Mexican Gangs Go on Rampage, Challenging President’s Security Strategy

MEXICO CITY—Gunmen from a few of Mexico’s most violent drug cartels rampaged by way of a number of cities, burning vehicles and buses and firing on troops, leaving residents homebound and companies closed this previous weekend in Tijuana, one of many nation’s largest cities.

The outburst of seemingly unrelated violence in at the very least 4 states over a number of days final week bolstered how highly effective organized crime teams that management swaths of the nation proceed to problem Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s strategy to address what he says are the financial roots of the issue.