AMLO recognizes the increase in attacks with explosives in Mexico and takes its first measures

The president of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obradorrecognized this Thursday an increase in attacks with explosives by organized crime, the most recent of which left six dead, but refrained from classifying them as terrorism.

“It is a form of aggression that is used constantly, we are constantly confiscating explosives” in the states of Michoacan, Jalisco (west) and Guanajuato (north), López Obrador said at his usual press conference.

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Last Tuesday night several handmade explosives were activated by a police patrol and the prosecutor’s office in the municipality of Tlajomulco (Jalisco), killing four police officers and two civilians. Another 14 people were injured, of which 12 were residents.

Local authorities attributed the attack to the “organized crime”. The region is the base of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), one of the most powerful, with a presence in several countries.

On June 28, a car bomb attack also caused the death of a member of the militarized National Guard and injuries to three others in the town of celaya (Guanajuato), scene of confrontations between drug gangs.

Added to these actions are attacks with drones loaded with explosives denounced by the Secretary of Defense since 2021, and the discovery of antipersonnel mines.

However, when asked by journalists, the leftist president avoided classifying these acts as terrorists.

The terrorism “it is more linked to ideological politics and also to fanaticism“, maintained López Obrador, who asked”Do not open the door” to sectors “ultraconservatives” of USA What do they seek “excuses, pretexts to violate our sovereignty”.

congressmen of Republican Party They have called for the United States to declare the Mexican cartels terrorist organizations and for the military to be allowed to fight them wherever they are.

Those legislators hold Mexican drug traffickers responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of people in the United States from overdoses of fentanyl, an opioid 50 times more powerful than heroin.

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“You have to be aware of that because there are many who seek to get rajas (profit), apart from the vultures there are the hawks”, assured López Obrador when defending once again an approach that favors social investment in the areas where the drug trafficker operates, before military repression.

According to the Mexican government, so far in 2023 some 414 grenades have been seized, compared to 725 in 2022.

Since 2006, when an anti-drug offensive was launched with the participation of the Army and the MarineMexico accumulates some 350,000 murders, the majority attributed to drug trafficking organizations.

Source: Elcomercio

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