Terrorism in Mexico
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| Year | Number of incidents |
Deaths | Injuries |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 5 | 4 | 0 |
| 2015 | 19 | 9 | 10 |
| 2014 | 5 | 1 | 2 |
| 2013 | 8 | 47 | 110 |
| 2012 | 16 | 17 | 8 |
| 2011 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 2009 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2008 | 8 | 21 | 104 |
| 2007 | 10 | 25 | 6 |
| 2006 | 7 | 7 | 34 |
| 2005 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 2004 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 2003 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 2002 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2001 | 7 | 13 | 5 |
| 2000 | 4 | 5 | 3 |
| 1999 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1998 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 1997 | 95 | 229 | 47 |
| 1996 | 75 | 96 | 211 |
| 1995 | 29 | 61 | 27 |
| 1994 | 42 | 88 | 32 |
| 1993 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1992 | 6 | 6 | 2 |
| 1991 | 10 | 13 | 0 |
| 1990 | 5 | 3 | 1 |
| 1989 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1988 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| 1987 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 1985 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1984 | 4 | 13 | 9 |
| 1983 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1982 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| 1981 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 1980 | 5 | 3 | 0 |
| 1979 | 10 | 5 | 0 |
| 1978 | 30 | 7 | 18 |
| 1977 | 19 | 11 | 15 |
| 1976 | 20 | 26 | 5 |
| 1975 | 10 | 32 | 5 |
| 1974 | 16 | 2 | 0 |
| 1973 | 6 | 1 | 0 |
| 1972 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1971 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1970 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Terrorism in Mexico is the phenomenon of organized violence against civilians. It appeared in the 1960s, committed by communist guerrillas.[3]
Far-left groups
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From the late 1960s to the 1980s guerrilla movements operated in the country. The worst attacks were the assault of the Madera Cuartel and Tlatelolco Massacre, the starting point for several guerrilla movements, specially in the states of Guerrero and Ciudad de Mexico. Groups included Partido de los Pobres, People's Guerrilla Group, or Liga Comunista 23 de Septiembre. These groups were demolished, amid allegations of extrajudicial executions or forced disappearances.[4][5]
Eventually in the 1990s the guerrilla activity it would focus in states of Guerrero, Oaxaca (with bastions of the Ejercito Popular Revolucionario, Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo Insurgente and Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias del Pueblo, Tendencia Democrática Revolucionaria-Ejército del Pueblo, these last splits of the EPR)[6] and Chiapas this one gaining relevance with the Ejercito Zapatista De Liberacion Nacional
Narcoterrorism
[edit]In 2012 United States politician Sue Myrick claimed that mounting evidence of Hezbollah presence in Mexico was ignored by the Department of Homeland Security.[7][8] These groups became more visible by 2010, when the Tucson Police Department reported International Terrorism Situational Awareness for Hezbollah in Mexico, noting the arrest of Jameel Nasar in Tijuana. Nasar had tried to form a Hezbollah network in Mexico and South America. A report from the US House Homeland Security Committee Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations and Management tied Middle East terror organizations with Mexican drug cartels.[9][10]
Currently the violence related with the drug war represents the conflict of greatest generation of violence in the country, causing some attacks that can be branded as narco-terrorism like 2008 Morelia grenade attacks, 2009 Guanajuato and Hidalgo shootings and the 2011 Monterrey casino attack or the recently 2019 Minatitlán shooting.[11]
Anarchist groups
[edit]Anarchist groups in México have been on the rise since the beginning of the 2000s, with a large number of attacks to banks, religious centers and government buildings, especially intensifying during the government of Enrique Peña Nieto.[12][13] Groups like Células Autónomas de Revolución Inmediata Práxedis G. Guerrero, Célula Insurreccional Mariano Sanchez Añón, Grupo de Ataque Insurrecto,[14] Brigada Informal Bruno Filippi, Caos Espontáneamente Anónimo, Salvaje,[15] Celula eco-anarquista por el Ataque Directo,[16] Frente Subversivo de Liberación Global,[17] Frente de Liberación Animal-Comando Verde Negro,[18] Individualistas Tendiendo a lo Salvaje, and others. The most notorious incident with this group was the Monterrey Tech bombing. One of the first important attacks the Brigada de Eco saboteadorxs por la Venganza Nunca Olvidada claimed a blast in a Banamex branch in the municipality of Coacalco, that do not leave injured[19][20] And two
In 2017 the CISEN (the mexican civil intelligence institution at the service of the government of Mexico) said that these "direct violent actions" came from groups such as the Earth Liberation Front (52 actions), the Animal Liberation Front (44), Celulas Autónomas de Revolución Inmediata-Práxedis Guerrero (32), Federazione Anarchia Informale (30) and the Conspiracy of Fire Cells (12). In Mexico City, the Cisen documented the existence of the Campamento Revolución, Bloque Anarko Sur (responsible for assaulting a group of journalists during a demonstration in 2011),[21] the Anarko Norte Bloc, the Black Anarchist Bloc, Chanti Ollin (House in Motion), the Magonista Autonomous Collective.,[22] the Anarchist Student Coordinator, Cruz Negra Anarchist and Okupa Che.[23][24][25]
See also
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- 2019 El Paso shooting, far-right terrorist attack in the US border town of El Paso, Texas, that killed eight Mexican civilians
- Smuggling of firearms into Mexico
References
[edit]- ^ National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses s to Terrorism (2016). "Global Terrorism Database". www.start.umd.edu. Retrieved 2019-03-17. See Global Terrorism Database (globalterrorismdb_0616dist.xlsx).
- ^ National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism. (2016). Global Terrorism Database (gtd1993_0616dist.xlsx). Retrieved from University of Maryland
- ^ "Breve cronología de los principales movimientos sociales ocurridos en México". Lucha de Clases.org. 21 December 2011. Retrieved 2018-08-08.
- ^ Guzmán, Jorge Luis Sierra (2003). El enemigo interno: contrainsurgencia y fuerzas armadas en México (in Spanish). Plaza y Valdes. ISBN 9789707221963.
- ^ Introducción a la historia de la guerrilla en México. 1943-1983. by Juan Fernando Reyes Peláez (Paperback) (in Spanish). Juan Fernando Reyes Peláez. February 26, 2008.
- ^ "Jacobo Silva: el nacimiento del ERPI". Contralinea. 3 May 2013. Retrieved 2019-05-06.
- ^ "Lawmaker urges feds to monitor Hezbollah in Mexico". Fox News. 2012-10-29. Retrieved 2012-10-29.
- ^ "¿Hezbollah en México? (In Spanish)". El Universal. 17 August 2019. Retrieved 2020-01-26.
- ^ "Hezbolá en México (In Spanish)". El Financiero. 24 July 2019. Retrieved 2020-01-26.
- ^ "¿Narcoterrorismo? (In Spanish)". El Universal. 3 December 2019. Retrieved 2020-01-26.
- ^ "Justice in MexicO/Data Base". Justice in Mexico. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
- ^ "La directriz anarquista contra "objetivos humanos"". Grupo Milenio. 12 July 2014. Retrieved 2019-07-03.
- ^ "Lo que los anarquistas quieren, en sus palabras... (In Spanish)". Milenio. 30 November 2014. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
- ^ "Grupos de anarcos operan en la mitad de la nación". Milenio Noticias. 14 January 2015. Retrieved 2020-11-15.
- ^ "MEXICO: REIVINDICACIÓN DE ACCIÓNES DE 2010 Y 2011". Viva la Anarquía. 23 July 2012. Retrieved 2020-12-04.
- ^ "Ataques incendiarios contra dos K.F.C. y un Mc donalds, México". La Haine-Liberación Total. Retrieved 2020-07-10.
- ^ "Sabotajes a cajeros automaticos y teléfonos telmex en México". La Haine-Liberación Total. Retrieved 2020-09-02.
- ^ "Resultados para: Frente de Liberación Animal/Comando Verdinegro". La Haine-Liberación Total. Retrieved 2020-09-30.
- ^ "Atentado explosivo contra sucursal de Banamex, México". La Haine Liberación Total. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
- ^ "Individualidades Tendiendo a lo Salvaje, detrás de los ataques en el Tec". Expansión. 11 August 2011. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
- ^ "Documentan agresiones contra periodistas; "volverán a ser abatidos", aseguran anarquistas (In Spanish)". Homozapping. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
- ^ ""¿Anarquistas en Guerrero?" (In Spanish)". Arsenal Diario Digital. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
- ^ "Células anarquistas al acecho (In Spanish)". MSN Noticias. Retrieved 2019-07-03.
- ^ "5 grupos anarquistas violentos que tienen presencia en el Edomex (In Spanish)". Vanguardia. 11 August 2011. Retrieved 2019-07-03.
- ^ "Un grupo anarquista escribe la palabra "resistir" sobre un campo de golf propiedad de Trump".
