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The timeline of some of the most relevant events in the Mexican drug war is set out below. Although violence between drug cartels had been occurring for three decades, the Mexican government held a generally passive stance regarding cartel violence through the 1980s and early 2000s.
2011, July 23: Mexican president Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, as well as peace and human rights activists including the poet Javier Sicilia, gather in Mexico City to initiate a national discussion on the country’s military-led strategy against the drug cartels and the victims of the drug war.
6 paź 2010 · Mexico's most-wanted drug lord, he builds a coalition of drug gangs from the western state of Sinaloa and vows to take control of Mexico's vast drug trade.
The timeline of some of the most relevant events in the Mexican drug war is set out below. Although violence between drug cartels had been occurring for three decades, the Mexican government held a generally passive stance regarding cartel violence through the 1980s and early 2000s.
9 paź 2012 · Drug violence kills around 6,300 people across Mexico over the year. August – Hundreds of thousands join marches across Mexico to protest against increasingly brutal drugs-related...
14 sty 2010 · Mexico's most-wanted drug lord, he heads a coalition of drug gangs from Sinaloa state and vows after his escape to take control of Mexico's drugs trade.
Mexico’s Mass Disappearances and the Drug War (Ayotzinapa: The Missing 43 Students) : Sources for the Drug War Timeline 1930-2015 This research guide was created after the exhibition Ayotzinapa: We Will Not Wither, held at Memorial Library from September 16 to October 30, 2015.
