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Cartel violence in Tijuana continues with no end in sight as 11 killings were registered in a 24-hour period earlier this week. The deaths brought the number of homicides to 650 in 2018, according to government statistics as reported by local media. Authorities reported more than 100 homicides during the month of April.

A former Mexican municipal police officer and two prior soldiers were identified as the cartel hitmen responsible for a deadly attack against active officers over the weekend in Chihuahua.

A deadly April in Chihuahua has so far left six police officers dead and eight wounded in at least seven attacks.

The discovery of six bodies in shallow graves in the tourist city of Ensenada set off a forensic investigation to identify the victims. Officials made the discovery on April 10 and 11, 2018, in an unpopulated area between El Saizal and Maneadero according to the State Attorney General’s Office.

Cartel violence continues in Cancun with nine murdered in a 24-hour period.

Cartel violence in Tijuana continues at an alarming rate in 2018 with 549 homicides registered in the first three months, according to government statistics.

Cartel violence in Cancun continues in 2018 with 98 homicides registered in the first three months of the year.

Two alleged Sinaloa Cartel hitmen were captured on March 29 in rural Compuertas Carejey near Calexico, California.

Nine kidnapping victims were rescued but a state police commander and three cartel gunmen were killed during an operation in the Mexican coastal state of Nayarit last week.

A human smuggling operation was busted in Phoenix which resulted in at least 30 illegal immigrants being detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement during a raid on March 27.

Two former police officers from Ciudad Madera, Chihuahua, were arrested for weapons and drug violations on Sunday in Namiquipa, according to the State Attorney General’s office.

The United States Embassy in Mexico City issued a new security alert which lifts the travel ban that prohibited government employees from traveling to Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo.

A ministerial police agent and administrative assistant for the Chihuahua State Prosecutor’s Office were shot and killed by suspected cartel gunmen while traveling in an unmarked vehicle in Ciudad Juarez on January 16, 2018. The city shares the same border with the sanctuary city of El Paso, Texas.

The vice president of the Association of Engineers in Mexico disputed a claim made by the Mexican Attorney General that there were 30 narco-tunnels found along the U.S.—Mexico Border between January 2010 to June 2017.

El Departamento de Estado de Estados Unidos está desperdiciando dólares de nuestros impuestos en México, en una serie de programas vinculados a la Iniciativa Mérida para combatir los cárteles y el tráfico de droga. Organizaciones criminales transnacionales (cárteles) establecidas en México prosperan cuando el Departamento de Estado de Estados Unidos equilibra las prioridades de las agencias policiales con preocupaciones diplomáticas, a menudo colocando a la política y la diplomacia por encima de prioridades como el desmantelamiento de las redes criminales que introducen drogas por la frontera hacia comunidades de Estados Unidos.

The U.S. State Department is wasting our tax dollars in Mexico on a series of programs tied to the Merida Initiative to battle cartels and drug trafficking. Transnational criminal organizations (cartels) based in Mexico thrive as the U.S. State Department balances U.S. law enforcement agencies’ priorities with diplomatic concerns, often placing politics and diplomacy above priorities such as dismantling the criminal networks pumping narcotics across the border into U.S. communities.

A police commander in the popular tourist port of Guaymas, Sonora, was assassinated as he drove his duty SUV along a local street.

A municipal court judge from Tijuana was arrested by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol on February 10, 2018, after he attempted to smuggle 38.75 pounds of cocaine into the U.S. at the San Ysidro Port of Entry, according to a recently released criminal complaint filed in the Southern District of California.

The United States Embassy in Mexico City issued a new security alert on Wednesday after receiving information of a threat in Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo.

Cartel gunmen stormed a private hospital in Cancun and executed a regional Gulf Cartel boss being treated for medical problems while on release from prison.

The United States Embassy in Mexico City issued a security alert on March 1, prohibiting all federal employees from boarding any tourist ferries operating between the popular vacation destinations of Cozumel and Playa del Carmen.

Seven U.S. citizens were injured by a bomb blast on a Mexican tourist ferry on February 21, 2018. A Mexican cartel allegedly claimed responsibility for the device, thereby making the bombing a possible act of narco-terrorism. The U.S. State Department issued a security alert confirming that an “explosive device” detonated on the ferry on February 21, and that two more “undetonated explosive” devices were found on another ferry in the area.

A major cartel methamphetamine lab was discovered near the U.S.-Mexico border approximately 20 miles south of California in a Mexican resort city. Mexican authorities discovered the lab in Rosarito, a destination popular with U.S. tourists.

The recent discovery of two bombs found attached to another tourist ferry on the island of Cozumel has sparked more fears of narco-terrorism in Mexico. The bomb discoveries come on the heels of a confirmed explosion caused by a bomb that ripped through a tourist passenger ferry last week in Playa del Carmen. A Mexican cartel claimed credit for the initial act of narco-terrorism.

Investigators in El Paso, Texas, arrested 17 alleged Mexican cartel-connected Barrio Azteca members after a 20-month investigation which culminated in a roundup this week in the “Safe City” of El Paso.

Baja California, bordering Arizona and California, leads all other Mexican states in homicide cases for January 2018.

Un cártel de drogas se atribuyó la responsabilidad de una explosión que arrasó con un ferry de pasajeros la semana pasada en Playa del Carmen. La explosión de Barcos Caribe, que ha estado viajando la ruta de Playa del Carmen-Cozumel desde 2015, experimentó una explosión violenta cuando los pasajeros desembarcaban.

A drug cartel claimed responsibility for an explosion that ripped through a passenger ferry last week in Playa del Carmen. The explosion on the Barcos Caribe, which has been running a Playa del Carmen-Cozumel route since 2015, experienced a violent blast as passengers were disembarking.

Cartel violence in Cancun continues in 2018 with 55 executions registered in the first 50 days of the year.

The deputy director of a municipal police agency in Chihuahua was arrested and is under investigation for kidnapping and aiding organized crime.

A total of 400 elements of the Mexican Army were dispatched to Tijuana to help crack down on the ongoing cartel violence that plagues the once-popular tourist destination.

A former Major League Baseball All-Star, 46-year-old Esteban Loaiza who was busted by California authorities for drug smuggling earlier this month, has been linked to the deadly Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG).

Multiple suspects have been arrested and 400 pounds of marijuana were seized in a west Phoenix raid early Wednesday. A Pinal County Sheriff’s Office investigation tracking drug and human smugglers’ armed scouts yielded the arrests of five suspects.

A journalist in Tijuana was found dead in his home Tuesday night with obvious signs of trauma apparently caused by a sharp-edged weapon.

A Mexican national who was deported three times pleaded guilty to federal charges stemming from an undercover DEA sting.

The Chihuahua state prosecutor’s office announced that two of the victims shot to death at a clandestine cockfight arena recently were ranking members of the Sinaloa Cartel.