2023
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- 1 January – 2023 Ciudad Juárez prison attack: Ten prison officers and four inmates are killed in an armed attack on a prison in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, in which 24 prisoners escape.[441]
- 3 January – Five gunmen and two members of the security forces are killed during a shootout while searching for 30 inmates who escaped two days earlier during an armed attack on a prison in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua.[442]
- 5 January – 2023 Sinaloa unrest: Ovidio Guzmán López, the son of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, is arrested in Culiacán, Sinaloa; fighting consequently breaks out between the Sinaloa cartel and the Mexican army.
- 26 February – Nuevo Laredo military shooting: Soldiers open fire on a pickup truck carrying unarmed civilians in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, killing five people, sparking protests and riots by local people.[443]
- 15 April – At least seven people are killed and another is injured during a mass shooting in La Palma resort in Cortazar, Guanajuato.[444]
- 10 May – Four people are killed during clashes at the Pharr–Reynosa International Bridge, on the Mexico–United States border, between police and suspected cartel members.[445]
- 20 May – Ensenada shootout: Gunmen open fire during a car racing show in Ensenada, Baja California, killing ten people and injuring nine others.[446]
- 1 June – Authorities find 45 bags containing human remains in Jalisco after seven people were reported missing in the state last week.[447]
- 27 June – Fourteen police employees are kidnapped by armed men in Chiapas while travelling on the Federal Highway 190 between Ocozocoautla and Tuxtla Gutiérrez.[448]
- 11 July – Suspected cartel members set off bombs targeting police officers in Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, Jalisco, killing six people (four officers and two civilians) and injuring 12 others.[449]
- 28 August – The government says that it has deployed 1,200 more troops to the state of Michoacán after reports of drug cartel violence over the weekend.[450]
- 7 September – Six civilians are shot dead on a fronton court near the downtown of Guadalupe, Zacatecas. Hours later other armed attacks leave two more people dead.[451][452]
- 16 September – Ovidio Guzmán López is extradited from Mexico to the United States on drug trafficking and money laundering charges.[453]
- 27 September – Authorities in the state of Nuevo León find at least twelve bodies dumped on roads near Monterrey, likely related to a drug cartel operating in Tamaulipas.[454]
- 28 September – Six teenagers who were kidnapped by a group of armed men a few days ago are found dead near Villanueva, Zacatecas.[455]
- 30 September – Two Morena party pollsters are killed and a third is kidnapped in Juárez, Chiapas. A note was left on the bodies from the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, threatening the government.[456]
- 23 October – At least 24 people, including twelve police officers, are killed in three separate mass shootings and ambushes by unidentified assailants in Coyuca de Benítez, Guerrero, and Tacámbaro, Michoacán.[457]
- 20 November – A shootout between Federal Police and armed civilians in Cuernavaca, Morelos, kills nine people, including two police officers.[458]
- 24 November – The security chief for the Sinaloa Cartel, Néstor Isidro Pérez Salas, is arrested in Culiacán, Sinaloa. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration had a US$3 million bounty for his arrest.[459]
- 12 December – Six people are killed in a shootout between cartel gunmen in Boquilla del Carmen, Zacatecas. Police and soldiers also find two people wounded, as well as one armed suspect and guns and a grenade.[460]
- 13 December – Six people are killed and two others are injured in a shootout between rival drug cartels in Villanueva, Zacatecas. After the encounter, authorities arrest a suspect and decommission five assault rifles, grenades and ammunition.[461]
- 17 December – Salvatierra massacre: Twelve people are killed during a mass shooting at a Christmas season party in Salvatierra, Guanajuato. Three others are killed and four injured at a bar in Tulum, Quintana Roo, while four people are killed in Salamanca, Guanajuato.[462]
- 28 December – La Familia Michoacana kidnaps 14 people from Texcaltitlán, state of Mexico, in retaliation for a previous incident in which 10 cartel members were killed by residents of the town.[463]
- 29 December – 2023 Ciudad Obregón shooting: Six people are killed and 26 others are injured in a mass shooting at a party in Ciudad Obregón, Sonora. The shooting's target, a cartel member, is among those killed.[464]
2024
[edit]- 14 May – Mass shooting resulted in 11 deaths, some of the victims being civilians, in Chicomuselo, in the state of Chiapas, near the border with Guatemala. The area is a trafficking route where the Sinaloa cartel and the Jalisco New Generation cartel are engaged in a turf war.[465]
- 25 July – Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, and Joaquín Guzmán López, son of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, were arrested by US Federal Agents shortly after landing at a private airfield outside El Paso, Texas.[466]
- 20 September – Infighting in the Sinaloa Cartel:– Clashes between rival factions of Sinaloa Cartel resulted in 53 deaths, while 51 people are still listed as missing. Clashes started on 9 September between the two main factions known as the El Chapitos and the El Mayos. As a result, schools in Culiacán were shut down and some restaurants and shops closed early.[467]
