A deadly bomb ambush of police in Mexico has endangered mothers who search for the missing
A drug cartel bomb attack that allegedly used a fake report of a mass grave to lure police into a deadly trap has had devastating collateral damage: It has led some authorities to abandon the volunteers who search for some of Mexicoโs 110,000 missing people.
In Mexico, cartels are hunting down police at their homes
The notoriously violent Jalisco cartel has responded to Mexico's โhugs, not bulletsโ policy with a policy of their own: the cartel kidnapped several members of an elite police force in the state of Guanajuato, tortured them to obtain names and addresses of fellow officers, and are now hunting down and killing police at their homes, on their days off, in front of their families.
In Mexico, women take the front lines as vigilantes
Many of the women vigilantes in the hamlet of El Terrero have lost sons, brothers or fathers in the fighting. In other towns nearby, residents have dug trenches across roadways leading into neighboring Jalisco state, to keep the attackers out. Garcia said he was run out of the town by Jalisco cartel gunmen because he refused to join the group. The vigilantes bitterly deny allegations they're part of a criminal gang, though they clearly see the Jalisco cartel as their foe. Sergio Garcia, a male member of El Terrero vigilante group, says his 15-year-old brother was kidnapped and killed by Jalisco.
Mexico's president turns attention to cartel-plagued states
MEXICO CITY President Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador is traveling to three of Mexicos most violent states this week to counter what many call a hands-off strategy toward drug cartels that has exacerbated tensions with state governors. I am going to these states because they have the toughest problems with violence and especially homicides, Lpez Obrador said. While Lpez Obrador points toward the opposition governors for the violence, the opposition cites his hands-off policy with cartels. But it may have become the epicenter of a much larger, titanic struggle between Mexicos two most powerful cartels: Jalisco and Sinaloa. Jalisco state has accounted for about 29% of all bodies pulled from clandestine burial pits since the start of Lpez Obradors administration.
Brazen ambush of Mexico City chief blamed on Jalisco cartel
A forensic investigator collects cartridges at the scene where the Mexican capital's police chief was attacked by gunmen in Mexico City, Friday, June 26, 2020. Three separate possible ambush points were set up on major thoroughfares, including one which wasnt used in the heart of Mexico City, one block from the Independence Monument. Lara said that of the suspects detained, one is Colombian and the other 11 are Mexicans from the capital and five states Jalisco, Guerrero, Nayarit, Chihuahua and Michoacan. But it remains to be seen whether the government will go after the Jalisco cartel they way it did the Zetas. Before being named Mexico City police chief, he spent several months as the mayors intelligence coordinator.
IMAGES: National Tequila Day
Casa Herradura, located in Amatitan, Jalisco, is one of Mexicos most historic and distinguished producers of tequila. In 1870, Felix Lopez officially registered the San Jose del Refugio hacienda as a producer of tequila and has since been the place of production for the Casa Herradura brands.