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 * 1) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that Édgar Morales Pérez, the mayor-elect of Matehuala, San Luis Potosí, was assassinated before taking office? (998 views)
 * 2) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that, Jesús Blancornelas, a Mexican journalist, risked his life while reporting on the Tijuana Cartel, the drug trade in Mexico, and political corruption? (668 views)
 * 3) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that Eduardo Castro Luque, the deputy-elect of Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, Mexico, was assassinated two days before he was to enter office? (740 views)
 * 4) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that Enedina Arellano Félix, the leader of the Tijuana Cartel, is the first female Mexican drug lord? (2,662 views)
 * 5) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that María Santos Gorrostieta Salazar, a female politician from Mexico, survived three assassination attempts before being killed? (4,670 views)
 * 6) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that the Mexican gang Los Ántrax is named after the disease anthrax? (4,192 views)
 * 7) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that María Isabella Cordero, a former Mexican anchorwoman on Televisa, was killed in Mexico's most violent state in 2010? (6,046 views)
 * 8) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that journalist Enrique Perea Quintanilla was tortured and killed, allegedly for his coverage on political corruption and drug trafficking in Mexico? (2,840 views)
 * 9) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that after surviving an assassination attempt, Mexican journalist Pablo Pineda Gaucín made funeral arrangements? (1,224 views)
 * 10) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that crime reporter Dolores Guadalupe García Escamilla was accused of collaborating with the Gulf Cartel, a Mexican drug trafficking organization? (1,171 views)
 * 11) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that journalist Roberto Javier Mora García was stabbed 26 times and killed, allegedly for reporting on the Mexican drug cartels? (1,955 views)
 * 12) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that Mexican journalist Misael Tamayo Hernández was abducted and assassinated, probably by lethal injection? (3,047 views)
 * 13) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that with the assassination of Adrián Silva Moreno, nearly 100 journalists, writers and bloggers have been kidnapped or killed in Mexico? (1,658 views)
 * 14) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that gunmen broke into a cemetery and stole the corpse of drug lord Efraín Teodoro Torres? (1,775 views)
 * 15) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that Mexican drug lord Óscar Guerrero Silva was nicknamed Winnie Pooh? (2,118 views)
 * 16) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that Gustavo González Castro left the Mexican Army, and later became a drug trafficker for Los Zetas? (1,593 views)
 * 17) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that drug lord Héctor Delgado Santiago punished the local transit police and forced them to patrol on foot for pulling him over? (3,136 views)
 * 18) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that the Facebook page Valor por Tamaulipas received death threats from a Mexican drug trafficking organization? (2,820 views)
 * 19) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that shortly after journalist Jaime Guadalupe González Domínguez was assassinated, his online news portal was shut down for fear of future reprisals? (1,290 views)
 * 20) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that Mexican journalist Rodolfo Rincón Taracena was kidnapped, tortured, and burned to death for writing about drug trafficking? (2,880 views)
 * 21) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that Gulf Cartel drug lord Miguel Villarreal allegedly ordered kidnappings in South Texas from Mexico in 2011? (1,738 views)
 * 22) . [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that former U.S. Marine Armando Torres III was recently kidnapped by gunmen in Mexico? (3,420 views)
 * 23) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that drug lord Héctor Manuel Sauceda Gamboa intimidated journalists who dared to write about his criminal organization? (1,440 views)
 * 24) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that after completing his prison sentence in the U.S., drug lord Javier Torres Félix was deported to Mexico and arrested as he crossed the international border? (3,078 views)
 * 25) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that drug lord Aurelio Cano Flores worked for a drug trafficking organization while still serving as a police officer? (1,662 views)
 * 26) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that Mexican journalist Evaristo Ortega Zárate managed to send a text message during his 2010 kidnapping? (1,746 views)
 * 27) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] … that Tijuana Cartel drug lord Francisco Rafael Arellano Félix was killed by a clown? (5,171 views)
 * 28) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that drug lord Homero Cárdenas Guillén is believed to be the new leader of Mexico's Gulf Cartel? (1,850 views)
 * 29) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that over 300 journalists were killed during the Guatemalan Civil War? (1,350 views)
 * 30) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that Catholic priest Carlos Ornelas Puga was recently kidnapped by gunmen in Mexico, and his whereabouts remain unknown? (2,999 views)
 * 31) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that Sinaloa Cartel drug lord Gonzalo Inzunza Inzunza was recently killed in a gunfight, but his body was not recovered by Mexican authorities? (2,223 views)
 * 32) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that Sinaloa Cartel drug lord El Chino Ántrax raffled cars and other gifts to his followers on social media? (2,611 views)
 * 33) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that alleged drug trafficker Serafín Zambada Ortiz was arrested by US federal agents when he went out to do some Christmas shopping? (3,182 views)
 * 34) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that Mike O'Connor worked for the Committee to Protect Journalists in one of the most dangerous countries for journalists? (561 views)
 * 35) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that former Nuevo Laredo, Mexico mayor Benjamín Galván Gómez was recently kidnapped and killed? (2,936 views)
 * 36) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán reportedly escaped from prison in a laundry cart? (981 views)
 * 37) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that while Mexican drug lord Inés Coronel Barreras was officially listed as a cattle rancher in Durango, the neighbors claimed he was growing marijuana and opium poppies? (3,645 views)
 * 38) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that Los Zetas crime syndicate founder Galindo Mellado Cruz was recently killed in a gunfight in Mexico? (2,220 views)
 * 39) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that Carlos Manuel Hoo Ramírez was arrested along with Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, once considered Mexico's most-wanted drug lord? (1,324 views)
 * 40) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that Octavio Rojas Hernández was the fifth journalist killed in Mexico in 2014? (1,249 views)
 * 41) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that 18 family members were kidnapped by the Gulf Cartel in Matamoros, Mexico in 2011? (4,340 views)
 * 42) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that Moisés Sánchez Cerezo was the first journalist killed in Mexico in 2015? (1,186 views)
 * 43) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that Joey Fischer was murdered after he refused to take US$500 to date his ex-girlfriend? (19,477 views)
 * 44) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that gunmen of Mexican drug lord Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes shot down a Mexican Army helicopter using a rocket-propelled grenade? (2,242 views)
 * 45) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that Mark Kilroy was killed during spring break in Mexico by a cult that boiled his brains in a human sacrifice ritual? (5,459 views)
 * 46) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that suspected drug lord Abigael González Valencia reportedly co-owns a biomedical technology consulting firm in Mexico? (6,161 views)
 * 47) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that suspected Mexican drug lord Rubén Oseguera González was released from prison three times in less than a year? (3,268 views)
 * 48) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that U.S. citizens are prohibited from engaging in business transactions with Antonio Oseguera Cervantes? (17,652 views)
 * 49) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that Argentine chef Federico Tobares disappeared while driving in Jalisco, Mexico? (7,024 views)
 * 50) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that U.S. citizens are prohibited from conducting business transactions with Elvis González Valencia? (12,589 views)
 * 51) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that ecotourism resort Hotelito Desconocido was reportedly a money laundering front for a Mexican drug cartel? (4,529 views)
 * 52) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that U.S. citizens are prohibited from engaging in business transactions with the owners of the Mexican newspaper Unomásuno? (5,643 views)
 * 53) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that as CEO of Nestlé Mexico, Eugenio Minvielle Lagos pushed for the "pull strategy"? (1,373 views)
 * 54) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that the murder of Vicente Bermúdez Zacarías, a federal judge, was a rare incident in the ongoing Mexican Drug War? (3,045 views)
 * 55) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that 15 policemen were killed in an ambush in Jalisco, Mexico, in 2015? (4,076 views)
 * 56) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that Grupo Garza Ponce, now one of the largest construction firms in Mexico, had to change its business model every month during the 1982 debt crisis? (1,298 views)
 * 57) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that the Jalisco New Generation Cartel shot down a helicopter, hijacked 39 vehicles, and burned multiple banks, gas stations, and businesses in a single day? (5,278 views)
 * 58) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that Mexico was represented by a single athlete at the 2014 Winter Paralympics? (2,603 views)
 * 59) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that the US Drug Enforcement Administration is looking for a man known as The Claw?
 * 60) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that Texas-born Mario Alberto Peña became a suspected regional leader of the Gulf Cartel and a gangster folk hero on both sides of the Mexico–United States border?
 * 61) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that the suspected Mexican drug lord José González Valencia possessed an official passport that had all the security features needed for international travel, issued under a false name?
 * 62) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that after the arrest of suspected drug lord El 85, shootouts, burning vehicles, and roadblocks were staged in Guadalajara, Mexico, possibly to allow his allies to escape undetected?
 * 63) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that after his ban on playing League of Legends was lifted, Loltyler1 's return set a new record for viewership on Twitch?
 * 64) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that pictures of suspected 18-year-old assassin Raúl Meza Torres inspired other teenagers in Mexico to join organized crime?
 * 65) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that when Mexican suspected drug lord Raúl Meza Ontiveros was arrested, police found 348 kilograms (767 lb) of cocaine in his possession?
 * 66) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that Mexican drug lord Martín Arzola Ortega complained about the price of potato chips in prison?
 * 67) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that the Mexican Army leaked a picture of Misael Torres Urrea that ended up popularizing several drug ballads?
 * 68) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that the back cover of Luis Miguel's album México en la Piel was changed in 2005 because the original had altered the colors of the Mexican flag, which is illegal in Mexico?
 * 69) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that Mexican suspected hitman René Velázquez Valenzuela shaved his head and grew his beard as a sign of loyalty to his boss?
 * 70) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that Mexico was represented by a single athlete at the 1994 Winter Olympics?
 * 71) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that the police force of a town in Jalisco, Mexico, was disarmed in 2015 after their own officers ambushed the national police?
 * 72) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that suspected hitwoman Joselyn Alejandra Niño had a nickname which referred to Our Lady of Holy Death?
 * 73) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that two U.S. agents were nearly killed by a drug cartel in Mexico in 1999?
 * 74) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that the arrest of Adán Medrano Rodríguez marked a shift in how the Mexican government tackled drug cartels?
 * 75) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]]... that a 12-hour hearing for Mexican businesswoman Rosalinda González Valencia was held behind closed doors because the government was presenting sensitive evidence about a drug cartel?
 * 76) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]] ... that after snitching on a drug cartel, José Manuel Garza Rendón may live the rest of his life like a "hunted rabbit"?
 * 77) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]]... that Juan Carlos de la Cruz Reyna tried to bribe an undercover agent to ensure he was released from prison to members of a drug cartel?
 * 78) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]]... that U.S. citizens are prohibited from engaging in business activities with Chhota Shakeel?
 * 79) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]]... that U.S. citizens are prohibited from engaging in business activities with Víctor Manuel Vázquez Mireles?
 * 80) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]]... that the arrest of Gilberto García Mena marked when the Mexican government stopped treating drug cartels passively and instead hunted them down?
 * 81) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]]... that Philip II of Spain approved funds for a convent because his illegitimate daughter was living there?
 * 82) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]]... that suspected drug lord Edelio López Falcón was known as "The Lord of the Horses"?
 * 83) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]]... that a Mexican mayor warned that the murder of suspected drug lord Rolando López Salinas would increase drug violence in his city?
 * 84) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]]... that former Mexican police chief Zeferino Peña Cuéllar may have escaped through a secret tunnel during an attack by a drug cartel?
 * 85) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]]... that Mexican drug lord Carlos Landín Martínez was arrested while buying watermelons?
 * 86) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]]... that former Mexican police chief Gilberto Lerma Plata was ordered to forfeit US$10 billion in drug profits?
 * 87) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]]... that Mexican drug lord Alfonso Lam Liu spoke over radio using a coded language, to prevent law enforcement from understanding his drug operations?
 * 88) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]]... that suspected drug lord Raúl Hernández Barrón claimed to be a policeman to avoid being arrested?
 * 89) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]]... that after drug cartel member Raúl Alberto Trejo Benavides was killed in a shootout, his comrades tried to fabricate a suicide?
 * 90) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]]... that a US$25,000 bounty is offered for Big Momma?
 * 91) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]]... that Mexican drug lord María Antonieta Rodríguez Mata controlled a drug trafficking ring that extended across Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, and the U.S.?
 * 92) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]]... that Mexican soldier Jorge López Pérez is wanted for high treason, but has been a fugitive since 2003?
 * 93) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]]... that U.S. citizens are prohibited from engaging in business activities with Abel Briones Ruiz?
 * 94) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]]... that after Mexican drug lord Ediel López Falcón was ordered to forfeit US$15 billion in the U.S., Mexican authorities wanted to keep fifty percent of it?
 * 95) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]]... that when he was killed, Mexican drug lord Luis Alberto Guerrero Reyes was wearing a live grenade as a necklace?
 * 96) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]]... that there is a US$5 million reward for information leading to the conviction of Gilberto Barragán Balderas?
 * 97) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]]... that the U.S. government has tried to prevent Omar Lorméndez Pitalúa from accessing the international financial sector?
 * 98) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]]... that after vehicle thief Líctor Hazael Marroquín García died in 1985, a Mexican drug lord sent flowers to his grave twice a year?
 * 99) [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]]... that despite being 80 miles (130 km) apart, Austin and San Antonio are merging into one metropolis?