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Security Developments in Mexico, Nov. 1-8
 Robin Emmott - Reuters
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November 08, 2010
More than 31,000 people have been killed since Mexican President Felipe Calderon launched his military campaign on drug cartels when he took office in 2006.
Following are selected incidents that took place during the past week in Mexico's escalating war on powerful drug gangs.
MONTERREY - Gunmen threw grenades at three police stations in Mexico's richest city Monterrey on Sunday night, injuring a woman and a young girl, police said.
CIUDAD JUAREZ - At least 18 people died in separate attacks across Ciudad Juarez on Saturday, including seven people shot at a party, as the manufacturing city on the border with Texas spins into an unrelenting cycle of violence.
REYNOSA - Rival gunmen blocked roads and strung up threatening banners in Reynosa, across from McAllen Texas, on Saturday, after marines killed Gulf cartel drug lord Ezequiel "Tony Tormenta" Cardenas, authorities said.
MONTERREY - A bystander was killed by a stray bullet during gunfights that raged across Monterrey, early on Saturday, police said.
GUADALAJARA - At least 9 people were killed across Mexico's western city of Guadalajara on Saturday, including five killed in a bar by suspected drug hitmen, Mexican media reported.
MATAMOROS - Mexican marines killed Gulf cartel leader Ezequiel "Tony Tormenta" Cardenas in a ferocious gunfight on Friday in the port city of Matamoros across from Brownsville, Texas, the navy said.
SAN BERNARDO - Hooded gunmen beat to death the mayor of the town of San Bernardo in Durango on Friday as he drove through the northwestern state with aides and his daughter, state prosecutors said.
ACAPULCO - Forensic workers exhumed the bodies of 18 men from a mass grave just outside the Pacific resort of Acapulco on Wednesday. Prosecutors said on Friday the bodies were those of 20 mechanics from the western state of Michoacan who went missing last month.
REYNOSA - Three people were injured when assailants threw a grenade into the parking lot of a busy supermarket in Reynosa, across from McAllen, Texas, on Wednesday, the town hall said.
CIUDAD JUAREZ - Two U.S. students from El Paso were shot dead on Tuesday in Ciudad Juarez, the U.S. consulate in the border city said. Including those deaths, six Americans were killed in Ciudad Juarez between Oct. 29 and Nov. 3.
(Compiled by Robin Emmott in Monterrey - robin.emmott(at)thomsonreuters.com)
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