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Oscar Simei López Castillo, 13, died after armed men, believed to be drug-cartel members, crashed into their vehicle and opened fire on them in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas. The highway on which they were traveling was a stretch of road that rival drug gangs are fighting each other to control.

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Agents saw four subjects with automatic weapons on the Mexican riverbank who shot over 50 rounds at them. The boat was hit, but no one on board was injured, according to Border Patrol.

Criminal organizations are making huge profits and are orchestrating the surge of immigration from Central America.

Tijuana, right across the 'open border' with San Diego, is listed as the deadliest city in the world based on its 2018 homicide rate. Over a period of less than 48 hours last week, 21 people were murdered in a grisly fashion to make a statement to the living. Most of the bloodshed is related to drug-cartel turf wars.

A local resident said that Mexican cartel members have threatened her family. Her husband had to use a gun to fend off a dozen illegals entering her property heading for the house. She says it is unsafe to go outside without a gun and her neighbors are afraid to call Border Patrol due to threats by drug smugglers.

Seventeen murders were recorded in Tijuana over a 28-hour period; most of them involving low-level dealers, lookouts, customers, and enforcers in the illegal drug trade. The bloodshed is generally related to turf wars involving Cártel Tijuana Nueva Generación (CTNG) against the Sinaloa Cartel.

Mexico is no stranger to the assassinations of elected officials and candidates for office. And on Tuesday, the latest act of political violence to rock the nation occurred in a town in the southern state

Norma Azucena Rodríguez Zamora was driving along a highway when two men shot at her vehicle, causing it to flip and she was then pulled from the vehicle and forced to leave with the gunmen. More than 120 Mexican politicians and political candidates have been killed since September, 2017. More than 200,000 people have been murdered since 2006. [...]

In the nine months leading up to the election, 132 politicians have been killed, as thousands of federal, state and local offices were on the ballot. A risk assessment firm reported that 48 of the victims were candidates. [...]