“We are coming for “El Marro”: 700 National Guard to Celaya, Guanajuato

Yaqui for Borderland Beat from: Radio Formula

More than 1200 elements of the National Guard will arrive in Guanajuato:

The governor of Guanajuato reported that 700 elements will be sent to Celaya, where ongoing violence and extorsion of the business community has led to massive protests in the streets over the last couple of weeks; touched off by the closing of Celaya's Ford Dealership and the murder of a University student. Both were covered here on BB.

The governor of Guanajuato , Diego Sinhue Rodríguez Vallejo confirmed that 1209 elements of the National Guard will arrive in the state.

In an interview with Ciro Gómez Leyva on the news  program In the Morning , the mayor said that yesterday the head of the Secretary of State government, Luis Ernesto Ayala,  met with the Secretary of Public Security, Alfonso Durazo,  and agreed to send more elements of the Guard National to municipalities with the highest rates of violence.

Rodríguez Vallejo explained that, of the 1209 elements, 700 will be sent to Celaya , because there have been several clashes between authorities and criminal organizations, so they need to strengthen security.

“The criminal group that was located in Santa Rosa de Lima has been retreating and the the citizens of Celaya have been the objective of their misdeeds, they have been extorting, we have arrested two groups of extortionists and we are searching for  another one, but we are already after them through the Prosecutor’s Office. ”

Also, the governor took the opportunity to thank the support of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Durazo .

"It is good that this force is deployed, this is essential to combat the theft of fuel, we are no longer going to be one of  the states in which  more fuel is stolen," he said.