VIDEO: People defend their forest from the La Familia Michoacana Cartel; Hitmen wound 2 agents

Photo: Facebook Guajes de Ayala / Reform Agency / Courtesy

The La Familia Michoacana Cartel (LFM) injured two elements of the National Guard after they confronted authorities in the community of Guajes de Ayala , in the municipality of Coyuca de Catalan , in the Sierra de Guerrero , in southern Mexico where even residents had armed themselves against the drug trafficking group to defend their forest.

According to the residents of that town who have denounced the siege by the criminal gang, the elements of the armed forces suffered two confrontations with the crime.

a confrontation (…) where unfortunately there were two elements of the National Guard wounded by gunshot wounds, ”he said in a live broadcast on Facebook the secretary of the presidency of the ejido of Guajes de Ayala , Javier Hernández.

The peasant leader assured that the federal and state security forces managed to arrest two gunmen.

He detailed that a helicopter landed in the vicinity where the two clashes took place to pick up the wounded elements and transfer them to a hospital.

In the video, Hernández pointed out that when the second confrontation occurred, the state Secretary of Public Security was barely arriving in a helicopter, David Portillo Menchaca .

The governor Héctor Astudillo assured that in that area of ​​the Sierra there are no reports of clashes such as They denounced women sheltered in a health center.

Hernández described the statements of the politician as “irresponsible” and criticized the inaction of the state government to stop r to Cartel of La Familia Michoacana .

Besieged by La Familia Michoacana

In 2019, the ejido began logging, after receiving in 2016 a permit issued by the environmental authorities, but they reported that in March of 2020, an armed group, accompanied by the Army , evicted them of the area this as a result of the price of opium gum falling, so the criminal group sought to diversify its business.

Given this , the inhabitants decided to arm themselves to protect their forests from criminals and, since that date, homicides, robberies, threats and extortion have not stopped.

In October 2020, the president of the Conse Jo de Vigilancia, Elías Gallegos , defender of the forest, and his son were date know nothing about them.

In a letter addressed to the UN last April to request humanitarian aid, the inhabitants blamed the brothers Víctor and Juan Espino Cortez, from La Familia Michoacana , which in the region of Tierra Caliente is directed by Jhonny Hurtado aka the Fish and José Alfredo Hurtado , alias the Strawberry.