Thursday, January 06, 2022
Mexico drug war
Car full of corpses stands in front of the authorities
Three drug cartels are vying for power in the Mexican state of Zacatecas. Now security forces discover ten bodies in a car in the capital of the state. The perpetrators publicly placed the car in front of the regional government headquarters.
A car with ten bodies was parked in front of the government palace of the Mexican state of Zacatecas. The dead were apparently mutilated, said Governor David Monreal in a video on Facebook. The car was parked early in the morning (local time) and the driver fled, he said from the central square of the capital of the central Mexican state, which is also called Zacatecas, which is still decorated for Christmas. The background was unclear.
In Zacatecas, the Sinaloa, Los Talibanes and Jalisco Nueva Generación cartels are fighting for supremacy in the illegal drugs trade. It was only at the end of November that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador visited the region and announced the dispatch of hundreds of additional soldiers, after 15 bodies strung in public places had been discovered within a few days.
Mexico has been plagued by a spiral of violence between drug cartels and state security forces for around 15 years. Since then President Felipe Calderón began militarily fighting the so-called drug war at the end of 2006, around 350,000 people have fallen victim to it. Another 96,000 are considered to have disappeared. Today there are numerous powerful drug cartels and other criminal groups, often linked to corrupt politicians and security forces. Most of the crimes are never resolved.
Last year, the number of murders in the North American country fell by a good four percent to 33,410 – according to preliminary figures presented by President Obrador today. That’s around 92 murders a day.
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