On Wednesday afternoon, the attorney general of Guerrero, Sandra Luz Valdovinos, said that the attack had originally left 18 people dead and two injured.
This Thursday, Valdovinos told the Televisión Azteca network that he still there are no detainees for the massacre. “From the inquiries collected, there is not enough evidence to determine who is probably responsible,” she explained.
Ricardo Mejía also added that the murders occurred in the context of disputes between criminal groups in the area, including one known as “The tequila makers“, dedicated to the transfer of poppy, kidnapping and extortion, and another group called “The Family Michoacán“.
Vital area for drug trafficking
San Miguel Totolapan is part of a region known as Land Hotwhere they converge Warrior, Michoacan (west) and the condition of Mexico (central). This area is vital for drug transfer arriving at the ports of Guerrero en route to Mexico City.
“The area has passed through the control of different groups,” security analyst David Saucedo told AFP. “It is possible that the murder was due to a dispute between the ‘Tequileros’ and ‘La Familia Michoacana’ for control of the municipality.”
The Tequileros had acted years before in this community, perpetrating above all kidnappings extortive, but its influence was diminished in 2018 after the death of one of its leaders in a clash with community police. According to the press, days ago, alleged messages from this criminal cell circulated in the community in which they threatened to return to San Miguel Totolapan.
“There is already a serious dispute over the territory,” he says for his part Daniel Dark, editor of the Animal Político portal and a native of the area. “The ‘pax narca’ is over and the concern is very great because the civilian population is the one affected”.
The alliance between drug traffickers and politicians in Mexico
For more than two decades, Guerrero, on the Pacific coast and one of the poorest states in Mexico, has been shaken by violence unleashed by the presence of rival groups seeking to control drug trafficking and cultivation of poppy and marijuana.
Organized crime groups are linked to politics in the area, which has made it difficult to pacify the state despite the deployment of federal forces. “We have a series of feudal lords, warlords, drug traffickers who control various areas of the state and political parties. instead of fighting these structures, they have relied on them to win electionsSaucedo said.
The attack occurred a day after the Mexican Senate approved a controversial reform supported by the president’s government Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to keep the army in security work public until 2028.
Mexico has recorded more than 340,000 murders, most attributed to drug cartels, since the launch of a controversial military anti-drug offensive in December 2006.
Source: Ambito
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