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January 21 – Mexican security forces capture drug lord Alfredo Beltrán Leyva.

January 1 – The Federal government, along with SEDENA, launches the Joint Operation Nuevo León-Tamaulipas in order to eliminate the operation areas of both the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas.

įor 2007, the drug-related death toll reached 2,477.

December 29 – The entire police force in the town of Playas de Rosarito, Baja California, is disarmed under suspicions of collaborating with drug cartels.

December 8 – Gerardo García Pimentel, a crime reporter, is killed.

December 2 – Popular singer Sergio Gómez is kidnapped and killed.

May 14 – Jorge Altriste, head of operations for Mexico's elite police force in Tijuana, is murdered.

March 17 – Zhenli Ye Gon is relieved of US$213 million in Mexico City.

January 20 – Drug lord Osiel Cárdenas Guillén is extradited to the USA.

January 2 – Operation Baja California is launched.

A total of more than 60 Mexican soldiers and more than 100 police officers, and 500 cartel gunmen are killed in the operation.

December 11 – Operation Michoacán is launched against the La Familia Michoacana cartel.

He also imposes a cap on salaries of high-ranking public servants and orders a raise on the salaries of the Federal Police and the Mexican Armed Forces.

December 1 – President Felipe Calderón assumes office.

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November 25 – Popular singer Valentín Elizalde is ambushed and gunned down along with his manager (and best friend) Mario Mendoza Grajeda, and driver Reynaldo Ballesteros, in the border city of Reynosa, across the border from McAllen, Texas.

As time passed, Calderón continued to escalate his anti-drug campaign, in which there are now about 45,000 troops involved along with state and federal police forces. This action is regarded as the first major retaliation made against the cartel violence, and is generally viewed as the starting point of the Mexican drug war between the government and the drug cartels.

That changed on December 11, 2006, when the newly elected President Felipe Calderón sent 6,500 Mexican Army soldiers to the state of Michoacán to end drug violence there. Although violence between drug cartels had been occurring for three decades, the Mexican government held a generally passive stance regarding cartel violence through the 1980s and early 2000s. The timeline of some of the most relevant events in the Mexican drug war is set out below.

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