The groups of armed men set fire to vehicles and blocked the roads in Mexico on Wednesday, the local police and the media said, since a grass war continues between the influential drug cartel of Jalisco New Generation and local criminal groups.
The gunmen took cargo trucks and set on fire on a road that connects Mexico City with Guadalajara, before the police reported at least 18 similar cases in the neighboring states of Michoacán and Guanajuato.
A police source of Michoacán said a reaction to Jalisco New Generation to a military operation in the area.
The fires were under control on Wednesday night, with clear roads and no victims were reported, cordination to local media.
The Mexican government declared the war against drug trafficking groups in 2006 and violence has shaken the country since then, with around 480,000 people killed in the last 19 years.
Jalisco’s new generation poster was designated A terrorist organization of President Trump in February. The poster, that the United States drug control administration says it is about 19,000 in its ranks, quickly became an extremely violent and capable force after separating from the Sinaloa poster After the 2010 murder of the Sinaloa Capo Ignacio poster “Nacho” Coronel Villarreal for the Army.
The group has been accused of using false job ads to attract new members and torture and kill recruits Who resist. Last month, a group of people looking for missing relatives found Choss, shoes and clothes In a Sedped Training Field for the poster.
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The Jalisco poster is directed by Nemesio Rubén “El Meco” Oseguera Cervantes. The United States government has offered a $ 15 million reward for information that leads to its capture. Oseguera caught renewed attention after her image was projected as a band played at a music festival in Jalisco at the end of March.
In February, his wife, Rosalinda González, was Liberated from prison In Mexico, after receiving a sentence of five years after his trial in 2021 for the illegal financial operation of an organized criminal group. His release came the same day that 29 drug traffickers who stopped in Mexican prisons were Sent to the United States.
Associated Press contributed to this report.
