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CV NEWS FEED // At least 16 people were injured on October 27 when a stolen truck reportedly struck a crowd outside Guadalajara Cathedral in Jalisco, Mexico, following the “March for Women and Life.” A suspect is now in custody. The Guadalajara city government announced on X that the suspect allegedly stole a pickup truck near a local market and drove it toward the cathedral plaza in an apparent attempt to evade capture, colliding with the pro-life demonstration crowd in the process. Local authorities have confirmed that most of the injured were participants in the march, which was organized by...

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico – Gunmen burst into a bar called "Desesperados" in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez and opened fire on Sunday, killing five people and wounding nine others, authorities said. Assailants also killed the state's prisons director and his son in a second attack in the area, which has turned into a deadly battleground for warring drug cartels. Gunmen opened fire on the vehicle carrying Chihuahua prison director Gerardo Ortiz and his son in Chihuahua city, the state capital, located south of Ciudad Juarez. The state's prisons used to be the site of frequent battles between gangs,...

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