Operation Quintana Roo
| Operation Quintana Roo | ||||||||
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| Part of Mexican Drug War | ||||||||
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| Belligerents | ||||||||
| Gulf Cartel |
Beltrán-Leyva Cartel Los Zetas | |||||||
| Commanders and leaders | ||||||||
 Felipe Calderón Guillermo Galván Galván |
Osiel Cárdenas Guillén Antonio Cárdenas Guillén | Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano | ||||||
Operation Quintana Roo (Spanish:Operacion Quintana Roo) is a Mexican army & Navy operation in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo. The operation began in early February 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 Merida. Quintana Roo state officials reported that along with the general two other bodies were inside the truck, the two bodies were indentified as Lieutenant Julio Cesar Roman Zuniga who was the generals aide and the second victim was Juan Ramirez Sanchez, the generals driver and nephew of Benito Juarez municipality mayor Gregorio Sánchez Martínez.[1]
2009
- February 27 - 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]