Over 100 municipal police officers in Mexico's Guanajuato state have been dismissed for their alleged links to the Jalisco cartel and the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel.
An improvised explosive device detonated in the city of Irapuato in Guanajuato state. The device was an apparent booby trap, and its explosion wounded a detective and a forensic examiner while they were investigating a crime scene.
Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei was at an event in the western city of Huehuetenango on Saturday, two miles from where soldiers were had a gun battle with Mexican cartel fighters.