After the discovery of three alleged members of the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG) murdered near the Apatzingán-Aguililla highway, a narco-banner was hung this morning pointing out alleged links between the authorities of Michoacán and organized crime.
The narco-banner is signed by “The people tired of injustices” and warns that it would have been the local and state authorities who handed the three alleged members of the CJNG over to their rivals, Los Caballeros Templarios.
It is worth remembering that the three bodies were found on January 6; the victims were sitting on plastic chairs and were wearing tactical clothing and vests with the initials of the CJNG.
According to local media reports, the narco-banner was placed in the Satélite neighborhood, right on a wall in an area known as Las Graditas. The message mentions the names of some local and federal security officials, who are accused of kidnapping “day laborers” and passing them off as criminals; they also shared alleged search cards for three missing people who would be the same ones who appeared murdered along the road.
While waiting for the investigations by the Attorney General’s Office (FGJ) of Michoacán, federal sources confirmed to the media Red 113 Michoacán that this is a desperate attempt by criminals to “seek the empathy of the social base” and confuse the population with false accusations against the authorities.
It is worth remembering that the municipality of Apatzingán is one of the most disputed areas between the CJNG and Los Caballeros Templarios, where clashes have been recorded between both groups and that recently the four-letter cartel released a video in which it asks residents for information to help exterminate its rivals.
And with alliances with Los Viagras and Los Blancos de Troya, the CJNG has managed to advance in the Tierra Caliente region of Michoacán; while Los Caballeros Templarios, heirs to the ideals of Nazario Moreno, maintain resistance in Apatzingán and Tepalcatepec with the cartel led by Juan José Álvarez Farías, alias El Abuelo.
It is not the first time that organized crime has sought to destabilize the government of Michoacán with narco-banners, since last November an alleged relationship between a Sedena general and the daughter of the municipal president of Tepalcatepec was reported.
“The Tepalcatepec Cartel receives more than two million a month for putting elements of the Sedena and the National Guard at its disposal to attack opposing cartels so that they do not enter the areas dominated by that cartel such as Buenavista and Tepalcatepec,” read the narco-message.
Source: infobae
