In 2010, a number of events took place in organized crime.
While investigating the kidnapping, policeman Jesus Escalante was killed.
The Mexican Drug War is an armed conflict taking place between rival drug cartels and government forces in Mexico.
Mexican drug cartels, or drug trafficking organizations, have become more powerful since the demise of Colombia's Cali and Medellín cartels in the 1990s.
[1] Arrests of key cartel leaders, particularly in the Tijuana and Gulf cartels, have led to increasing drug violence as cartels fight for control of the trafficking routes into the United States.