Alma Barragán was shot dead Tuesday while campaigning in Guanajuato, Mexico. She s the third nominee from the Citizen s Movement party who has been murdered in the last 15 days.
Gang warfare in northeastern Jalisco forces residents to flee their homes Jalisco and Sinaloa cartels are battling for supremacy
Published on Saturday, May 8, 2021
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Clashes between cells of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) and the Sinaloa Cartel have forced residents of Teocaltiche, Jalisco, to flee their homes.
Since Thursday, there have been several confrontations in the municipality, located 170 kilometers northeast of Guadalajara on Jalisco’s border with Zacatecas and Aguascalientes.
According to preliminary reports, a convoy of 18 vehicles emblazoned with the CJNG initials was in Teocaltiche on Thursday. The Jalisco cartel, generally considered Mexico’s most powerful and violent criminal organization, is fighting the Sinaloa Cartel for control of the municipality and surrounding area.
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For the fourth consecutive year, Mexico has dominated a list of the most violent cities in the world but smaller towns have shot up in the rankings, reflecting new hotspots where criminal groups are fighting for control.
The most violent place in the world in 2020 was Celaya, a city of around half a million people in the central state of Guanajuato, according to the report by a Mexican non-governmental organization, the Citizens Council for Public Security and Criminal Justice.
The Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) have been battling around Celaya over control of oil theft, drug trafficking and other criminal economies.
While unrest gripped much of Latin America in 2019, it was the coronavirus that took center stage and ripped through the region in 2020, upending everything
Despite some successes, Mexico still struggles with fuel theft
Pemex says fuel theft has decreased 92% in 2021 compared to 2018 739 3 minutes read Cartels like Los Zetas and the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel, as well as smaller community gangs, have been stealing resources from PEMEX, the Mexican state-owned petroleum company, for decades. (Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves)
Mexican authorities have seized 11 tanker trucks and recovered more than 178,400 gallons of stolen fuel from across the country since Jan. 1, 2021.
The most recent action occurred Thursday, when a tanker truck carrying 64,000 gallons of stolen hydrocarbons was stopped in Tabasco state in southern Mexico by the National Guard, an agency that functions as the nation’s federal police.