By The opinion
09 Dec 2023, 11:20 AM EST
2023 began violently in Mexico, and it seems that it will end the same, or worse, as can be seen with the recent confrontation in the community of Texcaltitlán, located in the State of Mexico, where the inhabitants, tired of extortion, They confronted members of the cartel The Michoacan Family in a bloody event that left 14 people deadmost of them hitmen.
Four other people were injured and two more are missing, according to the newspaper Milenio. Three residents died when confronting the members of that criminal group that They were charged “floor rights”while 8 deceased were hitmen who were the target of the fury of a tired society.
And the fact is that La Familia Michoacana has been the cause of several violent events that have the population in check, so on the night of December 8 the inhabitants decided to take action on the matter when they were gathered on a soccer field, discussing the quota that was required of them to be able to plant.
Massacres of the Michoacana Family
According to the Common Cause Organization, From January to October 2023, 355 massacres were recorded in Mexico. In the State of Mexico 14 occurred, in Guerrero 38 and in Michoacán 17.
Last October, the municipality of Coyuca de Benítez, in Guerrero, experienced a tragedy when 13 police officers were executedincluding the local Security Secretary and the operational director, after an ambush while they were on a tour, those responsible were members of La Familia Michoacana, according to the newspaper El Financiero.
In the same state of Guerrero, several attacks occurred during the first months of this year. In April, members of the cartel spread a video on social networks in which they showed their confrontations with other criminal groups.
Other massacres
The number of massacres in Mexico is alarming, since the average in which these atrocities occur per day is 1.3, one of the most recent occurred in Celaya, Guanajuato, where 6 university students were executedand their bodies were located inside an abandoned vehicle on a dirt road.
In another event, which occurred in the month of May, 10 people died and 9 others were injured during a shooting at a rally in Baja California. On that occasion, authorities attributed the attack to disputes between criminal gangs, AFP reported.
Weeks before, on April 16, a massacre occurred in a resort in Cortazar, Guanajuato, where seven people were murdered, six were members of a family. They were three women, three men and a seven-year-old child, El Financiero reported.
On January 28 other seven people were murdered inside a bar in Jerez, Zacatecas. Local media reported that a group of armed men arrived at the site and opened fire on those present.
Bars were the places where the most massacres occurred this year, and the most affected states were Guanajuato, Veracruz and Zacatecas. Furthermore, the victims for each event were between five and 12, which shows the cruelty with which organized crime acts in Mexico.
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