Alleged members of the Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG), one of Mexico's biggest and most violent criminal organizations, took part in a series of violent clashes with members of the Mexican Army and National Guard that left at least five deaths.
The incidents took place on March 16 in multiple municipalities across the states of Jalisco and Michoacán. According to Michoacán's Secretariat of Public Safety, one of the most violent clashes unfolded in the municipality of Chilchota, where members of Mexico's Secretariat of National Defense were ambushed by alleged cartel members along a highway.
