Last Thursday, car bomb explosions were recorded in two municipalities in Guanajuato. With three people injured, at least one seriously, they have caused panic among the population.
Secretary Omar García Harfuch referred in the morning conference that it is a dispute over territory.
“This is about drugs, terrorism has ideological and religious overtones; here it is a dispute between criminal groups to fight each other and intimidate the authorities, either because some local authority is involved with some other group or because the authority itself is fighting them.”
Thirty years ago, in 1994, a car bomb attack occurred that shook the city of Guadalajara. The attack was also linked to an alleged dispute between cartels.
It was in June 1994 when Karime Fernández’s quinceañera was being celebrated in the Camichín room of the Camino Real hotel. Among the more than 300 guests, there was room for one more person, the historic drug lord Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, who this year was allegedly kidnapped by a son of “El Chapo” and taken to the United States, where he awaits trial.
At that time, “El Mayo” was the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel and was in conflict with the Arellano Félix cartel.
That is why on the night of the 11th, when the quinceañera was being celebrated, a Grand Marquis vehicle parked in front of the main entrance of the hotel exploded, taking the lives of seven people, including two of the occupants, and leaving 10 people injured.
The magnitude was such that the media La Silla Rota reported that buildings shook for 20 blocks around.
Authorities reported at the time that plastic explosives and a remote control were used. It was later revealed that the explosive was planned as a gift to enter the hall.
The technique that was once labeled “narcoterrorism” was thought to have been imported from Spain or Colombia, but the involvement of ETA was later denied.
For decades, the metropolitan area of Guadalajara has been the center of operations for drug trafficking gangs.
Source: elsiglodetorreon
