Groups of armed men set fire to vehicles and blocked roads across Mexico on Wednesday, police and local media said, while a lawn of lawn raged between the influential of the new generation of Jalisco’s drugs and local criminal groups.
Armed men seized loading trucks and set them on fire on a highway connecting Mexico to Guadalajara, before the police reported at least 18 similar cases in the neighboring states of Michoacan and Guanajuato.
A police source of Michoacan declared under the guise of anonymity that attacks were a reaction from the new generation of Jalisco to a military operation in the region.
The fires were under control Wednesday evening, with authorized roads and no victim was reported, according to local media.
The Mexican government has declared war against drug trafficking groups in 2006 and violence has been shaken since, with around 480,000 people murdered in the past 19 years.
Jalisco’s new generation cartel was designated A terrorist organization of President Trump in February. The cartel, which, according to the US Drug, the administration Sinaloa cartel After the murder in 2010 of the Cartel Sinaloa Capo Ignacio “Nacho” Coronel Villarreal by the army.
The group was accused of having used false employment advertisements to attract new members and torture and kill recruits who resist. Last month, a group of people looking for missing parents found Cartonized bones, shoes and clothes to a suspected training field for the cartel.
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The Jalisco cartel is led by Nemesio Rubén “El Mencho” daresgue Cervantes. The US government has offered a $ 15 million award For more information leading to his capture. Oseguera drew renewed attention after its image was projected as a group played during a music festival in Jalisco at the end of March.
In February, his wife, Rosalinda Gonzalez, was prisoned In Mexico after being sentenced to five years following his arrest in 2021 for the illicit financial operation of an organized criminal group. His release came the same day as 29 drug traffickers detained in Mexican prisons Sent to the United States.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
