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A journalist was gunned down in a bar near Playa del Carmen on Friday night. José Guadalupe Chan Dzib was directly targeted inside “La Baticueva” located in the municipality of Felipe Carrillo Puerto. Chan Dzib was a police reporter for Playa News Aqui y Ahora and other media outlets.

May 2018 became the bloodiest in the history of Mexico with 2,890 registered homicides nationwide.

The El Paso-Juarez Metropolitan Border Area registered 22 murders in a 24-hour time span this past weekend.

The police commander of Grupo de Operaciones Especiales (GOE), a special operations unit from the beach city of Rosarito, was murdered outside the popular tourist nightspot Macroplaza during the early morning hours of June 20.

A former police commissioner and a commander were arrested for the kidnapping and execution-style murders of six officers under their command in Puebla.

Four men with ties to Mexico face federal charges involving the seizure of approximately 20 pounds of fentanyl in Clark County, Ohio, by members of the Miami Valley Bulk Smuggling Task Force.

The Tribal Governor of the Tohono O’odham in Sonora, Mexico, placed the blame for the mass exodus of the population from tribal lands south of the U.S. border on drug cartels.

A California narcotics officer arrested in May for suspected ties with the Mexican Mafia and Armenian organized crime is now facing additional charges after federal prosecutors filed one count each of soliciting a bribe, obstructing justice by helping a contact avoid arrest, and making false statements to investigators.

At a press conference held on Friday, Pedro Guevara Pérez of the Federal Prosecutors Office (Procurador General de la República or PGR) announced the arrest and detainment of a suspect identified as José Antonio “N,” a member of the Sinaloa Cartel, after allegedly found in possession of 505 kilograms of cocaine and nearly a kilo of methamphetamine in Sinaloa.

A vehicle inspection of two pickup trucks by the Mexican Army security checkpoint on Wednesday led to the discovery of 1.5 tons (3,064 pounds or 1,390 KG) of hard drugs consisting of fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine in Ojos Negros, located in the municipality of Ensenada.

In less than six months, Tijuana registered over 1,000 homicides for the year as of Friday.

Four people were wounded inside a restaurant in the Mexican beach town of Rosarito, a popular U.S. tourist destination on Tuesday, June 5, at approximately 2:30 pm.

The once peaceful tourist hotspot of Cancún lodged another deadly month of cartel-related violence with 50 homicides in May. The total number of murders for 2018 now sits at 207.

Reports indicate that cartel gunmen in the Mexican state of Guerrero killed 22 security elements consisting of 17 police officers from various agencies and five army personnel during the first five months of 2017. Guerrero is located in southwest Mexico and includes the coastal resort cities of Acapulco, Ixtapa, and Zihuatanejo.

As next month’s elections in Mexico approach, a disturbing trend continues with the government’s inability to provide basic security for politicians as the number of those assassinated exceeds 100.

Six cartel assassins belonging to the armed wing of the Juárez Cartel, known as “La Línea,” were captured in Juárez during two separate police operations in the El Paso-Juárez Metropolitan Border Area.

Four Los Aztecas assassins wanted for multiple attacks on Mexican police were captured on Saturday in Juárez, part of the greater El Paso-Juarez metropolitan area, after fleeing the state capital of Chihuahua from the armed wing of the Juárez Cartel, known as La Línea.

A total of nine people were murdered in less than 24 hours in Tijuana this weekend. Another kidnapping gang was arrested while a victim was rescued in the process.

A large police operation in Juarez, Mexico, led to the capture of the former leader of “Los Azteca’s” criminal gang, turned member of the armed wing of the Juarez Cartel, “’La Línea.” The Municipal Police of the border city of Juarez carried out the operation during the early morning hours of May 24, 2018.

The deputy state attorney general in Tijuana announced the arrests of five kidnappers and the rescue of one victim during a press conference.

Two former investigative police officers from the state attorney general’s office in Chihuahua were sentenced to 15 years this week and fined $23,017.00 pesos ($1,164.00 USD) for assisting organized crime.

The four remaining presidential candidates for Mexico participated in a second debate Sunday in Tijuana as cartel violence continued with eight more homicides registered 24 hours before the event.

The National Security Commissioner for Mexico, Renato Sales, confirmed the capture of Carlos Arturo Quintana, “El 80,” the leader of “La Línea”–the armed wing of the Juárez Cartel (Nuevo Cartel de Juárez) and one of the FBI’s most wanted fugitives.

At least 300 police agents and elements of the military were deployed to the once peaceful tourist beaches of Cancún, Playa del Carmen, and Rivera Maya to provide security against escalating cartel violence now impacting hotel zones.

The once peaceful Mexican beach hub in Ensenada continues to experience high levels of cartel killings as the murder count for 2018 reaches 100 with only four arrests in response.

A key regional Sinaloa Cartel boss was captured on Monday in Nogales, Sonora, by members of the Federal Police (AIC-PGR) and the Mexican Army.

Representatives of the state attorney general’s office in Chihuahua announced the return of the Mexican military, which will join forces with federal, state, and municipal police to quell local cartel violence.

Cartel gunmen attacked two municipalities in Chihuahua this past Sunday, leaving eight dead according to the state attorney general’s office.

A raid on a municipal police force in Central Mexico by the State Police (SSP), supported by the Mexican Marines (SEDENA) and State Attorney General’s Office (FGE) led to the discovery of 136 fake police officers.

A shocking cartel execution captured on security video by multiple hitmen in Mexico City sparked fears of escalating narco-violence.

Cartel killings in Tijuana continued at an alarming rate with 207 registered in April, bringing the total for 2018 to 758—a 67 percent increase over the same period in 2017.

Four homicide victims were discovered on Monday in the once peaceful tourist city of Ensenada, Baja California.

A cross border narco-tunnel leading into Calexico, California, from Mexicali was discovered shortly after 11 am on Sunday.

Cartel Violence continues in the beach resort hub of Cancún with the grisly discovery of five murder victims left inside an abandoned vehicle on Wednesday.

A series of five cartel attacks on state ministerial and municipal police occurred in less than 24 hours in Chihuahua last week, beginning after midnight on April 19.

Cartel killings are continuing at an alarming rate in Tijuana with 41 homicides registered since April 16—raising the total number for 2018 to 691.