Operation Quintana Roo

Operation Quintana Roo Part of Mexican Drug War Date February, 2009 - present Location Quintana Roo, Mexico Result Ongoing Belligerents Mexico Gulf Cartel Los Zetas Commanders and leaders Felipe Calderón Guillermo Galván Galván Jorge Eduardo Costilla Sánchez  (POW) Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano  † Miguel Treviño Morales  (POW)

Mexican Drug War Projects & Operations: Community Shield Gunrunner Jump Start Michoacán Wide Receiver Baja California Solare Xcellerator Sinaloa Nuevo León-Tamaulipas Guerrero Chihuahua Quintana Roo Coronado Fast and Furious Phalanx Southern Tempest Lince Norte Escorpión Delirium Laguna Segura Safe Veracruz Safe San Luis Potosi Neza State of Mexico Blue Storm Kruz Control Terminus Bishop Coyote Wildfire Black Swan Diablo Express Shadowfire Events: El Chapo manhunt 2008 Morelia 2009 Mexico prison 2009 Arivaca 2009 Guanajuato and Hidalgo Ciudad Juárez rehab center 2010 Chihuahua Nuevo León Guerrero 2010 San Fernando 2010 Saric 2010 Puebla 2011 San Luis Potosi 2011 San Fernando 2011 Douglas Coahuila 2011 Monterrey casino 2011 Durango 2011 Tucson Altamira prison Apodaca prison 2012 Veracruz Cadereyta Jiménez 2012 Nuevo Laredo 2012 Nogales 2012 La Joya 2015 Michoacán 2016 Topo Chico Mexico is supported by the United States in this conflict through the Mérida Initiative.

Operation Quintana Roo (Spanish:Operacion Quintana Roo) is an anti-drug trafficking military operation jointly conducted by the Mexican army and navy in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo. The operation began in early February 2009 after the death of former Brigadier General Mauro Enrique Tello Quiñónez and two other men.

Background

On February 3, 2009. Outside of Cancun, retired Brigadier General Mauro Enrique Tello Quiñónez was killed after spending less than a day on his new job as a special drug-fighting consultant for the Benito Juarez mayor. His dead body was found inside a Toyota pickup truck along a highway that leads to Mérida. Quintana Roo state officials reported that along with the general two other bodies were inside the truck, the two bodies were identified as Lieutenant Julio Cesar Roman Zuniga, who was the general's aide, and the second victim was Juan Ramirez Sanchez, the general's driver and nephew of Benito Juarez municipality mayor Gregorio Sánchez Martínez.^[1]

2009

• February 7 - Quintana Roo State Governor, Félix González Canto, announces that Army troops and Marines will be deployed into the state especially in the city of Cancun. Since the military was deployed, various raids were being operated inside the city with the help of the Police Special Forces Support (FEPA) an elite unit within the State Secretariat of Public Security.^[2][3]
• February 10 - In a surprise operation, Army troops swooped in and took over a police station in Cancún in connection with the torture and murder of former general Mauro Enrique Tello Quiñónez. Weapons that were assigned to the Police Commander and the rest of his police officers were taken for a registration inspection.^[4]
• June 15 - Juan Manuel Jurado Zarzoza aka "El Puma" a lieutenant of the Gulf Cartel in Cancun was captured.^[5]

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