13 agents detained during a protest in southern Mexico are released

Thirteen agents of security mexicans who had been detained on Monday by protesters, allegedly infiltrated by a criminal group, were released on Tuesday after negotiations with the government, official sources reported.

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They are five members of the militarized National Guardfive police officers and three officials, including a federal agent, who were apprehended in the city of chilpancingosaid the governor of the state of Warrior (south), Evelyn SalgadoOn twitter.

State capital of 3.5 million inhabitants, this city was besieged on Monday by some 3,000 people demanding the release of two men arrested last week and who, according to the government, belong to the drug trafficking gang of The Squirrels. Besides, chilpancingo It was shaken over the weekend by the murder of five taxi drivers in different events.

The residents also unblocked this Tuesday the highway that leads to the port of acapulcoone of the main tourist destinations in the country on the Pacific coast.

“Without repression or confrontation, we achieved the release of 13 retained public servantsto whom medical attention is already provided to guarantee their good physical condition”Salgado said.

The inhabitants also returned a armored vehicle of the police with which they demolished a door of the state government palace on Monday, explained the governor.

Through the dialogue initiated on Tuesday morning “we build agreements (…) within the framework of the law”, added the official, without specifying the scope of these deals.

The negotiations were announced early Tuesday by the president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who assured that the protesters mobilized “to be released” to the two indicated criminals -detained in possession of weapons and drugs- and not for social demands, since Guerrero is one of the areas where his government has invested the most.

Guerrero, one of the most impoverished states in Mexicois strategic for drug trafficking as it has several ports on the Pacific, according to the authorities.

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meeting with drug dealer

Violence in Chilpancingo intensified after a video leaked on July 5 of a meeting between the city’s mayor, Norma Otilia Hernandezfrom the party of López Obrador, with Celso Ortega Jimenezleader The Squirrels.

The official assured that it was only “a fortuitous dialogue” and not a “covenant”, but last Friday the president ordered an investigation into the case.

Announcing the dialogue with the protesters, Lopez Obrador He assured this Tuesday that there would be no repression, but he also issued a warning: “We are not going to be held hostage by anyone.”

The leftist president promotes a security policy that he baptized “hugs, not bullets”, the target of criticism from its adversaries for considering that it has led to the control of vast areas by organized crime.

“Evil cannot be faced by doing evil”insisted this Tuesday Lopez Obradorwhen denouncing that the cartels flourished in states like Warrior because previous governments allowed them to consolidate a “social base” through the delivery of gifts.

The president maintains that his strategy is based on attack poverty and inequality as the roots of the problem, denouncing that the military approach has only left a bloodbath without to have managed to stop drug smuggling.

Since 2006, when this offensive was launched with the participation of the Army and Navy, Mexico accumulate some 350,000 murdersmost attributed to organizations drug dealersas well as tens of thousands of disappeared.

the one of chilpancingo it was the second mass kidnapping of official agents in less than two weeks. On June 27, 16 state police workers were kidnapped Chiapas (south) and released three days later.

They were in the hands of a criminal group that was demanding the dismissal of three police commanders, whom he accused of keeping a woman kidnapped in collusion with another criminal gang. Lopez Obrador He then offered to investigate the officials.

Source: Elcomercio

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