The Jalisco Cartel attacked Mexican communities with armed drones
Unofficially he has reported only one injured
Individuals identified as part of the Jalisco-Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG) used drones to launch explosives on Tuesday morning over the homes of El Bejuco and La Romera, in the district of Tepalcatepec, in the Michoacan town of Tierra Caliente.
Videos circulate on social networks showing the moment when the devices were thrown and detonated when they touched the ground, which caused the flight of some men who were in the undergrowth. Unofficially, he has reported only one injured person.
The self-styled "Tepalcatepec self-defense groups" who were the main target of the attack, confirmed that they managed to shoot down the drones.
State security authorities said these assaults, which have been ongoing for some time, are planned to create panic in the Tierra Caliente area.
The cartel led by aliases “El Mencho”, named Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, has applied this strategy both in Tepalcatepec (where the self-defense groups emerged in February 2013) and in the districts of Coalcomán, Chinicuila, Aguililla and Buenavista, to incite the financial and social instability, and the displacement of many families.
Towards the end of last year, Gregorio López, priest of Apatzingán, guaranteed that thousands of people have fled the area.
Assaults allegedly related to the cartels
In Zinapécuaro there was a confrontation between rival packs that left three dead and a vehicle burned, announced the former attorney general's office, whose personnel retained five vehicles, including one armored, and destroyed four camps used for illegal exercises.
In the eastern part of the state, the police captured seven people allegedly related to the armed confrontations in Zinapécuaro and in the district of Hidalgo.
In the Purépecha municipality of Chilchota, a young man and his sister, a minor, were shot with assault weapons; while in the vicinity of the Morelia Fair the body of a woman with signs of torture was found.
Alfredo Ramírez Bedolla, who is the governor of Michoacán, met yesterday with the mayors of towns with indigenous populations, among them Antonio Salas, from Los Reyes, who said that the state has serious problems of governance, security and neglected communities.