on Saturday, representatives of the local Prosecutor’s office said that the clashes in the village of Chuhuichupa in the area of Madeira was discovered 18 dead, two grenades, vehicles and weapons. Two men were found wounded nearby on a dirt road. One later died in hospital and another in custody.
More than 950 police officers were killed in Mexico over two years
the state’s attorney’s office reported that police and soldiers were deployed to ensure security in the area where the groups linked to the cartel “Sinaloa” from time to time fighting with those someone associated with the cartel “Juarez”.
the Shooting began after the bloodiest month in Mexico: in March, the homicide rate at the national level reached a new sad record, even despite the fact that COVID-19 spread across the country, and the Mexican authorities urged people to stay home and follow the rules of social distancing, notes The Guardian.
In March, Mexico was recorded 2585 murders, which is the highest monthly figure since the start of registration of serious crimes in 1997. A surge of killings, according to experts, is due to the fact that Federal and state officials are investing resources in pandemic coronavirus and faced with the prospect of a drop in key economic indicators that can potentially create further suffering for more than 40 percent of Mexicans living below the poverty line.
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Violence erupted across the country, but it was particularly intense in the Central state of Guanajuato, where criminal gangs fought for control of the theft of fuel from pipelines. The bloodshed reached a shocking level in the citye Cala where there is a large auto plant: gunmen this week entered into a firefight with security forces, openly blocked the streets, burning businesses and shops.
Recall that in November, nine people with dual Mexican-American citizenship from the Mormon community was ambushed and killed in the area, located about 100 kilometers North of the village, where occurred the last massacre. It is still unclear which of the two cartels involved in this mass murder.
