US EditionTension at the Border: Cop-Criminal Confrontation Spreads to Guatemala · Global Voices
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The ambush in which five state police officers from Chiapas were killed on 2 June in the municipality of Frontera Comalapa, while they were patrolling, and the confrontation in the Mesilla on 8 June, where five alleged criminals were killed, highlights the fragility of the narc pax prevailing in that entity. According to information disseminated by various media, the aggressors used large-calibre firearms with which they fired about 700 shots at…
A violent day took place on June 8 in the border zone between Mexico and Guatemala, after an armed confrontation between Mexican security forces and suspected members of organized crime spread from the municipality of Frontera Comalapa, in Chiapas, to La Mesilla, a Guatemalan community. The shooting left at least four alleged assassins dead, confiscated weapons and strong diplomatic tension between the governments of Chiapas and Guatemala, who e…
Police officers from the state of Chiapas allegedly crossed the border with Guatemala this Sunday to confront members of a criminal group, with a preliminary balance of at least four civilians killed. After the confrontation, the governor of Chiapas, Eduardo Ramírez, accused Guatemalan authorities in their social networks of providing protection to criminal groups. On the unfortunate events that occurred in the dividing line with the sister Repu…
An armed confrontation between security forces and a criminal group generated alarm in the border community of La Mesilla, Huehuetenango. The events, which appear to be linked to a struggle for drug control, involved Guatemalan and Mexican authorities, leaving a scene of confusion and conflicting versions of each country’s participation. The conflict: exchange of fire and persecution at the border Preliminaryly, it was learned that the armed con…
The Ministry of People's Security (SSP) together with other authorities reported a confrontation where four alleged members of an unidentified organized crime group were shot down in Frontera Comalapa, Chiapas. The authorities clashed with the armed subjects, who, in addition to detonating their weapons against the uniformed, also threw grenades. In addition to the four alleged members, the authorities secured four vans, three of them armored, t…
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