Photo: Screenshot taken from the video by @CiroGomezL / Courtesy
By: Real America News Updated 16 May 2022, 10: 54 am EDT
An armed command of the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG) literally “chased” a convoy of Mexican soldiers and managed to expel them from their territory, in the municipality of Nueva Italia, in Michoacán, a state located in the Mexican Pacific coast. According to Mexican media, 16 Army soldiers were forced to leave a base vehicle control, as seen in a video circulating on social networks.
A convoy of at least 4 Army patrols was chased by civilians aboard 7 trucks in New Italy, #Michoacán. And after the reappearance of Andrés Roemer, his son, Alejandro Roemer, assured that his father tried to take his own life. This and more news on @ImagenTVMex:
— Ciro Gómez Leyva (@CiroGomezL) May 10, 2022
They chase the military. This is how a convoy of at least 4 Army patrols was chased by civilians aboard 7 trucks in the community of Nueva Italia, #Michoacán: pic.twitter.com/82JqefR4EO
— Ciro Gómez Leyva (@CiroGomezL) May 11, 2022
In this recording you can see three trucks of hit men from the Jalisco Nueva Cartel Generation chasing the military, between shouts of: “Throw him!”, “Throw him!”. Given this, the Secretary of National Defense (Sedena) has remained silent, as occurred in three similar cases that occurred between April and May, in which drug trafficker groups have attacked members of the Army.
It should be noted that the area that goes from La Huacana to Uruapan is considered one of the most important strongholds of the CJNG in the state of Michoacán, according to reports from the state police. In the case of the municipality of Apatzingán, the plaza is in the midst of a bloody battle between the Jalisco New Generation Cartel and the United Cartels.
By the way, the government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador sent Michoacán to 900 elements of the Army to fight the drug cartels that operate in that state. The soldiers will settle in the most violent and dangerous municipalities such as:
Morelia (the capital), Uruapan and Zamora. The problems arising from the drug war consist in the fact that during the first three months of the 2022 there were 600 intentional homicides in Michoacán, 100 more than in the first trimester of 2021.