Mexico City: A Medicine the gang 20 people, including a mayor and his father, were shot and killed in the mountains of southern Mexico. Officials gave this information on Thursday. A video posted on social media showed people who identified themselves as the Tequileros gang taking responsibility for a mass shooting in the state of Guerrero.
Guerrero State Security Council said gunmen broke into the town hall in the village of San Miguel Totolapán on Wednesday and were meeting the mayor with other officials.
Among the dead were Mayor Conrado Mendoza and his father, Juan Mendoza Acosta, the city’s former mayor. Most of the other victims are believed to have been local officials.
The walls of the town hall, which was then surrounded by children’s fair rides, were left riddled with bullets.
Totolapan is geographically large, but has a mountainous settlement in an area known as Tierra Caliente, one of Mexico’s most conflict-ridden regions.
Mexico’s assistant secretary of public security Ricardo Mejia said Tequileros was fighting the Familia Michoacana gang in the region and the authenticity of the video was being verified.
“The act happened in the context of a dispute between criminal gangs,” Mejia said. “A group known as the Tequileros dominated the area for some time; this was a group that mainly smuggled and distributed opium, but also engaged in kidnapping, extortion and numerous murders in the region. Included.”
Tolapan was controlled by whom for years? medicine Gang boss Rebel Jacobo de Almonte, better known by his nickname “El Tequilaro”, “The Tequila Drinker”.
In his only known public appearance, de Alamonte was caught drinking in 2015 with the elder Mendoza, who was the city’s mayor-elect at the time. It was not clear whether the elder Mendoza was there of his own free will, or was forced to attend the meeting.
In that video, de Alamonte appeared to be so drunk that he mumbled inaudibly and had to be held in a sitting position by one of his henchmen.
In 2016, the Totolapan locals became so fed up with the kidnapping by the tequileros that they kidnapped the gang leader’s mother in order to take advantage of the others’ release.
While tequileros had long relied on the smuggling of opium paste from local opium producers, the increased use of the synthetic opioid fentanyl reduced demand for opium paste and reduced the level of violence in Guerrero.
Also on Wednesday, in the neighboring state of Morelos, a state legislator was shot dead in the southern city of Cuernavaca. Mexico City,
State Deputy Gabriella Marin was fatally shot by two armed men on motorcycles as she exited a vehicle outside a pharmacy. One person is reported to have been injured along with Marin in the attack.
“Based on the information we have, we cannot rule out any political motive,” Mejia said of the murder.
“The deceased, Gabriella Marin, took office as legislator in July, following the death of another member of the legislature, and there were several legal disputes over the seat.”
Mendoza’s assassination brought the number of mayors and state lawmakers killed during the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to eight, according to data from Atletcat Consultants.
Mexico’s Congress is debating the president’s proposal this week to extend the military’s policing duties through 2028. Last month, lawmakers apparently approved pressure from López Obrador to move the civilian National Guard under military control.
While attacks on public officials are not uncommon in Mexico, they come at a time when Lopez Obrador’s security strategy is hotly debated.
The president has placed greater responsibility in the armed forces than in the civilian police to rein in the continuing high levels of violence in Mexico. He vowed to continue, saying, “We have to keep doing the same thing, because it has brought results.”
López Obrador sought to blame the previous administration for Mexico’s persistent problem of violence.
López Obrador said, “These are (criminal) organizations that have been there for a long time, that did not emerge in this administration.” He also blamed locals in the Tierra Caliente area for supporting the gang – and sometimes even elected them to office.
“There are still communities that protect these groups, and even vote them into office as officers,” the president said.
Guerrero State Security Council said gunmen broke into the town hall in the village of San Miguel Totolapán on Wednesday and were meeting the mayor with other officials.
Among the dead were Mayor Conrado Mendoza and his father, Juan Mendoza Acosta, the city’s former mayor. Most of the other victims are believed to have been local officials.
The walls of the town hall, which was then surrounded by children’s fair rides, were left riddled with bullets.
Totolapan is geographically large, but has a mountainous settlement in an area known as Tierra Caliente, one of Mexico’s most conflict-ridden regions.
Mexico’s assistant secretary of public security Ricardo Mejia said Tequileros was fighting the Familia Michoacana gang in the region and the authenticity of the video was being verified.
“The act happened in the context of a dispute between criminal gangs,” Mejia said. “A group known as the Tequileros dominated the area for some time; this was a group that mainly smuggled and distributed opium, but also engaged in kidnapping, extortion and numerous murders in the region. Included.”
Tolapan was controlled by whom for years? medicine Gang boss Rebel Jacobo de Almonte, better known by his nickname “El Tequilaro”, “The Tequila Drinker”.
In his only known public appearance, de Alamonte was caught drinking in 2015 with the elder Mendoza, who was the city’s mayor-elect at the time. It was not clear whether the elder Mendoza was there of his own free will, or was forced to attend the meeting.
In that video, de Alamonte appeared to be so drunk that he mumbled inaudibly and had to be held in a sitting position by one of his henchmen.
In 2016, the Totolapan locals became so fed up with the kidnapping by the tequileros that they kidnapped the gang leader’s mother in order to take advantage of the others’ release.
While tequileros had long relied on the smuggling of opium paste from local opium producers, the increased use of the synthetic opioid fentanyl reduced demand for opium paste and reduced the level of violence in Guerrero.
Also on Wednesday, in the neighboring state of Morelos, a state legislator was shot dead in the southern city of Cuernavaca. Mexico City,
State Deputy Gabriella Marin was fatally shot by two armed men on motorcycles as she exited a vehicle outside a pharmacy. One person is reported to have been injured along with Marin in the attack.
“Based on the information we have, we cannot rule out any political motive,” Mejia said of the murder.
“The deceased, Gabriella Marin, took office as legislator in July, following the death of another member of the legislature, and there were several legal disputes over the seat.”
Mendoza’s assassination brought the number of mayors and state lawmakers killed during the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to eight, according to data from Atletcat Consultants.
Mexico’s Congress is debating the president’s proposal this week to extend the military’s policing duties through 2028. Last month, lawmakers apparently approved pressure from López Obrador to move the civilian National Guard under military control.
While attacks on public officials are not uncommon in Mexico, they come at a time when Lopez Obrador’s security strategy is hotly debated.
The president has placed greater responsibility in the armed forces than in the civilian police to rein in the continuing high levels of violence in Mexico. He vowed to continue, saying, “We have to keep doing the same thing, because it has brought results.”
López Obrador sought to blame the previous administration for Mexico’s persistent problem of violence.
López Obrador said, “These are (criminal) organizations that have been there for a long time, that did not emerge in this administration.” He also blamed locals in the Tierra Caliente area for supporting the gang – and sometimes even elected them to office.
“There are still communities that protect these groups, and even vote them into office as officers,” the president said.