The shooters massacred ten people, including children, at a brutal night attack on the house in Irapuato, Guanajuato, the authorities confirmed on Wednesday. The attack occurred on Tuesday during the religious assembly and several others were injured by what President Claudia Sheinbaum condemned as a “deplorable” act.
The security forces launched the perpetrators who fled the scene in the damaged van. The Office of the Prosecutor General Guanajuato announced that the victims succumbed to a firearm firearm, with the local media noticed that there remained banners in the Cartel-Ponurý Signature in Mexican gang conflicts.
This massacre emphasizes the grim position of Guanajuato as the deadliest state in Mexico, where 3,151 murders in 2024, more than 10% of the national sum were driven by the cartel lines. The region, although industrial and tourism, is paralyzed by clashes between Santa Rosa de Lima and the new generation of Jalisco (CJNG), described the US terrorist organization. Mexican Catholic bishops condemned violence as evidence of “weakening social structures” and urged cartels to declare a ceasefire after recent attacks on the police, rehabilitation centers of addiction and family.
Bloodshed is part of the Mexican wider crisis: since 2006, approximately 480,000 lives have been lost to the cartel violence, along with 120,000 disappearances. Despite military interventions initiated by former President Felipe Calderón and continued successors, cartels shattered into 20+ ruthless factions, diversified into theft of oil, kidnapping and trading people.
President Sheinbaum is now facing challenges to reworking the security strategy in the middle of US passenger warnings to avoid Guanajuat, where the cartels dominate the territory.
(Tagstotranslate) Mexico
