Four were killed after an armed group attacked civilians at a packed soccer field yesterday evening in Cárdenas, Guanajuato. The event is similar to another attack which left eight dead last month in San José de Mendoza, a town just eight kilometers away.
Gunmen arrived just before 5:00 PM on 14 April, and without saying a word, opened fire on civilians and their families, killing four and injured another two.
According to witnesses, security forces did not arrive for 20 minutes after receiving the alert.
Similarity to an earlier attack at a soccer field in San José de Mendoza, Guanajuato
This event is similar in several ways to an earlier attack that occured on March 16, 2025. In this attack, an armed group showed up at a soccer field and opened fire on those playing and watching. The final toll from this event was eight dead and five more injured. The victims were all young men, members of Pastoral Juvenil de Irapuato, a local church youth group, unrelated to organized crime.
This attack occured in San José de Mendoza, Guanajuato, just eight kilomenters away from the most recent shooting.
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| Photos of the funeral for the murdered men. |
This attack was a random shooting related to conflict between two organized crime groups, according to Ganajuato-based source consulted by Borderland Beat. This attack was a random act of violence intended to attract law enforcement attention to territory controlled by a rival criminal group, increasing government pressure on them - a tactic called "calentando la plaza" (heating up the plaza).
Guanajuato is the most violent state in Mexico by a wide margin based on a variety of measures, from police killings, to homicides, to massacres. Unfortunately, events like these are quite common in the state. With 77 massacres (attacks with three or more deaths) in 2024, Guanajuato state leads the nation by a wide margin.
The conflict is between two criminal organizations, the Cártel Santa Rosa de Lima (CSRL), and the Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG), who have contested control of Guanajuato's criminal economies of fuel theft, drug dealing, and prostitution since the mid-2010s. Events like these are typically related to this fight. Businesses and locations which are assumed to be affiliated with a rival organized crime group - such as bars or tire repair shops (vulcanizadoras) can be targeted with violence.
March 16 Attack - @LuisCardenasMx
Concealed carry should be a right in Mexico, how else will neighbors defend themselves and each other? Aint no way I'm living in Mexico without a piece on me.
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DeleteYes that is a good idea, but the Mexican government f it up.
If a citizen gets caught with a weapon, they throw the book at them, meaning they get jail time. Then if a criminal gets caught with a rifle, they pay a good bribe, they are out in a day.
Guns create more violence.
DeleteWont solve any problems. Just look at your own country.
Deleteif they want you dead a little pistol isn't gonna save you. even a rifle won't. they can protect you from like burglars or rapists or whatever but not against an organised armed force.
DeleteThe CIA is establishing the Americas Counternarcotics Mission Center, combining its counternarcotics and Western Hemisphere teams to enable faster, more effective collaboration, CIA Deputy Director Michael Ellis stated, adding that the mission is to become a "finely tuned machine" to dismantle cartels, labeled foreign terrorists by the Trump administration. According to Ellis, the agency will leverage its 25 years+ of expertise in targeting jihadist networks to disrupt the cartels' international operations.
Delete@ 1045 lmao spoken like a true pussy
DeleteKeep that concealed carry garbage in the US
Delete"Just look at your own country." Lol Obama did and tried to bury the CDC study he had funded because it found that millions of crimes are stopped or prevented annually in the US. And people cause violence, not guns. Look at who's doing the vast majority of homicides in tge US. Bad guys will always have guns wether legal or not just as shown in Mexico but if you want to kneecap yourself by all means go ahead. But stay in your country and vote that way. I'm tired of people moving here running away from their countries and then voting for the same policies that their broken countries have. As demographics continue to shift this country is going to inherently get more violent and that's a fact.
DeleteI bet they won't let me post this but it's a fact. Mexicans create Mexico, chinamen create china, africans create African countries and so on. If you move one group somewhere the living conditions will proportionally reflect the country they came from. It's not some magic piece of paper or laws that make a nation what it is, it's the makeup of the people who do and denying this will get more ridiculous as the science of genetics and DNAs effects on behavior continue to make stronger and stronger correlations exponentially.
Delete702 your brains going to melt.
Delete7:02 nailed it. just look at europe, stabbings were so bad you couldn't carry scissors in parts of england and you have "trucks of peace" mowing down crowds. violent people will be violent regardless of the tools
DeleteSnifer Truther snitched!
Delete7:02. just have look at the first world nations and their homicide rates.US way on top and the only difference are guns. We all live the same lifestyle, work hard party harder, drive fancy cars, go to clubs and bars and get drunk as a skunk, drive home or call an uber, having fast food, we even shot .50 rifles. The only difference are guns and their easy availability.
Delete731 incorrect it takes more balls to stab someone to death then to shot. By having a gun your giving someone a easy method to kill. Gun control has worked great in Europe. Sorry you have a low IQ if you believe people should have the ability to have military grade weapons.
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DeleteMy I.Q. just barely high enough to read the 2nd amendment to the constitution !
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DeleteCountries are made up from its constituent peoples,we all know why mexico is the way it is..A people make a country but they will not accept its their own faults..They laud and champion criminality heap scorn on every other country and will not take responsibility for their own faults.Everyone here knows it but it is distasteful to point it out it breaks the image of a decent god fearing people,if thats so why is Mexico the way it is,ohh i forgot its the fault of the U.S..
@11:45 what if we didnt have the right to carry here in the US it probably be the wild wild west again. Bet you live in the safety of this country tho huh?
Delete7:08 Speak plainly. What are you saying? Be direct. What are you trying to say about the populace?
Delete1:43 Speak plainly. What are you trying to say? Be direct.
DeleteLas 4 letras del terror sembrando el terror liderados en Guanajuato por La tripa Velasquez los elitones
ReplyDeleteStop promoting those scumbags
DeletePuro pendejo con la tripa. Ya se les volteo Rene El 00 o la loca en leon. Ya lo andan buscando de nuevo. https://x.com/juliocdleon/status/1911172218085871739?s=46
DeleteMexico is a dump
ReplyDeleteThat's Koo foo
DeleteUS is a dump.
Delete9:41 For reals, no period kid.
DeleteSome good news for a change:
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DeleteOh boy Guanajuato was such a peaceful state before those scumbags CJNG went in to try and take over. When CSRL controlled most of the state they pretty much left the regular civilians alone. They focused a lot on fuel theft. A very harmless illegal activity. Why the heck can't CJNG just be happy with owning Jalisco? They own Jalisco and parts of other states and also export to countries around the world. Why go and mess up beautiful Guanajuato. This is the reason why people hate them so much. They are your modern day Zetas from back in the day. I know what your thinking. CSRL used to be Zetas. Yes correct but they morphed into a different much calm cartel. Not the same regime from before. The Mexican military needs to back up CSRL just like they back up Mayos to eliminate CJNG from Guanajuato. Nuff Said!!!
ReplyDeleteThe plazas in Guanajuato were CJNG control are peaceful, the only ones killing inocent people now a days is the few plazas that CDSRL have a precense, how doni know? Cause my brother in law was there a month ago and he was travelling freely through Guanajuato, there is just that place were CSRDL have precense were his cousins told him not to go
Delete@629: CSRL** The D's are filler words,not part of the Acronym.. If you weren't an American't,this would have been taught to you in school.. But your country is on the tail end of of all civilized rich countries on Level/Quality of Education. Dumb people vote for Dumb Fascists. Dumb Fascists only lie and steal. Guanajuato belongs to people from Guanajuato.
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DeleteI give up, what does the "D" stand for?
" A very harmless illegal activity."
DeleteIt's ok Nuff, we know what you're trying to say, you just need to choose your words better.
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DeleteNuffys sentence lacked a verb.
Maleducado
In the box & buried in less than 24 hours! That's some 3rd world shit but right in our own backyard.
ReplyDeleteJust look up Abuela Carlota and what she did to squatters a week ago. She even has a corrido now for defending her property from criminal lowlifes.
ReplyDeleteShe can listen to her corrido in prison for the next 30 years
DeleteTODOS LOS CARTELES SON UNA MIERDA, EL DOMINGO ACRIBILLARON A Un primo Mio Bola De Cobardes, Che Wercos Mecos Matando Gente A Lo Wey Pero Eso Lo Pagaran Con Algun Hijo O Hermano, NO DE Nuestra Parte Sino Por Lo Que Uds Estan Haciendo Aqui Todo Se Paga y Eso Uds Lo Van A Sentir Por Los Contrarios Bola De OGTS COBARDES HDSPM ASESINOS DE MIERDA.
ReplyDeleteMi gustan los tacos de Pastor, con Chile, ye 🍋 lemon.
DeleteI put salsa búfalo on mis mangitos 🥭
DeleteTabien elote con chili.
DeleteMe gusta traerte pescado del chico, porque el grande agarras apesta
DeleteFuel theft is harmless? Lol. Tell that to the people burned alive or had to evacuate their town because of it. Or put themselves in danger fixing the pipes. Or poor people who have to pay more for gas they cant afford because of fuel theft. Harmless, lol, lmao even.
ReplyDeleteFuel theft makes gasoline prices go up at Pemex gas stations
DeletePemex is owned by the people of Mexico, they're the ones getting robbed!
DeleteOr the countless employees victimized and/or killed!
DeleteWhy aren't we allowed to discuss the links between genetics and behavior on here without being censored? I can site many studies old and new and even recently how geneticists have stated that they're going to have to discuss the taboo because science can no longer deny the findings.
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DeleteYou'll want to learn how to spell and "CITE" your acerbic findings on the Genetics & Behavior website, just a few clics away!
Sounds like interesting stuff, but folks come onto BB for coverage of Mexican cartel and border-related activities..
Very specific, and for most people, an acquired taste!
In general, your genetics equation stacks up, but you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows, if you permit these cartel nimrods to breed, of COURSE their progeny will grow up to be some fucked-up kids! 😸
''Why aren't we allowed to discuss''
DeleteBecause truth hurts when its pointed at the guilty,nothing will change in mexico until the people change but,thats why 1000s leave and then hate the country they moved to and have freedom to speak in that they dont have in mexico..When do you see them protest in mexico,but you see it in the U.S
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DeleteYou're an idiot.
Genetics? Seriously? Lmao
DeleteHow about corruption, class imbalance, and poverty?
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DeleteDEI Guy in da house!
This is classic heating up.plaza by the losing side no cartel or criminal organizatio. are Saints and all do horrible things but killing civilians is among the worse
ReplyDeleteJesus Christ… soccer games now!?!!
ReplyDeleteHow high on the list is GTO right now for deadliest states?