Queretaro, the capital of Queretaro state, is considered one of the safer cities in Mexico, which has been plagued by years of drug cartel-related violence.

Summary

Ten people were killed and seven injured in a bar shooting in Queretaro, Mexico, a city typically seen as safer from cartel violence.

Gunmen in a truck attacked Los Cantaritos bar, with one suspect detained and the vehicle later found burned.

Queretaro joins a rising wave of violence across Mexico, where over 450,000 murders since 2006 are largely attributed to drug cartels.

President Claudia Sheinbaum, inaugurated on October 1, pledges a social-policy-based crime strategy, avoiding her predecessor’s “hugs, not bullets” slogan amidst escalating violence in Sinaloa, Guerrero, and beyond.