ACLED Regional Overview – Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean (17 - 23 April 2021)
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Last week in Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean, there continued to be a high level of demonstrations. In Nicaragua, police attacked and arrested members of the opposition amid protests to commemorate the third anniversary of the 2018 anti-government uprising. In Honduras, taxi and bus drivers protested, demanding subsidies and lower gasoline prices to cope with the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic. In Belize, teachers and public servants protested against a 10% cut in public workers’ salaries. Finally, in Mexico, clashes between criminal groups and state forces intensified in the states of Sonora and Michoacan.
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After smuggling more than 1,100 pounds of crystal meth into Miami, the scheme of six members of a Mexican cartel has been revealed in court documents, as they made their way through Texas concealing the drugs inside in concrete and even dissolving it in buckets of paint.
Based on the announcement of the United States Attorney s office for the southern district of Florida, it is the largest methamphetamine seizure in Miami-Dade County history.
The alleged leader of the United Cartel, Adalberto Fructuoso Comparan-Rodriguez, also known as Fruto, who was also a former Mayor in a town in Mexico, was arrested in Guatemala along with the smuggling s co-conspirator Alfonso Rustrian after the U.S. requested for their detention in Guatemala on March 30, 2021.
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Cartel leader tortured and killed by rivals in major blow to Mexico s most brutal gang
Members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel [CJNG] were targeted by the United Cartel. Thugs afterwards circulated chilling videos of the attack in which they celebrated their victory
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