By: The opinion Posted 06 Sep 2023, 13:22 pm EDT
The violence caused by organized crime in the state of Guerrero was present once again, and on this occasion it claimed the lives of Juan Carlos Vitrago FloresDirector of Public Security for the municipality of Juan R. Escudero, who was murdered along with three other officers.
According to the first reports, the agents were traveling aboard a patrol car when they were ambushed by several armed men, who shot at them, causing the police unit to overturn.
As a result of this attack, four officers died and two more were wounded. Moments later, the director of Public Security was identified as one of the fatalities, and it was reported that He had only been in office for two months..
The State Attorney General’s Office reported, through a press release, that ministerial police officers and Expert Services agents went to the place to carry out the corresponding investigations and to determine which criminal group was behind the attack.
The municipality of Juan R. Escudero, where the ambush occurred, is in the center of Guerrero, where violence has escalated in the last three months, due to the rivalry between criminal groups. The Squirrels and The Tlacos.
As if this were not enough, the incursion of the cartel The Michoacan Family through the state’s mountains has also left dozens of people murdered, disappeared, and devastated towns in the areas where the Costa Grande, North, Central, and Tierra Caliente regions converge.
Data from the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC) of Mexico consulted by the EFE agency, indicate that Guerrero ranks seventh in the country in number of homicides, with 800 murders in the first half of 2023.
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