Mexican Army personnel and Chiapas state security personnel engaged in a confrontation with armed civilians who attacked them during an operation in the municipality of Villaflores.
According to a statement released by the Chiapas Attorney General’s Office (FGJ), the confrontation occurred on Friday morning, when personnel from the FGJ, the Secretariat of Public Security (SSP), the Secretariat of National Defense (Defense), and the National Guard (GN) were executing two search warrants on buildings in the towns of Doctor Domingo Chanona and Bellavista.
Authorities reported that upon arriving at the buildings, they were attacked by heavily armed civilians. In response, they killed two suspected criminals and arrested seven others, identified as Arisandy “N”, Roni “N”, Eduardo “N”, Alan “N”, Juvenal “N”, Martín “N”, and Víctor “N”, allegedly linked to a series of recent homicides in the Frailesca region.
The Chiapas Attorney General’s Office (FGJ) added that after the confrontation, 10 firearms, two vehicles, two motorcycles, and two ranches were seized.
“The detained individuals and those seized were placed at the disposal of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, which will determine their legal status; while the deceased were transferred to the Forensic Medical Service (Semefo) for a legal autopsy,” authorities stated.
Families displaced by violence return to Chiapas
After violence stemming from clashes between the Sinaloa, Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG), and Chiapas y Guatemala (CCyG) cartels forced thousands of residents of the state to abandon their homes, a group of 400 people returned to their communities on the Mexico-Guatemala border this week.
The group included 84 families who had fled their homes in the community of San Gregorio, part of the municipalities of Frontera Comalapa and La Trinitaria.
The families were guarded by members of the Mexican Army and the State Police during their return home; they were also accompanied by the mayor of La Trinitaria, Denis Gabriel Solís Alvarado.
It’s worth remembering that the border region between Mexico and Guatemala was one of the hardest hit by the violence caused by the cartel war, with the arrival of the CJNG (CyG) and the emergence of the CCyG (CyG), which prompted the Sinaloa Cartel to strengthen its ranks and led to forced recruitment and kidnapping of residents to join the ranks of organized crime.
Source: infobae
