MEXICO CITY — Mexican security officials claimed Tuesday that a demonstration that blocked the main highway to the resort of Acapulco and led to the abduction of government officials was organized by a drug gang. They also said that a National Guard officer had been killed by a car bomb set by a cartel in an earlier attack elsewhere. Also …
TOLUCA, Mexico — Masked gunmen set fire to a public market in the central Mexican city of Toluca on Monday, killing nine people, authorities said. The statement from state prosecutors said that “one of the first lines of investigation is that events may have been related to internal disputes over the possession of commercial spaces” at the market. Toluca was …
