Alleged members of organized crime killed six police officers and injured five others during an ambush on a southern Mexican highway, the Guerrero state government said Sunday.

The Jalisco State Attorney General's Office reported Saturday that at least 75 bags with human remains were found in clandestine graves located in the municipalities of Zapopan and Tlaquepaque. This was stated by prosecutor Gerardo Octavio Solis in a press conference.

Several points in Guanajuato, with Celaya as the epicenter, were taken over by violent criminal groups during the afternoon and night of this Saturday after the arrest of 26 alleged members of the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel.

In January 2017, Bermúdez took on numerous cases involving major drug trafficking charges, including the extradition to the United States of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán Loera, the founder of the Sinaloa cartel, who was handed over to the United States months after the judge's murder.

The U.S. government warned of the threat posed by pirates to ships and oil facilities in the southern Gulf of Mexico. The U.S. State Department updated its travel alerts to include these assaults, which it says have occurred in Campeche Bay where armed criminal groups attack and steal commercial vessels and offshore oil platforms and supply ships.

Armed men killed a federal judge in Mexico on Tuesday. The gunmen killed his wife, too. So far, the authorities have reported their deaths and condemned them. No further details have been given. The attack occurred before noon at his home in the capital of Colima State, on the northwest coast of the country. The judge's name was Uriel Villegas...

At a press conference held this morning in Veracruz, Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador denied the death of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes "El Mencho", leader of the New Generation Jalisco Cartel (CJNG).

The Mexican drug cartels have become stronger in Colombia, occupying spaces left by the FARC, a dominance that tends to worsen with the coronavirus pandemic, taken advantage of by these criminal organizations to increase their social control.

Netflix premieres the mini-series "The Search", based on the case of the death of the girl Paulette Gebara in 2010. This project comes after the success that was "Crime Diaries: The Candidate" and also "Crime Diaries: Night Out".

The President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, recalled on Monday the episode of the failed operation to arrest Ovido Guzmán, son of drug trafficker Joaquín Guzmán Loera, and reaffirmed that "it was the best thing", not to unleash a war in which more than 200 people would have died, according to army estimates.