By "El Huaso" for Borderland Beat
Yesterday evening, Alejandro Camacho Escobar, the Guanajuato Sub Secretary of Citizen Security, was killed by three armed gunmen in tactical gear while driving outside Guanajuato City.
According to El Financiero, Escobar was attacked around 5:15 p.m. while driving on the Puentecillas highway near Centro de Readaptación Social (Cereso) in the southern outskirts of the city. Periodico Correo however reported that he was attacked outside his home in the same neighborhood.
Authorities report the attackers were aboard a black Chevrolet Avalanche pickup truck. The attackers fled the scene and despite security force searches in the southern part of the city, neither the attackers nor vehicle have not been located.
According to N+ Noticias, there were three attackers, all in tactical gear.
The mayor of Guanajuato City, Alejandro Navarro posted the news on his Facebook page. Mayor Navarro remembered Escobar as an "incorruptible" man who "deserved all my respect and confidence".
In a radio interview, Navarro said that the attack was a threat from an organized crime group to the city's security forces for challenging their operations, reported Zona Franca.
According to Mexican think tank Causa en Común, 346 police officers have been killed in the state of Guanajuato since 2018. Guanajuato has had the most police officers killed in Mexico every year except for 2022, when Zacatecas topped the list. This year, Guanajuato once again leads the count with 19 killed so far.
Guanajuato is the most violent state in Mexico since 2018, amassing a total of 20,292 deaths. Most of this violence is related to the conflict between the Cártel Santa Rosa de Lima (CSRL), and the Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) for control of the state's meth and fuel theft markets.
That's crazy ot used to be chihuahua the most dangerous state then state of Mexico then guanajuato
ReplyDeleteYes it is. Border states used to be the most violent, now the center of Mexico is hot.
DeleteI think it is linked to the shift towards domestic criminal markets unrelated to the border, like extortion, local drug sales, fuel theft etc
True, more organized crime than just Narcos. GTO is also a hotbed of illegal mining and theft of equipment and ore from mines.
DeleteThere use to be a clear line between drug traffickers and criminal gangs. Drug traffickers did strictly that with occasional targeted assassination and the "pandillas" use to steal, extort and kidnap. I'm not sure at which point the shift occurred, maybe during the Calderon administration when the Gulf cartel split with the ZETA's and the government dried up their source of revenue. I think that's when we started seeing these criminal organizations dip into the drug trade and the line started to blur.
Delete@ 12:09 As I understand it, the Zetas lost the Gulf cartel cocaine contacts in Colombia. They needed revenue, so they diversified. Thats where I think it began
DeleteHow many more decent people have to get killed and or tortured to death by psycho tweakers with guns before Mexican's finally realize that their government has lost control of the country and also has sublet the country to psycho drug dealers and that they really need foreign help to sort this out
ReplyDelete1146 The large majority of those homicides are criminals dying at the hands of other criminals. The U.S is eager to get involved because U.S politicians and the military industrial complex would profit from another war.
Delete@12:14 No profit in helping Mexico. Just one big headache. The only question is, is not helping, a bigger headache than helping. Either way, Mexico isn't able to sort it out themselves. That much is obvious
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DeleteCitizens are getting slaughtered everyday, even this ambush does not raise eyebrows in the government of Lopez Obrador, he can care a rats azz.
Curuption at it's finest.
The U.S cannot help mexico,it is neither wanted or appreciated,it will always be looked on with distrust and scorn,stay out.
DeleteIf this guy was incorruptible it is a big loss to mexico but no one will care and they will always say he was killed by the other side
ReplyDeleteThere's no incorruptible politician in mexico
ReplyDeleteIt appears that Mexico lost another honest and brave agent. D.E.P.
ReplyDeleteMexico been going down hill.
DeleteIt would appear so...never know unfortunetly
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