Webthe country’s powerful drug cartels have long staged targeted assassinations of mayoral and other local candidates who threaten their control.

Webless than two weeks into his term, on december 11, calderon launches the country’s militarized war on drug cartels by sending more than 7,000 soldiers to quell.

Mexico's brutal drug war claims thousands of lives every year, as powerful trafficking groups battle it out for territory and influence.

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Webtoday, the two largest and most powerful cartels, the sinaloa cartel and the jalisco new generation cartel (cjng), are jostling with smaller rivals such as the.

Webconflicts between rival drug cartels and government forces in mexico have claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, leading to violent social breakdown across the.

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