A group of armed civilians raided Wednesday in the town hall of San Miguel Totolapan, in southern Mexico, e Mayor Conrado Mendoza killed. Like this simultaneousanother attack ensued he killed his father. Although there is no official confirmation, authorities have indicated there is many more dead, including policemen.
Mendoza, of the left-wing Democratic Revolution Party (PRD), died later murderers of a criminal group they stormed the town hall at 2pm, in broad daylight.
“An operation was deployed to locate and arrest those responsible for the armed attack, in which the mayor was deprived of life” Mendoza, prayed in a statement from the Peace Building Coordination in which the authorities participate. state and federal.
“It should be emphasized that in the area where they occurred a Mixed Operating Base has already been established to strengthen and guarantee the security of the inhabitants of the region in question, it is also important to remember that the Ministry of National Defense has units and mobile areas of land deployed to assist in the actions needed to take care of the inhabitants, “they added.
The town hall ended with numerous holes from the impact of the bulletsas they showed images that spread on social networks.
According to local media, the raid on the town hall was part of a series of acts coordinated attacksin which he was also killed the mayor’s father, Juan Mendozaalso former municipal president.
Also, a video shows the balance after the attack, with at least eight bodies on the ground, in the midst of a bloodbath.
With the death of Conrado Mendoza, they are already there 94 mayors murdered in Mexico since 2000.
The PRD condemned the “vile murder” of the mayor on Twitter. “We demand justice, enough impunity,” says the message.
“I am deeply sorry for the delicate death of the mayor of San Miguel Totolapan, Conrado Mendoza Almeda. I condemn the events and repeat it in the government of Guerrero there will be no impunity in the face of cunning aggression against the municipal president and city council officials, “wrote Governor Evelyn Salgado Pineda.
The group behind the mayor’s assassination in southern Mexico
According to the local press, the attackers are a cell of the criminal group “The tequila”from the state of Jalisco (west) and which would be an ally of the powerful Jalisco New Generation sign.
After the attack, the accesses to the town, of about 4,300 inhabitants and located in the so-called hot land of Guerrero, were blocked with trucks and buses seized by the assailants.
After the attack on Wednesday, a video circulated on social media in which alleged members of the group claimed the attack.
“Did they think we weren’t coming back? Children of their fucking mother! I’ve already killed the first one. Here I am in San Miguel, come take me out if you’re such a jerk. And we’re not leaving “, exclaims the alleged leader of the group, before shouting” Los Tequileros “.
“Los Tequileros” is a criminal group that operated in the Tierra Caliente area of Guerrero. It was strong in that region until 2018, when they stayed dismantled after the death of their leaderJaybel Jacobo de Almonte.
record of Mexico over 340,000 murdersmost attributed to criminal organizations, since the launch of a controversial military drug offensive in December 2006.
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Source: Clarin
