By "El Huaso" for Borderland Beat
Five men were killed in a gunfight in front of the Municipal offices in Santiago Amoltepec, Oaxaca. A Facebook post by the current mayor claims the attackers are the sons of the previous mayor, who were trying to storm the mayors office and assassinate his administration.
The attack occurred yesterday afternoon, February 14, 2023, right in front of the white and red municipal offices of Santiago Amoltepec, a small, rural town in Southern Oaxaca. Local news reports five deaths and one injured, while a post from the local government confirms five deaths, but claims more were injured.
Photos showing the aftermath of the attack show the bodies of five men with AR-15 platform rifles lying in the street, next to a blue Toyota Tacoma pickup truck. Municipal officials peer down at the carnage from the balconies of their offices.
Following the event, a post on the municipal government's official Facebook page claimed those killed were attackers, who intended to storm the municipal offices and kill the sitting mayor, Mario Hernández Garcia, and his cabinet. According to the post, the attackers were repelled and killed in the resulting gunfight by local police and civilians.
The post identifies the attackers as the sons of the previous mayor Abel Garcia Santiago along with two of their bodyguards.
According to NVI Noticias, while the National Guard and the State Attorneys General are investigating, so far no one has been detained for the killings.
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This story will be updated as new information surfaces.
Sources: NVI Noticias, Rio Oaxaca, Official Amoltepec Facebook
Good guys won this time, that rarely happens.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the "official story". who really knows what happened. very heavily armed body guards for such a small town
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DeleteRead the article, before you draw your own conclusions.
Sons of previous Mayor came to kill employees and the current Mayor.
They lost.
Agreed, friend. But it is a weird event. The attackers came heavily armed.
DeleteBut the defenders (both police and armed civilains) repelled and killed them. No such thing as "armed civilian" in Mexico, thats a paramilitray group/autodefensa/or criminal.
So i agree the attackers were the attackers, but were the defenders squeaky clean?
The current Mayor was tipped off, days ahead, he got his defense team, at the ready.
DeleteThis is more of a political shit, cause if i remember right Abel Garcia Santiago was killed so maybe his sons were looking for revange and got killed, no good guys here
Delete@anonymous, do you have a source for that, this is interesting.
Delete2:52 which anonymus are you talking to? Every comment is anonymus
DeleteThere was a video of CJNG convoy with same building in background, is this same place?
ReplyDeleteDo you have a link? Could be. This style of building is quite common.
DeleteNope
DeleteI hail from the area. A land dispute is the main reason behind them storming the municipio. If there's one thing Oaxacans protect zealously, its their private agricultural property. Most disputes stem from issues over communal land, trespassing, etc.
ReplyDeleteLooks like they didn’t make it far. Like they got killed they where exiting that Tacoma
ReplyDeletewas my thought too. just exited the vehicle and got shot.
DeleteSecurity was ready I guess. Halcones doing their job
DeleteWho owns this area.
ReplyDeleteNo one "owns" the area. There are petty marijuana dealers but that is it. This was not cartel related. The shooting was over disputed land rights.
ReplyDeleteNot cartel related but living in a violent society results in more people being violent in situations that dont warrant violence.
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