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Video: Cartel feud sparks border shootout

Graban enfrentamiento entre sicarios en Chihuahua, México.
They record a confrontation between assassins in Chihuahua, Mexico.

Photo: Captures taken from the video of @ Elblogdelosgua1 / Courtesy

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For: The Opinion Updated 25 May 2022, 7: 00 am EDT

A video of the drug war which is waged at the border between Mexico and the United States for places for the sale of drugs, where assassins of cartels rivals staged a shootout in a mountainous area. According to local media, the events allegedly occurred in the municipality of Guadalupe y Calvo

, in the border state of Chihuahua, but Mexican authorities have neither confirmed nor denied the information.

A video of a confrontation is circulating on social networks between assassins in the mountains of the Guadalupe municipality and Calvo in the state of Chihuahua,

According to the prosecutor’s office, there is a ministerial presence in that area, which has not reported any clashes in recent days. pic.twitter.com/1qSrUPBJRg- Elblogdelosguachos (@Elblogdelosgua1) May 24, 2022

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The video, by 52 seconds long, shows a group of armed men, some in military uniform and others in black clothes, bulletproof vests and their faces covered, running from one side to the other. another amid the roar of gunfire. So far it is not known to which cartels the gunmen who participated in the confrontation belonged, nor if there were any deaths or injuries.

Chihuahua is part of the so-called “golden triangle” of drug trafficking , because it borders the states of Sinaloa and Durango. In addition, its location on the border makes it one of the favorite routes of the cartels to cross drugs into US territory. In December of 2022, state authorities detected the presence of a armed arm of the Jalisco Cartel New Generation (CJNG) and a cell known as the New Juárez Cartel (NCDJ); in addition to the commandos of the Sinaloa Cartel (CDS).

The state of Chihuahua ranked seventh nationally in the homicide rate, with 542 cases recorded from January to April 2022. The first place was occupied by Michoacán, with a thousand murders in four months , that state is also a battlefield for the CJNG and the four groups that make up the United Cartels.

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