Fear has actually attacked the Mexican border city of Reynosa after shooters in lorries eliminated 14 individuals, consisting of cabby, employees and a nursing trainee, and security forces reacted with operations that left 4 suspects dead.
While this city throughout the border from McAllen, Texas is utilized to cartel violence as a crucial trafficking point, the 14 victims in Saturday’s attacks seemed what Tamaulipas Gov. Francisco García Cabeza de Vaca called “innocent citizens” instead of members of one gang eliminated by a competitor.
Local business owner Misael Chavarria Garza stated numerous companies closed early Saturday after the attacks and individuals were really frightened as helicopters flew overhead. On Sunday, he stated “individuals were peaceful as if absolutely nothing had actually taken place, however with a sensation of anger due to the fact that now criminal offense has actually taken place to innocent individuals.”
“It’s not fair,” stated cab driver Rene Guevara, including that amongst the dead were 2 of his fellow cabby whom he protected and stated were not associated with criminal offense.
The attacks happened in numerous areas in eastern Reynosa, according to the Tamaulipas state firm that collaborates security forces, and stimulated a release of the military, National Guard and state cops throughout the city.
Authorities state they are examining the attacks and have not offered an intention.
But the location’s criminal activity has actually long been controlled by the Gulf Cartel and there have actually been fractures within that group. Experts state there has actually been an internal battle within the group considering that 2017 to manage crucial areas for drug and human trafficking. Apparently, one cell from a neighboring town might have gotten in Reynosa to perform the attacks.
Olga Ruiz, whose 19-year-old sibling Fernando Ruiz was eliminated by the shooters, stated her brother or sister was working as a plumbing and bricklayer in a business owned by his stepfather to spend for his research studies.
“They killed him in cold blood, he and two of his companions,” stated Olga Ruiz, including that the shooters showed up where her sibling was repairing a drain.
“They heard the gunshots from afar and my stepfather told him: ‘son, you have to take shelter.’ So he asked permission to enter a house but my brother and his companions were only about to enter when the vehicles arrived,” Ruiz stated. “They stopped in front of them and started to shoot.”
On Saturday, authorities apprehended an individual who was carrying 2 obviously abducted females in the trunk of a vehicle.
Security is among the fantastic obstacles dealing with the federal government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
He has actually guaranteed Mexicans that he is combating the origin of the violence and considering that the start of his administration in December 2018, he has actually promoted “hugs, not bullets” in handling wrongdoers. He likewise states he is combating corruption to stop the seepage of the mob amongst authorities.
But the violence continues.
“Criminal organizations must receive a clear, explicit and forceful signal from the Federal Government that there will be no room for impunity, nor tolerance for their reprehensible criminal behavior,” stated García Cabeza de Vaca of the competitor National Action Party. “In my government there will be no truce for the violent.”
But García Cabeza de Vaca himself is being examined by the federal district attorney’s workplace for the mob and cash laundering – allegations he states belong to strategy by López Obrador’s federal government to assault him for being a challenger.
Tamaulipas — the state where the Zetas cartel developed and where the Gulf Cartel continues to run — has actually seen numerous of its previous guvs from the Institutional Revolutionary Party implicated of corruption and links to the mob. One previous guv, Tomás Yarrington, was extradited to the United States from Italy in 2018 on drug trafficking charges.
