The instability in the Sinaloa drug cartel has allowed the emergence of Jalisco New Generation Cartel to move into San Jose del Cabo, causing an increase in homicides. They are killing each other over the local drug market. The U.S. Department of State issued a warning to U.S. citizens about the risk of traveling to the Los Cabos area due to the activities of criminal organizations in those areas.
Crime scene investigators collect evidence at the scene of a homicide where one man was killed and another injured in San Jose del Cabo, Baja Calif. Sur.
The body of Jose Mauricio Savala Espinoza, 20, after being killed by a firearm in broad daylight.
Juan Gabriel Martinez comforts his wife Ana Maria Burgoin as she weeps for her brother Juan Jose Burgoin Fausto, 47, and nephew Edwin Guerrero Burgoin, 22, who were gunned down in broad daylight in Colonia Villas Bonita.
A worker spackles the walls where Gabriel Unzón Burgoin was killed in his apartment by 352 bullets, counted at the scene, along calle Tabachines in colonia Buenos Aires.
The Mexican Army patrols Palmilla Beach where recently three men were killed by a group of men with automatic weapons.
The Mexican Federal Police, Mexican Army and local municipal police respond to a shooting at a home where one man was pronounced dead at the scene, one injured and another who fled the area in colonia Puerto Nuevo. Puerto Nuevo is known to be a cartel strong hold where drugs are distributed by local families.
A victim suffering gun shot wounds is taken by Cruz Roja to a local hospital while the Mexican Federal Police, Mexican Army and local municipal police respond to a shooting in colonia Puerto Nuevo.
Family members and friends weep for Juan Jose Burgoin Fausto, 47, and nephew Edwin Guerrero Burgoin, 22, at the family's home in San Jose del Cabo. The two victims were gunned down in broad daylight in Colonia Villas Bonita in the northern part of the city.
Local residents construct a tomb in the over crowded Santa Rosa Cemetery. The cemetery is at full capacity due to the recent increase in homicides.
The site where Juan Jose Burgoin Fausto, 47, and nephew Edwin Guerrero Burgoin, 22, were gunned down in colonia Villas Bonita.
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