Massacres
Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Notes |
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Goliad massacre | March 27, 1836 | Goliad County, Texas | 342 | 465 prisoners. 28 escaped, 20 spared as workers, 75 spared as unarmed captives. |
Dawson massacre | September 17, 1842 | near San Antonio de Bexar, Texas | 36 | 15 captured and 36 killed out of a total of 54 Texan men. |
Saint Patrick's Battalion massacre | September 10–13, 1847 | Chapultepec, Mexico City | 50 | 50 surrendered Irish volunteers who fought as part of the Mexican Army against the United States in the Mexican–American War, collectively known as Saint Patrick's battalion were killed by the U.S. Army. |
1846 Monterrey massacre | September 23, 1846 | Monterrey, Nuevo León | ~60 | Ampudia ordered the white flag of surrender to be flown. Many American troops, especially the Texas Rangers ran about looting and burning houses, raping women, and killing entire families of Monterrey.[1] |
1847 Monterrey massacre | January 4, 1847 | Monterrey, Nuevo León | ~50 | Texas volunteers blamed the Mexicans for the death of several of their companions in the occupied Monterrey. Consequently, American troops began shooting all civilians they encountered. The Houston Telegraph and Register, citing military sources reported over 50 killed.[2] |
Crabb massacre | April 1–8, 1857 | Caborca, Sonora | 84 | 84 killed out of a total of 85 American men. |
Mazocoba massacre | January 18, 1900 | Guaymas, Sonora | ~400 | Also known as the Battle of Mazocoba |
Río Blanco strike | January 7 and 8, 1907 | Río Blanco, Veracruz | 50 to 70 | Federal troops put down rioting textile workers |
Torreón massacre | May 15, 1911 | Torreón, Coahuila | 300 | |
Santa Isabel massacre | January 10, 1916 | near Santa Isabel, Chihuahua | 18 | Villistas stopped a train near Santa Isabel, Chihuahua and killed eighteen American passengers from the ASARCO company of Tucson, Arizona. |
León massacre | January 2, 1946 | León, Guanajuato | 30-100 | [3][4] |
Tlatelolco massacre | October 2, 1968 | Mexico City | 40-400 | |
Corpus Christi massacre | June 10, 1971 | Mexico City | 120 | Also known as "El Halconazo" |
Tula massacre | January 14, 1982 | Atotonilco de Tula, Hidalgo | 13 | |
Aguas Blancas massacre | June 28, 1995 | Aguas Blancas, Guerrero | 17 | |
Acteal massacre | December 22, 1997 | Chenalhó, Chiapas | 45 | |
El Sauzal massacre | September 17, 1998 | El Sauzal, Baja California | 19 | [5] |
Villas de Salvárcar massacre | January 31, 2010 | Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua | 15 | |
Guerrero mass graves | June 2010 | Taxco, Guerrero | 55 | |
Nuevo León mass graves | June 25, 2010 | Nuevo León | ~70 | |
2010 San Fernando massacre | August 24, 2010 | San Fernando, Tamaulipas | 72 | |
San Fernando massacre | April 6, 2011 | San Fernando, Tamaulipas | 193 | |
Coahuila mass graves | June 3, 2011 | Piedras Negras, Coahuila | 38 | |
Durango massacres | April 2011 | Durango, Durango | 340 | |
Monterrey casino attack | August 25, 2011 | Monterrey, Nuevo León | 52 | |
Altamira prison brawl | January 4, 2012 | Altamira, Tamaulipas | 31 | |
Apodaca prison riot | February 19, 2012 | Apodaca, Nuevo León | 44 | |
Cadereyta Jiménez massacre | May 13, 2012 | Cadereyta Jiménez, Nuevo León | 49 | |
Tlatlaya massacre | June 30, 2014 | San Pedro Limón, Tlatlaya, Michoacán | 22 | 22 civilians executed by government troops.[6][7] |
Iguala massacre | September 26 - October 5, 2014 | Iguala, Guerrero | ~40 | |
Apatzingán massacre | January 5, 2015 | Apatzingán, Michoacán | 16 | 16 unarmed civilians killed by federal police outside Apatzingán city hall.[8] |
Tanhuato–Ecuandureo shootout | May 22, 2015 | Tanhuato, Michoacán | 22+ to 42 | [9][10] |
Salamanca nightclub shooting | March 9, 2019 | Salamanca, Guanajuato | 15 | |
Minatitlán shooting | April 19, 2019 | Minatitlán, Veracruz | 14 | [11] |
Uruapan massacre | August 8, 2019 | Uruapan, Michoacán | 19 | |
Coatzacoalcos nightclub fire | August 27, 2019 | Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz | 30 | [12][13] |
LeBarón and Langford families massacre | November 4, 2019 | Near Bavispe, Sonora | 9 | Gunmen suspected of being drug cartel members ambushed three vehicles occupied by Mormon U.S.-Mexican dual citizens on a highway in Sonora, killing nine, including six children. The cars and the burned bodies of the victims were found by the police.[14] |
Cieneguillas prison riots | December 31, 2019 January 2, 2020 |
Near Cieneguillas, Zacatecas | 17 | Using weapons smuggled into the prison, the inmates rioted with 16 being killed in the first riot on 31 December and an additional inmate being killed in the second riot on January 2.[15] |
Camargo massacre | January 2021 | Camargo, Tamaulipas | 19 | On January 23, 2021, 19 bodies were discovered near the Mexico–United States border, the victims are said to be migrants and were shot and set on fire.[16] |
Coatepec Harinas attack | March 18, 2021 | Coatepec Harinas, State of Mexico | 13 | Gunmen ambushed a police convoy, killing 13 police officers.[17] |
Tarecuato massacre | November 11, 2021 | Tangamandapio, Michoacán | 11 | 11 gunmen killed 11 indigenous people.[18] |
Las Tinajas massacre | March 27, 2022 | Las Tinajas, Zinapécuaro, Michoacán | 20 | 17 men and 3 women killed at a cockfight by members of a rival faction of Jalisco New Generation Cartel.[19][20] |
Celaya massacre | May 23, 2022 | Celaya, Guanajuato | 11 | A group of about 15 men shot staff and guests at a hotel. |
See also
References
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- ^ Reuters (2022-03-28). "Gunmen kill 19 at cockfight in troubled western Mexican state". Reuters. Retrieved 2022-03-28.