Twelve people were killed in a shooting at a bar in central Mexico, local authorities said, with growing cartel violence making the region one of the country's most dangerous.
Mexico has recorded more than 340,000 murders, most of them attributed to criminal organizations, since the launching of a controversial military anti-drug offensive in December 2006.
Industrial Guanajuato state has become the site of a raging dispute between two rival groups -- the Santa Rosa de Lima and Jalisco New Generation cartels -- known for carrying out drug trafficking and fuel theft, as well as other crimes. The Department of Justice considers the Jalisco cartel to be"one of the five most dangerous transnational criminal organizations in the world." The cartel's leader, Nemesio Oseguera,"The head of the Drug Enforcement Administration that the Jalisco cartel is one of the Mexican cartels that are behind the influx of fentanyl in the U.S. that's killing tens of thousands of Americans.
"Those cartels are acting with calculated, deliberate treachery to get fentanyl to the United States and to get people to buy it through fake pills, by hiding it in other drugs, any means that they can take in order to drive addiction and to make money," DEA Administrator Anne Milgram told"CBS Mornings."
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