CHIHUAHUA STATE, Mexico (Reuters) – At least 26 people were dead or hospitalized after a shootout in the northern Mexican border state of Chihuahua on Wednesday (July 5), the state attorney general’s office said, as drug violence surges in one of Mexico’s bloodiest years on record. The shootout took place near the mountainous community of Las Varas, in the heart of one of Mexico’s drug trafficking regions, and it involved two armed groups. It was […]