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For: The opinion Updated Jan 07, 2023, 2:55 p.m. EST
Not even 10 days have passed since 2023 began and in Mexico organized crime continues to wreak havoc, with several casualties and arrests. In the state of Guerrero it was reported the death of Salvador Navarro Peñaloza, alias “El Zarco”head of a cell The Michoacan Familyof two of his brothers, as well as a brother of Eusebio Echeverría Tabárez, municipal president of Coyuca de Catalán.
According to versions circulating on social networks, an armed commando from La Familia Michoacana arrived in the Las Cruces population, of the aforementioned municipality belonging to the so-called Tierra Caliente, and starred in a confrontation with a rival group that allegedly left 20 dead.
When the authorities received the report, the investigations began and, some time later, the Coordination Table for the Construction of Peace in Guerrero issued a statement in which it ruled out indications of any confrontation or firearm detonations.
In addition, it was reported that after the complaint made to the emergency number 911, members of the Secretary of National Defense, the Navy and the National Guard, together with state police and Ministerial of the State Attorney General’s Office, remain in the area giving continuity to the reports to verify if the versions are true or just rumors.
In this regard, local media report that, derived from interviews with the inhabitants of the place, a strong confrontation did indeed occur in the town of Las Cruces, located in the municipality of Coyuca de Catalán.
According to what was reported on social networks, the irruption of the armed commandos of La Familia Michoacana was similar to the one carried out on October 5 in San Miguel Totolapan, when there was a a terrible massacre that claimed the lives of 23 peopleamong them the mayor Conrado Mendoza Almeda.
The same criminal group also perpetrated another attack on December 11 in the El Durazno community, in Coyuca de Catalán, where seven people were shot after being threatened by organized crime.
Unlike the previous massacres, in the one reported on January 6, the hitmen assassinated leaders of their own organization, according to what was narrated by the neighbors. According to the site El Blog del Narco, both “El Zarco” and the rest of the victims were betrayed Uriel Tabares Martinezalias “La perra” or “El Médico”, a criminal who has committed kidnappings, homicides, cattle and vehicle thefts in the Coyuca de Catalán area.
It is worth mentioning that La Familia Michoacana has devastated the Tierra Caliente region and in Coyuca de Catalán they have taken properties and ranches from several people in that municipality.
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