Jorge Domene, a spokesman for the state government, said it appeared that members of Los Zetas and the Gulf Cartel, two of Mexico's most powerful criminal groups, started the fight as part of a power struggle, using sharp objects, stones and clubs.
The two groups are Mexico's most powerful criminal competitors.
SO THE Cali cartel, once the world's most powerful criminal organisation, is dead, is it?
Full legalisation would knock the bottom out of the market, hurting the island's powerful criminal gangs.
I am often asked why the Camorra, this great, powerful criminal organisation, is afraid of me.
Thus the Mafia, in more than a half-century of powerful criminal activity in America, has contributed little slang.
Dealing with the rich and powerful criminal gangs that run these businesses will be a formidable job, and also dangerous.
Fazzalari, of the notorious Calabrian 'Ndrangheta, Italy's richest and most powerful criminal organisation, had been a fugitive since June 1996.
She was shot dead on a Guadalajara street; hours later, military policemen turned her house upside down.Carrillo was on his way to becoming the world's most powerful criminal.
While powerful criminal organizations like the Zetas have long made extortion their calling card, it has since taken on a life of its own.
Mr Gordienko half-jokingly calls himself a "patriotic pirate", and speaks of an alliance with Odessa's powerful criminal underworld against the pro-Russians.
