An unexploded bomb forced the evacuation of the airport in in Mexico’s violence-torn Ciudad Juárez, while a bomb threat cleared the border city’s courthouse as federal officials were holding a security meeting.
Convicted drug kingpin Miguel Caro Quintero AKA “Michael Jackson” was extradited to the US after eight years in a Mexican prison. With his brother Rafael, he is said to have led the Guadalajara Cartel.
Federal, state, and local law enforcement in California, Minnesota, and Maryland arrested 50 people who the US Justice Department claims are operatives of Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel.
Some 150 greeted the brothers Antonio and Héctor Cerezo Contreras as they left a prison in Mexico’s Morelos state, after eight years detainment on suspicion of ties to the Popular Revolutionary Army (EPR).
Some 500,000 Mexican bus and truck drivers and owners held a one-day strike Feb. 16, slowing freight deliveries and forcing many passengers to find alternative transportation in 17 of the country’s states.
Gunmen fired on the motorcade of José Reyes Baeza Terrazas, governor of the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua, as it stopped at an intersection in the state capital, killing a bodyguard.
Roberto Orduña Cruz, police chief in Mexico’s violence-torn Ciudad Juárez, quit after several officers were slain this week and narco gangs pledged to kill an officer every 48 hours until he resigned.
Protesters blocked the international bridges in Juárez, Reynosa and Nuevo Laredo to demand the Mexican army pull out of the violence-torn cities. But politicians said the protesters were paid by the cartels.
A team of gunmen in the southern Mexican state of Tabasco opened fire on the home of a state police officer and his extended family, killing 12 people, including six children.
Twenty-one were killed in a clash between the Mexican army and a kidnapping gang in northern Chihuahua state on Monday—and three more in a mopping-up operation on the gang’s ranch headquarters Friday.
Ex-solider Octavio Almanza Moreles AKA “El Gori 4” and six presumed members of the Zetas narco-paramilitary were arrested in the killing an army general who was aiding the Cancún police force.
President Trump announced that the US and Mexico have reached an agreement on a new trade deal called the United States-Mexico Trade Agreement, which will ultimately terminate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Trump called Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto from the White House to announce the new deal. Among a number of changes to NAFTA, both parties agreed to a provision that would require a significant portion of vehicles to be made in high-wage factories, a measure aimed to discourage factory jobs from leaving the US. Trump said he is in communication with Canada about a new trade deal, but is unsure if it will be part of the US-Mexico Trade Agreement. The Trump administration expects the new pact to be signed by the end of November. (Map: CIA)
