The femicide of Citlali López Rendón not only shook Baja California Sur, but also began to expose the internal cracks in a police force long plagued by alleged abuses, cover-ups, and protection networks that are now once again under suspicion.
Citlali was 24 years old and an officer with the Immediate Response Unit of the Los Cabos Municipal Public Security Directorate. On March 11, 2026, she was shot in the back inside the municipal police station, specifically by the operational director, Edilberto Miramontes Gámez, her immediate supervisor.
The initial version attempted to portray the incident as an accident. The municipal government, headed by Christian Agúndez Gómez, claimed that the shooting occurred while a police commander was handling a firearm. But as the investigation progressed, that narrative began to crumble.
The State Attorney General’s Office, headed by Antonio López Rodríguez, activated the femicide protocol with a gender perspective, and the investigations by the Deputy Attorney General’s Office for High-Impact Crimes led to the case being reclassified. What they initially tried to cover up as an accident became a formal accusation of aggravated femicide.
The accused is Edilberto Miramontes Gámez, then operational commander of the Los Cabos Public Security Directorate and former director of the municipal Preventive Police. The same man who held the weapon that ended Citlali’s life.
But the case took on another dimension when connections began to emerge that are now impossible to ignore. In July 2025, six members of the Immediate Reaction Unit (URI) were arrested for enforced disappearance. Among those arrested was Alejandra “N”, Edilberto Miramontes’ sister.
According to testimonies and lines of investigation, Citlali was not only the commander’s colleague and subordinate, but she was also considered a key figure in the Attorney General’s investigations and was about to testify about the network of police officers accused of unlawful detention.
In other words, Citlali was about to become a key witness in a sensitive investigation, and the brother of one of the main suspects is now allegedly responsible for her femicide.
Sources within Los Cabos also assert that Miramontes did not rise solely within the police structure; some point to Carlos Beltrán, the powerful chief administrative officer of the city council, as one of the main promoters of her career within the force.
The suspicion that is now growing among police officers and within the investigations themselves is even more serious: that behind the femicide there may have been an attempt to protect interests, silences, and possible secrets related to the Immediate Response Unit.
Finally, on March 18, the initial hearing against Miramontes began at the Los Cabos Criminal Justice Center. After several hours of proceedings, the judge ordered him to stand trial for aggravated femicide and remanded him to pretrial detention at the CERESO prison while the criminal proceedings continue.
The state attorney general, Antonio López Rodríguez, claims that the femicides registered this year in Baja California Sur have already been prosecuted. However, the case of Citlali López Rendón can hardly be closed with just an indictment.
Several issues are at stake here: clarifying Citlali’s femicide, determining the extent of the protection networks within the Los Cabos municipal police, and how many more silences remain buried behind a uniform that implicates the government of Christian Agúndez.
Source: heraldodemexico
