The security agencies of the state of Sonora, in northwest Mexico, reported At least 16 violent deaths this weekend When violence escalates in the municipalities of Cajeme, Guaymas and Empalme due to disagreements between criminal groupsState officials reported this Monday.
Sonora’s current governor, Alfonso Durazo, who is head of the Mexican Government’s Minister of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC), admitted this Monday that there had been an increase in crime over the weekend. violence”. “There is More than 20 people were arrested“There are very important seizures of weapons and even armored vehicles, but these operations also create a backlash,” he said. There were no victims of Guaymas.
Meanwhile, the Public Safety Executive Secretariat reported that of the 16 violent deaths recorded between Friday and Sunday, 10 occurred in the municipality of Cajeme, five in Guaymas and one in Hermosillo. The second was a drug dealer who repulsed the attack and shot and injured a state trooper who killed the suspect.
from 16 victimsThey stated that there were 15 executions. with the seal of organized crime: nine were shot in their vehicle, home or while walking; five were found handcuffed and lifeless at the bonfires; and a man was found swimming in an irrigation canal in Ciudad Obregón.
Since last week, close to 1,000 Mexican Army agents have arrived in the area and plunged into the scramble between organized crime groups and managed to arrest at least 40 suspects with arsenals, drugs and other evidence of criminal involvement. behaves. Even this Monday morning, there were Mexican Air Force warplanes flying over Guaymas and Empalme as part of aerial reconnaissance.
They occurred in Sonora between Friday and Sunday. dozens of armed attackscaused serious injuries to three police officers, one in Hermosillo and two in Ciudad Obregón.
In recent weeks, the violent executions of multiple criminal leaders between cells fighting for control of the Sinaloa Cartel, which has faced the homeowners of Ismael ‘Mayo’ Zambada and those commanded by the sons of capo Joaquín ‘el Chapo’ Guzmán, started a war for control of this criminal group in northwest Mexico. The bloody battle for the border area between Sonora and Arizona has left secondary victims in the cities of Hermosillo, Caborca, along with violent scenes such as mutilated corpses abandoned on public roads, panic over school districts by gunfire, and the aforementioned executions. The San Luis Colorado River, Guaymas, Empalme, and Cajeme are all in the state of Sonora.