US EditionSecurity Official: Car Bomb in Western Mexico Is Not Terrorism but Battles Between Cartels
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Los Angeles Times
Federal Security Secretary Omar García Harfuch said Tuesday that the car bomb that exploded last weekend on the coast of the western state of Michoacán killing five people was not an act of terrorism but was due to the fight between different cartels operating in the area despite the recent reinforcement of troops in the state.
Omar García Harfuch, Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection, suggested that the attack against the Coahuayana Community Police in Michoacán occurred because of alleged links with an organized crime cell operating in the region. He mentioned that the events of December 6 are not related to the crime of terrorism. He pointed out that it is a confrontation between two criminal cells linked to the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG) and Car…
The PAN representative said that this discussion should not be based on which party, which government or which authority said if it was terrorism, but the important thing, she stressed, is that how they can work from the three orders of government, federal, state and municipal to stop insecurity.
The explosion of a car bomb in Coahuayana, Michoacán, does not correspond to the crime of terrorism but to the crime of organized crime due to a fight between cartels, said Omar García Harfuch, head of the Ministry of Security and Citizen Protection. “These are criminal acts of criminal groups, the cells related to the Jalisco cartel, the Tepalcatepec cartel, and the United cartels, to expand their criminal activities, whether in territory, drug…
The Black government promised to recover Michoacán after the assassination of Mayor Carlos Manzo, but the reality denies it; a new car bomb attack left at least five dead and reveals that violence remains out of control.
How is it that a car bomb in Michoacán has become the most recent, and perhaps the most painful, reminder of a crisis of violence that Mexico still refuses to call by name? The answer lies in the contrast of two parallel realities. Because on Saturday, while the government apparatus was busy mounting a massive political act in the heart of Mexico City, the Zócalo, that symbolic center of national power, a truck loaded with explosives exploded in…
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