Attackers kill 18 in assault on town corridor in southern Mexico
MEXICO Metropolis — Attackers gunned down a mayor, his father and 16 other men and women in the southern Mexico point out of Guerrero on Wednesday, authorities reported.
State Attorney Normal Sandra Luz Valdovinos instructed Milenio television late Wednesday that 18 folks ended up killed and two were being wounded in the town of San Miguel Totolapan. Between the useless were Mayor Conrado Mendoza and his father, a previous mayor of the city, she said. Two more individuals were being wounded.
Photographs from the scene showed a bullet-riddled city corridor.
Later on Wednesday, in the neighboring state of Morelos, a state lawmaker was shot to death in the town of Cuernavaca south of Mexico Metropolis.
Although assaults on community officials are not unusual in Mexico, these appear at a time when the security system of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is remaining sharply debated. The president has positioned incredible obligation on the armed forces fairly than civilian police for reining in Mexico’s persistently higher concentrations of violence.
San Miguel Totolapan is a remote township in Tierra Caliente, which is one of Mexico’s most conflict-ridden areas, disputed by multiple drug trafficking gangs.
In 2016, Totolapan locals fed up with abductions by the community gang “Los Tequileros” kidnapped the gang leader’s mom to leverage the release of many others.
In Cuernavaca, Morelos Condition Attorney General Uriel Carmona said two armed men traveling on a motorbike fatally shot state Deputy Gabriela Marín as she exited a vehicle.
Area stores said Marín, a member of the Morelos Development social gathering, was killed at a pharmacy in Cuernavaca. A particular person with Marín was reportedly wounded in the attack.
Morelos Gov. Cuauhtémoc Blanco condemned the attack and stated by means of Twitter that stability forces ended up deployed in research of the attackers.
The fatalities of Mendoza and Marín introduced the range of mayors killed for the duration of López Obrador’s administration to 18 and the quantity of state lawmakers to eight, according to facts from Etellekt Consultores.
Mexico’s Congress this week is debating the president’s proposal to extend the military’s policing responsibilities to 2028. Very last thirty day period, lawmakers authorized López Obrador’s thrust to transfer the ostensibly civilian National Guard to army handle.
MEXICO Metropolis — Attackers gunned down a mayor, his father and 16 other men and women in the southern Mexico point out of Guerrero on Wednesday, authorities reported.
State Attorney Normal Sandra Luz Valdovinos instructed Milenio television late Wednesday that 18 folks ended up killed and two were being wounded in the town of San Miguel Totolapan. Between the useless were Mayor Conrado Mendoza and his father, a previous mayor of the city, she said. Two more individuals were being wounded.
Photographs from the scene showed a bullet-riddled city corridor.
Later on Wednesday, in the neighboring state of Morelos, a state lawmaker was shot to death in the town of Cuernavaca south of Mexico Metropolis.
Although assaults on community officials are not unusual in Mexico, these appear at a time when the security system of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is remaining sharply debated. The president has positioned incredible obligation on the armed forces fairly than civilian police for reining in Mexico’s persistently higher concentrations of violence.
San Miguel Totolapan is a remote township in Tierra Caliente, which is one of Mexico’s most conflict-ridden areas, disputed by multiple drug trafficking gangs.
In 2016, Totolapan locals fed up with abductions by the community gang “Los Tequileros” kidnapped the gang leader’s mom to leverage the release of many others.
In Cuernavaca, Morelos Condition Attorney General Uriel Carmona said two armed men traveling on a motorbike fatally shot state Deputy Gabriela Marín as she exited a vehicle.
Area stores said Marín, a member of the Morelos Development social gathering, was killed at a pharmacy in Cuernavaca. A particular person with Marín was reportedly wounded in the attack.
Morelos Gov. Cuauhtémoc Blanco condemned the attack and stated by means of Twitter that stability forces ended up deployed in research of the attackers.
The fatalities of Mendoza and Marín introduced the range of mayors killed for the duration of López Obrador’s administration to 18 and the quantity of state lawmakers to eight, according to facts from Etellekt Consultores.
Mexico’s Congress this week is debating the president’s proposal to extend the military’s policing responsibilities to 2028. Very last thirty day period, lawmakers authorized López Obrador’s thrust to transfer the ostensibly civilian National Guard to army handle.