(Mario Rivera Alvarado/AP)A shootout in northern Mexico left at least 14 people dead Wednesday, according to government officials. The gunfight occurred between rival drug gangs in a rural part of Chihuahua state, which borders Texas and New Mexico, according to the state prosecutor’s office. Three days later, nine people were killed in the state of Puebla, east of Mexico City, as part of a festering dispute among fuel thieves. [Violence is soaring in parts of Mexico that supply heroin to the U.S.]The recent violence has underscored the deteriorating security across Mexico. Aparicio said that about 300 security forces are now in the area.

Source: Washington Post July 05, 2017 20:03 UTC