The ‘narcos’ entered the municipal building in broad daylight and shot through all the rooms with a balance of eighteen dead
In Mexico, the ‘law’ is set by drug traffickers against a government incapable of stopping them, whatever the political tendency that occupies it. It is demonstrated every day, but there are times when the power of the cartels is shown even with oscenity.
It happened yesterday in the community of San Miguel Totolapan, belonging to the violent state of Guerrero, in the south of the country. There, in broad daylight, members of the Los Tequileros cell, from the neighboring territory of Jalisco, allies of the powerful Jalisco New Generation cartel, stormed the city hall with gunfire to assassinate the mayor, Conrado Mendoza, of the leftist Party of the Revolution. Democratic Party (PRD), and seventeen other people – politicians, officials and citizens – who were in the building.
The first sign of the virulence of the attack was drawn on the facade of the municipal palace, sewn with dozens of shots. Inside, the horror. Corpses scattered throughout the different rooms and rivers of blood that ran through the corridors as if they were riverbeds.
The Tequileros, who had acted years ago in this community, above all perpetrating kidnappings for extortion, have returned. They manifested it in a video that they published after the massacre. In the recording, a group of heavily armed, hooded men brags about their feat.
According to local media, the influence of Los Tequileros was diminished in 2018 after the death of one of its leaders in a clash with community police. But they never gave up control of the territory of San Miguel Totolapan and for several months on social networks alleged messages from this criminal cell were circulating in which they threatened to establish their own law.
the mayor’s father
“Until now we have confirmed the death of eighteen and two wounded,” Guerrero prosecutor Sandra Luz Valdovinos told Milenio television. Among the deceased, according to police reports cited by local media, is also the father of Mayor Mendoza, who years ago also directed the corporation of this community, police chiefs and soldiers.
“An operation was deployed to locate and arrest those responsible for the armed attack,” the coordination for the construction of peace, in which state and federal authorities participate, reported in a statement. In fact, after the aggression, the accesses to the town, of some 4,300 inhabitants and located in the so-called hot land of Guerrero, were blocked with trucks and buses.
The Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) condemned the “cowardly murder” of the mayor on Twitter. “We demand justice, enough impunity,” says the message.
The governor of Guerrero, Evelyn Salgado, of the ruling Morena party, condemned the attack on the same social network and assured that she has ordered the investigations to be speeded up to clarify the facts. “There will be no impunity in the face of the cunning aggression against the municipal president,” she wrote.
According to a count by the consulting firm Etellekt, with Mendoza there are 94 mayors murdered in Mexico since 2000. Mexico has recorded more than 340,000 murders, most attributed to criminal organizations, since the launch of a controversial military anti-drug offensive in December 2006.
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