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Security & Strategic Review - May 2015 (ISSN 1741-4202)

MEXICO: Setbacks in three of the most violent states

In the run-up to the 7 June elections the federal government’s efforts to restore order in Mexico’s main violence hotspots suffered setbacks in Jalisco, where gunmen of the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) shot down an army helicopter, killing nine, in neighbouring Michoacán, where the killing of 42 CJNG gunmen fuelled rumours of another Tlatlaya, and in Guerrero, where a raid by armed civilians associated with one of two rival gangs, unhindered by soldiers and federal police, is said to have led to mass ‘disappearances’.

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