Quintana Roo.- In recent weeks, the municipality of Bacalar, in Quintana Roobecame “war zone“by groups of the organized crimeand days ago, there was a intense shooting which lasted about 2 hours.
According to sources, until citizens who have reported threats, have been murdered.
Quintana Roo media outlets point out that the protagonists of these facts are the Caborca Cartel and the group of The Colonelsbelonging to the Sinaloa Cartel.
The city of Bacalar (on the shores of the Bacalar Lagoon) is the head of the municipality of the same name, and is located about 40 kilometers north of the capital Chetumal; It is of great tourist attraction, with several communities around it, but which have been left alone, due to the activities of the organized crime.
intense shooting
Media such as newspaper 24 Horas Quintana Roo and La Silla Rota publish that at around 7:00 in the morning last Thursday, June 13, a intense shooting in the community of El Gallito, in Bacalar. He confrontation lasted a few 2 hours.
Photos and videos circulating on social networks show houses shot at, burned or reduced to rubble, in addition to vehicles likewise shot and burned.
In the communities of El Gallito, Nuevo Canán, Miguel Alemán, Río Verde, David Gustavo, Cedralito, Zamora and Melchor Ocampo Activities were suspended in all schools.
After the emergency calls, security forces went to the area. Mexican Army, Navy of mexico and National Guard, but there were no arrests; Neighbors told them that armed men came to take control of El Gallito, but were repelled by “Los Coronel”, and that there were deaths and injuries.
The media details that it was a confrontation between members of the Caborca Cartel (founded by Rafael Caro Quintero and today led by José Gil Caro Quintero) and members of “Los Coronel” (presumably the family of Emma Coronel, wife of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán).
It is added that the Caborca Cartel controls the drug market in the tourist area of Tulum, Cancun and Bacalar, while Los Coronel have the Bacalar area under their control.
La Silla Rota publishes that, for a decade, drug cartels have turned Bacalar, Quintana Roo, into an area for the passage and transfer of drugs through aircraft from Central and South America. They land on clandestine runways, in that area of Quintana Roo, which is special for runways, as it is a flat area.
They report executions
An unofficial source indicated that after Thursday’s “battle,” families from Bacalar were evicted, but some men stayed in the town to defend it from the Caborca Cartel, which is trying to take over it.
“At the beginning of May, a group of armed men who identified themselves as the Caborca cartel entered the community of “el gallito” in Bacalar, Quintana Roo, demanding the community members abandon their lands and houses because they would now be their property, without However, the residents refused and decided to report the threats to the authorities,” the source details.
“On May 19, after a meeting was held between residents and authorities from the State Prosecutor’s Office and the National Guard, a group of hitmen entered the community looking for those who came to report, with photographs of them from the moment of the meeting with the authorities, they located the home of one of the complainants and the result was that his family was murdered, several people disappeared who were later found dead, and various homes and vehicles were burned.
Faced with these events, residents asked for help from the Federation, to be able to evacuate women and children from “El Gallito”, then soldiers came on May 23, achieving security “for 46 families who abandoned their homes and properties looking for save his life,” the source abounds.
And now, last Thursday, gunmen came to loot homes, steal or burn vehicles and machinery, burn or destroy houses, adding at least one murder and the disappearance of several men, residents of “El Gallito.”
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