barbarism. When it seems that there are no ways to imagine something worse to end people’s lives, a new chapter arises in Mexico. On this occasion, a home video shows the supposed arrival at a wake of two white vans this Sunday in San José de Gracia, a town in Michoacán. Melodic music plays in the background, although it is not known exactly where it comes from. Approximately a dozen people are lined up against the facade of a house, as if ready, effectively, to face a firing squad. And so it happens. A group of armed men station themselves in front of the little house and the shots are heard, fired with long weapons. When video from a neighboring house returns to the massacre, some of the last bodies are seen falling to the ground in a cloud of gunpowder smoke. And there is no one against the wall anymore, everyone has collapsed.
The Michoacán prosecutor’s office has not provided official information on what happened in this town of Michoacán near Jalisco, two of the most violent states in Mexico these days when powerful cartels are fighting over these territories. There are hardly any details, but the video, of practically unpublished horror, shows a dirty war scene that has become viral. Some local media indicate that the death toll may reach 17 people.
The setting is a small village street, with low houses and red roofs, wooded, full of cars, those in front of the house with their doors open. Full sun.
Not even wakes are places of peace when it comes to settling scores between organized crime. the trucks park in the street, cut off access and sometimes shots are heard. Death makes way for death in a spiral of blood and bullets that seems to have no end in Mexico. It is often said that the 100 deaths reported on average per day give it the characteristics of a country at war. Never like today that appreciation had had a better reflection. The manner of killing was more like a shooting in a war conflict than a deadly altercation between gangs.
Carteles Unidos, Jalisco Nueva Generación, Caballeros Templarios and many other criminal gangs have been sowing horror in the beautiful state of Michoacán for a long time. The fertile land of the State provides phenomenal horticultural yields. Famous is the avocado, which is exported exclusively to the United States. But there is no business that does not end up in the hands of crime. The latest threats suffered by the US fruit qualifiers ended with the patience of the neighbor to the north and recently kept the harvest and export paralyzed, with the consequent millionaire losses. Michoacán is also a state of self-defense groups, civilians who arm themselves to suffocate the threat of drug traffickers as much as possible, but which, in the end, has only continued the massacres. The State has also had its episodes of severed heads in nightclubs, of riddled men hanging from bridges, a horror that has later been experienced in other places, such as Zacatecas, recently. This Sunday’s episode is one more twist in the drawing of hell. The Army is not enough to put an end to this war. Many details about this massacre are missing. You can only, for now, keep counting dead.
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