To the cut, they go 10 executions related to the arrest in the US of “The May” Zambada and one of “The Chapitos”; Government of Sinaloa There is no certainty that more will not occur.
This was announced on Monday by the governor of Sinaloa, Ruben Rocha Moyawho updated the number of homicides that were registered over the weekend in various parts of the state; among these executions were that of “The Tano“one of the lieutenants of the historic capo, and his brother:
“On Saturday there were 6 and on Friday there were 4 (…) they do have to do with relations with organized crime organizations (…) it is a concern and you link them, at the moment, to the environment of what is happening after what happened on July 25, when the capture of 2 people from criminal organizations occurred.”
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At the same time, the Sinaloa governor acknowledged that the situation is a matter of concern, but that the “red flags” are monitored by the Secretariat of National Defense (Sedena) and that maintains an operation to avoid possible confrontations between members of organized crime:
“The Army knows where the red spots are and they are taking care of those issues. There is a strategy by a special group of the armed forces (…) they are trying to prevent them from meeting each other if that can happen, it is a more or less certain possibility. I only hope that it will not happen, but I do not have the elements to tell you that it will not happen.”
At the same time, Rocha Moya supported the call of Lopez Obrador to criminal groups not to confront each other and to prioritize peace in the entity:
“The President himself said this morning that he is calling for no confrontation, he has not hesitated to say that the groups should not fight and he said that he wants to maintain peace in Sinaloa, we do not have an evaluation of what could happen. There are no elements that announce a certain strong problem of violence due to groups meeting, it does not exist.”
President hopes violence will not increase
In the morning, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador expressed his hope that violence among the alleged criminals would not increase.
This Monday, when questioned by this newspaper about the murders recorded over the weekend in Sinaloa, 2 of them of people related to “El Mayo” Zambada, the president commented that the investigation is being conducted by the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) and that:
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“We hope that the situation in Sinaloa, which had remained very stable in terms of violence, does not worsen. This does not mean that there were no homicides, but there was no confrontation, there has been no confrontation between groups, this is not the case. Guanajuato, or what is recently happening in Chiapas or in Zacatecas, This was not recorded in Sinaloa.”
At the same time, he called for peace to be maintained in the state and for “the people of Sinaloa to be considered.”
The murder of Martin Garcia Corrales “El Tano”, whose body was found along with 2 other people in the municipality of Elota, Sinaloa, 25 days after the historic founder of the Sinaloa Cartel appeared in the US, alongside one of “Los Chapitos”.
According to reports from the DEA, Garcia Corrales He was wanted for large-scale trafficking of fentanyl and methamphetamines, and is also linked to the clandestine purchase of high-powered weapons; he belonged to the “El Mayo” Zambada faction in the Sinaloa Cartel.
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2024-08-21 04:45:33