Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Notes | |
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First Magdalena massacre | November 3, 1757 | Magdalena de Kino, Sonora | 31 | Seri people attack a village of Spanish inhabitants | |
Second Magdalena massacre | November 1776 | Magdalena de Kino, Sonora | unknown | All of Magdalena de Kino's residents died in an attack from the Seri people | |
Wells of Baján massacre | March 21, 1811 | Wells of Baján, Coahuila | 40 | ||
Goliad massacre | March 27, 1836 | Goliad County, Texas | 342 | 465 prisoners. 28 escaped, 20 spared as workers, 75 spared as unarmed captives. | |
Dawson massacre | September 17, 1842 | near San Antonio de Bexar, Texas | 36 | 15 captured and 36 killed out of a total of 54 Texan men. | |
Black bean episode | March 25, 1843 | Saltillo, Coahuila | 17 | Mexicans tell Texian and American diplomats that 1/10 of the prisoners they captured would die. They force Texians to choose out of a random bowl of beans, and those who chose a black bean were shot. | |
1846 Monterrey massacre | September 23, 1846 | Monterrey, Nuevo León | ~60 | Ampudia ordered the white flag of surrender to be flown. Many American troops, especially the Texas Rangers ran about looting and burning houses, raping women, and killing entire families of Monterrey.[1] | |
1847 Monterrey massacre | January 4, 1847 | Monterrey, Nuevo León | ~50 | Texas volunteers blamed the Mexicans for the death of several of their companions in the occupied Monterrey. Consequently, American troops began shooting all civilians they encountered. The Houston Telegraph and Register, citing military sources reported over 50 killed.[2] | |
Saint Patrick's Battalion massacre | September 10–13, 1847 | Chapultepec, Mexico City | 50 | 50 surrendered Irish volunteers who fought as part of the Mexican Army against the United States in the Mexican–American War, collectively known as Saint Patrick's battalion were killed by the U.S. Army. | |
Massacre at Janos | March 5, 1851 | Janos, Chihuahua | Unknown | ||
Crabb massacre | April 1–8, 1857 | Caborca, Sonora | 84 | 84 killed out of a total of 85 American men. | |
Mazocoba massacre | January 18, 1900 | Guaymas, Sonora | ~400 | Also known as the Battle of Mazocoba | |
June 1, 1906 | Cananea, Sonora | 23 | 22 wounded | ||
Río Blanco strike | January 7 and 8, 1907 | Río Blanco, Veracruz | 50 to 70 | Federal troops put down rioting textile workers | |
Torreón massacre | May 15, 1911 | Torreón, Coahuila | 300 | Chinese Mexicans were targeted | |
San Pedro de la Cueva massacre | December 2, 1915 | San Pedro de la Cueva, San Pedro de la Cueva Municipality, Sonora | 91 | During the Mexican Revolution, on the morning of December 2, 1915, after the disastrous campaign of his army in the state of Sonora, Pancho Villa angrily arrived in San Pedro de la Cueva and ordered the mass execution of all the residents of the town. He blamed them for the deaths of five of his men. An outpost under the command of one of her colonels, Margarito Orozco, had apprehended 300 men, women and children, training them in front of the church. When Villa ordered his officers to initiate the executions, Colonel Macario Bracamontes, who was active in his ranks, convinced him to spare the lives of a hundred women and children. Immediately, the rest of the prisoners, who numbered 112 men, were lined up against one of the walls of the Catholic church to be put under arms; at the beginning of the executions, the village priest, Andrés A. Flores Quesney, pleaded three times for the lives of the condemned, including his father, but Villa ended up killing him with a shot. The killing continued.[3] [4] [5] [6] | |
Santa Isabel massacre | January 10, 1916 | near Santa Isabel, Chihuahua | 18 | Villistas stopped a train near Santa Isabel, Chihuahua and killed eighteen American passengers from the ASARCO company of Tucson, Arizona.[7] [8] | |
Villa Milpa Alta massacre | October 15, 1916 | Milpa Alta, Mexico City | 150-200 | Massacre of 150 to 200 civilians, including children, perpetrated by Constitutional Army during the Mexican Revolution[9] | |
1935 Revolution Day Zócalo Battle | November 20, 1935 | Zócalo, Mexico City | 3 | 50 Wounded, a violent conflict that broke out during the Revolution Day festival of 1935 at the Zócalo between members of the Revolutionary Mexicanist Action and multiple organizations associated with the Mexican Communist Party. | |
León massacre | January 2, 1946 | León, Guanajuato | 30-100 | Federal Troops called in by the Governor of the State of Guanajuato, fired into a crowd of demonstrators, killing at least 40 Up to 100 people[10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] | |
La Alameda massacre | July 7, 1952 | Mexico City | 200-500[16] | Massacre of Henriquis protesters who were protesting against Fraud And Irregularities in the 1952 presidential elections by the Mexican army.[17] [18] | |
San Luis Potosí massacre | September 15, 1961 | San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí | Unknown | [19] | |
Cosalá masacre | December 1967 | Cosalá, Sinaloa | 7 | A drunken Mexican soldier killed six people in Cosalá, Mexico. The soldier shot dead three other soldiers, the wife of a soldier, and two other people, before being killed himself.[20] | |
San Miguel Canoa Massacre | September 14, 1968 | village of San Miguel Canoa, Puebla | 4 | A right-wing priest incited a mob of villagers to attack five mountain climbers who he believed were communists, 3 wounded[21] | |
Tlatelolco massacre | October 2, 1968 | Mexico City | 44-400 | Government troops massacred between 44 (officially) and 400 (according to human rights activists, CIA documents and independent investigations) students 10 days before the 1968 Summer Olympics taking place in Mexico City, and then tried to wash the blood away, along with evidence of the massacre. | |
Huehuetlán el Chico massacre | February 15, 1969 | Huehuetlán el Chico, Puebla | 18[22] | Murder of peasants from Huehuetlán el Chico who were protesting against a mayor[23] [24] | |
Monte de Chila massacre | January 28, 1970 | Monte Chila, Jopala, Puebla | 80 - 324 | Massacre of indigenous Totonac, perpetrated by the Mexican army, It is estimated that around 324 people died in the massacre, including children, women, elderly people and men; However, there are no official figures[25] [26] | |
Corpus Christi massacre | June 10, 1971 | Mexico City | 120 | Also known as "El Halconazo", a student march got brutally attacked by a shock group called Los Halcones | |
Huitzotlaco Massacre | May 14, 1977 | Huitzotlaco, Atlapexco, Hidalgo | 3 | Murder of 3 peasants by gunmen hired by caciques, 12 Wounded[27] [28] [29] | |
October 10, 1977 | Guadalajara, Jalisco | 14 | 14 inmates murdered and seven injured.[30] | ||
Tzacuala massacre | January 21, 1980 | Tzacuala, Huautla, Hidalgo | 4 | 4 peasants killed in Ambush in a village in Tzacauala.[31] [32] | |
Golonchán Viejo massacre | June 15, 1980 | Golonchán Viejo, Sitalá, Chiapas | 12 | Armed civilians and soldiers murdered at least 12 Tzeltal peasants. 40 Wounded[33] [34] | |
Tula massacre | January 14, 1982 | Atotonilco de Tula, Hidalgo | 13 | 13 tortured bodies were found at Tula, Hidalgo, Mexico at the time of Arturo Durazo Moreno Administration[35] | |
Pantepec massacre | June 2, 1982 | Pantepec, Puebla | 27 | Massacre of 27 Totonac and Tepehuán indigenous peasants by municipal police, white guards and hired killers.[36] [37] | |
Centro Penitenciario Michoacán riot | July 20, 1988 | Michoacán | 10 | 13 Wounded[38] [39] | |
Christine nightclub shootout | November 8, 1992 | Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco | 6-20 | Members of the Sinaloa Cartel (according to some sources accompanied by elements of the state's judicial police) attacked the Disco Christine in Puerto Vallarta, leaving a balance of 6 people dead and 3 injured[40] [41] [42] [43] | |
Aguas Blancas massacre | June 28, 1995 | Aguas Blancas, Guerrero | 17 | Peasant protestors demanding drinking water, schools, hospitals, and roads were shot by motorized police | |
San Pedro Nixtalucum Massacre | March 14, 1997 | San Pedro Nixtalucum, El Bosque, Chiapas | 4 | The State Police assault civilians sympathetic to the EZLN, resulting in 4 deaths, 29 wounded, 27 detained and 300 displaced[44] [45] [46] | |
Max Fim restaurant shooting | August 3, 1997 | Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua | 6 | 3 Wounded[47] [48] [49] [50] | |
Acteal massacre | December 22, 1997 | Chenalhó, Chiapas | 45 | Massacre carried out by paramilitary forces of 45 people attending a prayer meeting of indigenous townspeople, who were members of the pacifist group Las Abejas ("The Bees"), in the village of Acteal, municipality of Chenalhó, in the Mexican state of Chiapas. | |
El Charco massacre | June 7, 1998 | Town of El Charco, Ayutla de los Libres, Guerrero | 11 | 11 people were killed while sleeping in the local school, Caritino Maldonado by soldiers[51] [52] [53] | |
El Sauzal massacre | September 17, 1998 | El Sauzal, Baja California | 19 | a Command of armed men arrives at the El Rodeo farm in Ensenada, and executes three entire families 19 people were killed and 2 were seriously wounded[54] [55] [56] [57] [58] [59] [60] [61] [62] [63] | |
El Limoncito de Alayá Massacre | February 14, 2001 | El Limoncito de Alayá, Cosalá, Sinaloa | 12 | Tijuana Cartel gunmen try to kill drug lord Javier Torres Félix and his brother Manuel at El Limoncito de Alayá, a farm in the municipality of Cosalá, Sinaloa After failing to find the two, the gunmen sought revenge by killing twelve residents of the area.3 Wounded[64] [65] [66] [67] | |
San Cristóbal Attack | May 6, 2002 | San Cristóbal, Ecatepec | 2 | A desperate mechanic Jose Luis Nieto Avila runs over several children and teachers at the Gabriela Mistral Daycare Center, where five-year-old Adriana Martínez and three-year-old Rodrigo Reyes lost their lives. 22 Wounded [68] [69] [70] [71] | |
2003 shootout Nuevo Laredo | August 1, 2003 | Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas | 3 | 6 Wounded | |
San Jerónimo de Juárez Massacre | July 31, 2005 | San Jerónimo de Juárez, Guerrero | 12 | 2 Wounded. At least 11 people were murdered in the coastal municipality of San Jerónimo de Juárez by a former military man who was apparently drugged, who was eventually shot and wounded. lynched by the villagers[72] [73] [74] [75] [76] [77] [78] [79] | |
2006 civil unrest in San Salvador Atenco | May 3 to 4, 2006 | San Salvador Atenco, State of Mexico | 2 | 200-300 Wounded[80] [81] | |
Río Bravo Ambush | November 29, 2007 | Río Bravo, Tamaulipas | 6 | A Mexican politician Juan Antonio Guajardo and five companions were murdered in an ambush in Río Bravo [82] | |
La Marquesa massacre | September 12, 2008 | Ocoyoacac, State of Mexico | 24 | 24 bodies are found at a national park called La Marquesa; all bodies were shot and showed signs of torture[83] [84] [85] [86] [87] [88] [89] [90] [91] [92] | |
La Mesa prison riots | September 13–18, 2008 | Tijuana, Baja California | 22 | 12 Wounded | |
Morelia grenade attacks | September 15, 2008 | Morelia, Michoacán | 8 | 132 Wounded. A series of grenades are detonated in crowds gathered to celebrate Independence Day. | |
2009 Ciudad Juárez prison riot | March 4, 2009 | Cerezo state prison, Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua | 20 | 15 Wounded | |
Ciudad Juárez rehab center attack | September 2, 2009 | El Aliviane centre, Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua | 18 | 3 Wounded | |
Balderas metro station shooting | September 18, 2009 | Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City | 2 | A religious fanatic, Luiz Felipe Hernández, kills a civilian and a police officer at the Balderas station of the Metro Collective Transport System, 5 Wounded[93] | |
Villas de Salvárcar massacre | January 31, 2010 | Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua | 15 | Cartel members massacre 16 teenagers, outraging Ciudad Juarez residents. | |
Guerrero mass graves | June 2010 | Taxco, Guerrero | 55 | Cartels massacre civilians | |
2010 Chihuahua shootings | June 10, 2010 | Second floor, Templo Cristiano Fe y Vida (Christian Faith and Life Temple), Chihuahua | 19 | 4 Wounded | |
Nuevo León mass graves | June 25, 2010 | Nuevo León | ~70 | Bodies found in mass graves across Nuevo León | |
Ciudad Victoria ambush | June 28, 2010 | Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas | 7 | The Candidate of PRI Rodolfo Torre Cantú was murdered along with six of those in his entourage by agents of a drug cartel | |
2010 Saric shootout | July 1, 2010 | Sáric, Sonora | 21 | 6 Wounded | |
2010 Torreón Massacre | July 18, 2010 | Torreón, Coahuila | 17-18 | 18 injured[94] [95] [96] [97] [98] [99] | |
2010 San Fernando massacre | August 24, 2010 | San Fernando, Tamaulipas | 72 | 72 undocumented migrants were killed by Los Zetas | |
Tepic Massacre | October 27, 2010 | Tepic, Nayarit | 15 | The Armed group that descended from some trucks shot down to 15 young people who worked at a car wash in the Lázaro Cárdenas neighborhood in the south of the city.[100] [101] [102] [103] [104] | |
2010 Puebla oil pipeline explosion | December 19, 2010 | San Martín Texmelucan de Labastida, Puebla | 29 | 52 Wounded | |
Allende massacre | March 18 to 20, 2011 | Allende, Coahuila | 42-300+ | ||
Triple Murder of Journalists in Monterrey | March 25, 2011 | Monterrey, Nuevo León | 3 | By Los Zetas | |
San Fernando massacre | April 6, 2011 | San Fernando, Tamaulipas | 193 | Gruesome murder by Los Zetas of 193 travelers using barbaric, gladiator style tactics. | |
Battle of Ruíz | May 25, 2011 | Ruiz, Nayarit | 29 | 4 Wounded. one of the most violent clashes between criminal organizations in Mexico between Sinaloa Cartel and Los Zetas. | |
Coahuila mass graves | June 3, 2011 | Piedras Negras, Coahuila | 38 | Mass grave covered up by drug catels | |
Durango massacres | April 2011 | Durango, Durango | 340 | Various mass graves discovered between April 2011 and February 2012. | |
Monterrey casino attack | August 25, 2011 | Monterrey, Nuevo León | 52 | Drug cartel set a casino on fire | |
Altamira prison brawl | January 4, 2012 | Altamira, Tamaulipas | 31 | ||
Apodaca prison riot | February 19, 2012 | Apodaca, Nuevo León | 44 | ||
Nuevo Laredo massacres | April 17 - May 4, 2012 | Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas | 37 | Various massacres between the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas having a turf war | |
2012 Boca del Río murder of journalists | May 6, 2012 | Boca Del Río, Veracruz | 4 | ||
Cadereyta Jiménez massacre | May 13, 2012 | Cadereyta Jiménez, Nuevo León | 49 | Los Zetas murder Mexican civilians, either Gulf Cartel members or US-bound immigrants. | |
San Luis Potosí massacre | August 9, 2012 | San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí (state) | 14 | The Mexican police found 14 dead bodies stuffed inside a SUV on 9 August 2012 along a highway in the city of San Luis Potosí | |
La Pila Prison riot | April 27, 2013 | La Pila, San Luis Potosí | 13 | 65 wounded[105] [106] [107] [108] [109] [110] | |
Lagos de Moreno massacre | July 7, 2013 | Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco | 6 | kidnapping and assassination of 6 students by CJNG[111] | |
Loma Blanca Massacre | September 22, 2013 | Loma Blanca, Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua | 10 | Murder of 10 people celebrating the victory of a baseball team by gunmen[112] [113] | |
Tlatlaya massacre | June 30, 2014 | San Pedro Limón, Tlatlaya, Michoacán | 22 | 22 civilians executed by government troops.[114] [115] [116] | |
Iguala massacre | September 26 - October 5, 2014 | Iguala, Guerrero | 43 | Mass kidnapping and murder of male students from Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College | |
Apatzingán massacre | January 5, 2015 | Apatzingán, Michoacán | 16 | 16 unarmed civilians killed by federal police outside Apatzingán city hall.[117] [118] [119] [120] | |
2015 Ocotlán ambush | March 19, 2015 | Ocotlán, Jalisco | 11 | 5 Wounded | |
2015 San Sebastián del Oeste ambush | April 6, 2015 | San Sebastián del Oeste, Jalisco | 15 | A convoy of the Jalisco State Police was ambushed by suspected members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) in a mountain road in San Sebastián del Oeste, Jalisco. Fifteen policemen were killed and five were wounded | |
1 May 2015 Jalisco attacks | May 1, 2015 | Jalisco | 18 | ||
Tanhuato–Ecuandureo shootout | May 22, 2015 | Tanhuato, Michoacán | 22+ to 42 | [121] [122] | |
Narvarte case | July 31, 2015 | Colonia Narvarte, Mexico City | 5 | Murder of Photographer and Journalist Rubén Espinosa Along with Four Women[123] [124] | |
Topo Chico prison riot | February 10–11, 2016 | Monterrey, Nuevo León | 49[125] to 52+[126] | Riot most deadly in Mexican penal history | |
2016 conflict in Nochixtlán | June 19, 2016 | Asunción Nochixtlán, Oaxaca | 8 | 108 Wounded | |
Colonia El Triunfo massacre | April 29, 2018 | El Triunfo, Iztapalapa, Mexico City | 5 | 5 men are shot dead on El Triunfo street in Iztapalapa[127] [128] | |
Salamanca nightclub shooting | March 9, 2019 | Salamanca, Guanajuato | 15 | ||
Minatitlán shooting | April 19, 2019 | Minatitlán, Veracruz | 14 | [129] | |
Uruapan massacre | August 8, 2019 | Uruapan, Michoacán | 19 | 19 Bodies found in three parts of the city | |
Coatzacoalcos nightclub fire | August 27, 2019 | Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz | 31[130] -32[131] | 31-32 people die in an arson attack on a bar in Coatzacoalcos, by Jalisco New Generation Cartel | |
2019 Western Michoacán clashes | August 30, 2019 | Tepalcatepec, Michoacán | 9 | 11 Wounded | |
2019 Auililla police massacre | October 14, 2019 | Aguililla, Michoacán | 13[132] | A convoy of five police trucks carrying a combined total of 42 police officers were dispatched to serve a warrant at a home in El Aguaje when over 30 drug carte gunmen who lied in wait ambushed them with various types of firearms, killing 13 and injuring 9 of them.[133] [134] | |
LeBarón and Langford families massacre | November 4, 2019 | Near Bavispe, Sonora | 9 | Gunmen suspected of being drug cartel members ambushed three vehicles occupied by Mormon U.S.-Mexican dual citizens on a highway in Sonora, killing nine, including six children. The cars and the burned bodies of the victims were found by the police.[135] | |
2019 Villa Unión shootout | November 30, 2019 | Villa Unión, Coahuila | 28 | 8 Wounded | |
Cieneguillas prison riots | December 31, 2019 January 2, 2020 | Near Cieneguillas, Zacatecas | 17 | Using weapons smuggled into the prison, the inmates rioted with 16 being killed in the first riot on 31 December and an additional inmate being killed in the second riot on January 2.[136] | |
Chilapa massacre | January 17, 2020 | Chilapa, Guerrero | 10 | After passing an illegal checkpoint, a group of musicians were ambushed by Los Ardillos hitmen, killing the 10 members of the caravan. The musicians were returning from a performance in the town of Tlayelpan[137] [138] [139] [140] [141] | |
Madera ambush | April 3, 2020 | near Chuhuichupa, Ciudad Madera, Chihuahua | 19 | 19 people are killed in a shootout between rival cartels in Madera, Chihuahua. Local media reports the violence was part of a conflict over turf by the Juarez Cartel and the rival Sinaloa Cartel | |
Colima police massacre | May 2020 | Colima | 7 | Kidnapping and Murder of Police[142] [143] [144] | |
Irapuato massacres | June 6, - July 1, 2020 | Irapuato, Guanajuato | 38 | 5 Wounded | |
Camargo massacre | January 2021 | Camargo, Tamaulipas | 19 | On January 23, 2021, 19 bodies were discovered near the Mexico–United States border, the victims are said to be migrants and were shot and set on fire.[145] | |
Tonalá Massacre | February 27, 2021 | Tonala, Jalisco | 11 | Eleven people were killed and at least two wounded when unidentified armed assailants attacked a Party.[146] [147] | |
Battle of Doctor Coss | March 13 to 14, 2021 | Doctor Coss, Nuevo León | 10 | ||
Coatepec Harinas attack | March 18, 2021 | Coatepec Harinas, State of Mexico | 13 | Gunmen ambushed a police convoy, killing 13 police officers.[148] | |
Capture of Aguililla | April 6–28, 2021 | Aguililla, Michoacan | 27 | 8 Wounded | |
Reynosa Attacks | June 19, 2021 | Reynosa, Tamaulipas | 19 | 19 people are killed, including 15 civilians.[149] [150] | |
Guerrero executions | September 2021 | Guerrero | 15-20 | Execution of approximately 15-20 suspected members of the Guerreros Unidos, including two while being filmed, by the armed group Los Tlacos[151] [152] [153] [154] [155] [156] | |
Tarecuato massacre | November 11, 2021 | Tarecuato, Tangamandapio, Michoacán | 11 | 11 gunmen killed 11 indigenous people.[157] [158] [159] [160] [161] | |
Las Tinajas massacre | March 27, 2022 | Las Tinajas, Zinapécuaro, Michoacán | 20 | 17 men and 3 women killed at a cockfight by members of a rival faction of Jalisco New Generation Cartel.[162] [163] | |
Celaya massacre | May 23, 2022 | Celaya, Guanajuato | 11 | A group of about 15 men shot staff and guests at a hotel. | |
Rayón massacre | August 5, 2022 | Rayón, San Luis Potosí | 13 | A confrontation between elements of the Civil Guard and armed men left 13 criminals dead and two arrested in Rayón, San Luis Potosi[164] [165] [166] | |
Tuzantla shooting | August 24, 2022 | Tuzantla, Michoacán | 8 | eight people were killed in the city of Tuzantla, Michoacán, in a firefight between rival factions of La Familia Michoacana | |
Yecapixtla Shooting | September 1, 2022 | Yecapixtla, Morelos | 5 | Five people including a former mayor, are killed and several others are injured after a mass shooting at a soccer field in Yecapixtla, Morelos.[167] [168] | |
San Miguel Totolapan massacre | October 5, 2022 | San Miguel Totolapan, Guerrero | 20 | 2 Wounded | |
2023 Ciudad Juárez prison attack | January 1, 2023 | Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua | 19 | Ten guards, seven inmates, and two gunmen were killed while 13 other people were wounded in an armed attack on a prison, At least 30 inmates escaped. | |
2023 Sinaloa unrest | January 5–13, 2023 | Sinaloa | 30 | The army arrests Ovidio Guzmán López, the son of incarcerated drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, in Culiacán, Sinaloa. Unrest ensues in the state, with schools and airports closed. Ten soldiers, a police officer and 19 cartel members are killed. 52 Wounded[169] | |
Nuevo Laredo military shooting | February 26, 2023 | Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas | 5 | Soldiers open fire on a pickup truck carrying unarmed civilians in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, killing five people and injuring 1, sparking protests and riots by local people | |
El Capire ambush | March 17, 2023 | El Capire, Guerrero | 7 | ambush led by criminal group La Familia Michoacana[170] [171] | |
Ciudad Juárez migrant center fire | March 27, 2023 | Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua | 40 | Central and South American detainees at a migrant center in Ciudad Juárez deliberately set fire to their mattresses, killing 40 people and injuring 27 others | |
Ensenada shootout | May 20, 2023 | Ensenada, Baja California | 10 | Ten people were killed and another ten wounded in an off-road vehicle rally in the San Vicente area of the city by members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel and the Sinaloa Cartel | |
Beer House Cantina bar Arson | July 22, 2023 | San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora | 13 | Customer expelled from bar sets fire to the place and kills 13 people[172] [173] [174] [175] | |
Coyuca de Benítez shooting | October 23, 2023 | Coyuca de Benítez, Guerrero | 13 | 13 police officers killed in ambush in Coyuca de Benitez[176] [177] [178] | |
Salvatierra massacre | December 17, 2023 | Salvatierra, Guanajuato | 11 | 11 people are killed during a mass shooting at a Christmas season party in Salvatierra, Guanajuato. Three others are killed and four injured at a bar in Tulum, Quintana Roo, while four are killed in Salamanca, Guanajuato.[179] [180] | |
2023 Ciudad Obregón shooting | 29 December 2023 | Ciudad Obregón, Sonora | 8 | Eight people are killed and 26 others are injured in a mass shooting at a party in Ciudad Obregón, Sonora. The shooting's target, a cartel member, is among those killed.[181] [182] | |
San Juan del Río massacre | January 9, 2024 | San Juan del Río, Querétaro | 9 | Nine bodies were found on a road in San Juan del Río, Querétaro[183] [184] | |
Acultzingo massacre | 23 February 2024 | Acultzingo, Veracruz | 7 | [185] [186] [187] |