Although it is a foreign celebration, Halloween has gained popularity among Mexican populations. And Tabascans, who seek to decorate their homes with motifs alluding to the “night of the witches,” have chosen to create supposed “decorations” that allude to bagged bodies, just as the cartels leave them.
In Villahermosa, a family thought it would be a good idea to joke about the wave of violence that the state has been experiencing for months, where intentional homicides in Tabasco have become a daily occurrence. And, unfortunately, it is common for criminal groups to leave bodies on public roads.
This family put as “decoration” for a business a figure wrapped in a black bag and tape, to simulate a person hanging by the feet and apparently “executed.”
The peculiar “decoration” quickly caught the attention of motorists and citizens who circulated on the Carlos Pellicer Cámara ring road and it did not take long for emergency calls to be received at the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC).
State agents quickly went to the place to investigate what was happening and were surprised to find that it was a joke.
And although it does not constitute a crime, they asked those responsible to immediately remove the figure to avoid generating panic and not fueling confusion.
A family in Villahermosa put up a ‘decoration’ that simulated a bagged and hung body, for Halloween. (Christian Redondo)
Homicides in Tabasco rise in 2024
The beginning of the government in Tabasco of the Morena member Javier May Rodríguez was not alien to the wave of violence that marked the last period of his predecessor Carlos Manuel Merino, who faced a marked increase in the rate of intentional homicides, which has been attributed to the dispute of two fully identified criminal groups.
Data from the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System (SESNSP) and the National Security Commission (CNS) show that from January 1 to September 31, the last day of the previous administration, 647 people were murdered in the state, most of them with firearms.
Added to this figure are the 64 victims recorded from October 1 to 29, already during May Rodríguez’s mandate. That is, an average of 2 per day.
In total, there are 711 victims in the year, that is, 41 more than in all of 2019, the most violent year since the SESNSP count began.
Source: elfinanciero
