• RODEO: Unknown gunmen opened fire Sunday at a local rodeo in the Iguala municipality of the southwestern state of Guerrero -three hours from Mexico City- using AK-47 and AR-15 high power rifles and killing at least one, according to police sources.
• VIDEO: After the rodeo shooting, armed men claiming to be part of the Guerreros Unidos gang claimed in a video posted in social media that a rival group known as Los Tlacos was responsible. In the video, they interrogate two alleged members of Los Tlacos who were later found dead.
• IGUALA: Sitting at the heart of Mexico’s heroin trafficking route, Iguala (pop. 140,000) is one of the municipalities in Mexico with the highest murder rate, with several local gangs fighting for control of the drug trade but also of the local extortion market.
• STUDENTS: The Guerreros Unidos gang featured prominently in the last Administration’s probe surrounding the 2014 disappearance of students in Iguala that argued that police officers on their payroll mistook the students for members of a rival criminal group.
