Mexico: 10 corpses found in front of the seat of government of Zacatecas
Police forces remove the vehicle with bodies left by unknown assailants outside the government building in Zacatecas, Mexico, January 6, 2022. REUTERS - STRINGER
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A dozen bodies were found Thursday in a vehicle parked in front of the headquarters of the regional government of the state of Zacatecas, in northern Mexico.
Several bodies were identified on Friday.
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This is the latest episode of violence affecting the state of Zacatecas, over which two powerful cartels are vying for control. The bodies of eight men and two women, whose autopsies revealed had been killed by hanging, were found crammed into a vehicle parked next to the Christmas tree set in the main square of the capital of the State, just under the windows of the new governor's office, arrived in September.
This close friend of the Mexican president maintains that it is a desperate act of criminal gangs facing, he said, the effective fight of the federal government against drug trafficking.
He also qualifies this violence as "
a cursed heritage
", reports
Marie Normand
, journalist with the international service of RFI.
For the columnist of the newspaper
El Universal
, this brutal security degradation can also be explained by the corruption of local and regional authorities, which allowed the incubation of armed gangs.
One of the most dangerous states in the country
Zacatecas, a strategic road junction, has become the main battleground for the New Generation Sinaloa and Jalisco cartels.
In 2021, it recorded 618 homicides linked to organized crime and already 33 assassinations in this first week of 2022. Several municipalities in Zacatecas no longer have local police.
All
the agents preferred to resign
(link in Spanish).
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To listen and read also: The most terrorized city in Mexico is located in the state of Zacatecas [International report]
Already in November, a dozen tortured bodies were found hanging from bridges on the roads leading to several of these towns.
Mexico City had announced the dispatch of 460 soldiers in addition to the 4000 already deployed.
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