At least 35 shooting attacks in bars and clubswith a balance of more than 98 people killedhave been registered from January to date in Mexico as part of the criminal struggle in 16 entities.
The massacres have been against criminal leaders, soldiers, ministerial police, and also against civilians, including minors, who had no connection with any cartel.
The most recent cases such as that of Cuautitlán Izcalli, in the State of Mexico, where 6 people were massacred in the “Bling Bling” bar, show how nightclubs are used for violencewhich the authorities have not been able to stop.
Last Sunday, in the community of San Francisco Tepojaco, the attack was recorded, according to authorities, against two men accused of selling drugs, extortion and robbery; They were related to a cell similar to the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) and now with the Independent Cartel.
Another of the victims was Rogelio, a 21-year-old soldier, who according to family members had no relationship with the aforementioned subjects.
Last Saturday, in the city of Querétaro, 10 people were massacred by an attack by the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel which was addressed to Fernando González Núñez, alias “La Flaca”, leader of the CJNG, who was accompanied.
However, the bullets hit young people like Fátima Ramos or Berenice López who, according to family members, were in different groups.
In that same entity, on November 8, three men were murdered while working in a building that would be converted into a nightclub, in the Colonia Centro Sur.
A month before, on October 4, Emiliano Cuevas, vocalist of the narcocorrido group “Emiliano y Grupo Penumbre,” was also murdered in Querétaro.along with accordionist David Noria in the parking lot of the “El Mezcalito” bar.
This Monday the municipality of Querétaro closed 10 irregular bars and it was announced that they will expand inspections in these entertainment centers.
In this regard, Grupo Reforma confirmed, according to official as well as journalistic reports, that other attacks have also affected entities such as Guanajuato, Tabasco, Morelos, Aguascalientes, Yucatán, CDMX, Guerrero, Michoacán, Baja California, Zacatecas, Jalisco, Quintana Roo , Sonora and Nuevo León.
On October 13, Juan Carlos Martínez, an investigative police officer for the FGE in Aguascalientes, was murdered in a shooting inside the “Hermoso Cariño” bar, where a civilian also died.
In Tijuana, Baja California, there is a bar called “La Cueva del Peludo”, where at least 7 murders have been recorded so far this yearthe last of them last weekend, for which authorities have already assured that they consider it a source of violence in the border area.
Keep reading:
– “La Flaca”, the objective for which the massacre of 10 people occurred in a bar in Querétaro.
– Massacre in Tabasco: Hitmen break into a bar and murder 6 people in AMLO’s land.