Chihuahua Mexico Drug Cartels

The attack happened monday near rancho la mora on the border between sonora and chihuahua in a remote mountainous area where the sinaloa cartel has been engaged in a turf war with another gang.

Chihuahua mexico drug cartels. The objective is to besiege ciudad juárez to concentrate forces and saturate the area to confront the three cartels already operating in the city. In recent months violence between warring cartels in the pine covered mountains of chihuahua around the towns of san juanito and creel is as tied to the illegal wood trade as it is to local drug sales and routes. According to a february report by. Coordinated operation chihuahua or formerly known as joint operation chihuahua is a military and federal police operation started in 2008 by the mexican army and policía federal preventiva.

Nearly three quarters of the bodies were found in the states of sinaloa jalisco colima sonora and chihuahua all notorious for the presence of drug traffickers or organized crime. Border from el paso texas. The melee kicked off late friday when gangsters aligned with el chapo s sinaloa cartel exchanged gunfire with drug traffickers from the juarez cartel and other gangs in the state of chihuahua. Its last known.

A clash in las pomas in october left two people dead and forced the closure of. The sinaloa and juárez drug cartels are currently engaged in a turf war over madera and the surrounding region. The cartel is one of several drug trafficking organizations that have been known to decapitate their rivals mutilate their corpses and dump them in public places to instill fear not only into the general public but also into local law enforcement and their rivals the sinaloa cartel. The state prosecutors office said on saturday that 18 corpses two.

A major shootout between rival drug gangs has killed 19 people in the northern mexico border state of chihuahua officials say.