Overview

• Chihuahua prosecutors have identified 27 of the 386 bodies found in Ciudad Juárez’s crematorium, with families vowing further protests over delayed results.
• Aguascalientes operations dismantled a suspected synthetic-drug camp and led to the arrest of 27 people linked to arson-fuelled roadblocks and store burnings.
• Despite the deployment of 1,500 soldiers and 300 special forces, Sinaloa recorded 14 cartel-style homicides in Culiacán and Ahome over the weekend.
• A snowstorm on Ruta 151 in Río Negro caused a Volkswagen Gol to lose control and collide head-on with a semi-trailer, killing four occupants, and a separate crash on National Route 11 in Santa Fe killed three and injured 17.
• An off-duty Federal Police officer in Caseros, Buenos Aires, shot and killed an alleged car thief and is under preliminary judicial review to determine if her actions constituted self-defense.