Gunmen open fire on customers and employees in Mexico bar, killing 10
MARCH 14, 2023 / 10:15 AM / CBS/AFP
Ten people were shot to death and another five were wounded in an attack at a bar in Mexico's central state of Guanajuato over the weekend, officials said.
The attack took place after 11 p.m. local time on Saturday at the El Estadio bar, when a group of armed men burst in and opened fire at customers and employees of the bar along a highway that connects the cities of Celaya and Queretaro.
The current death toll is seven men and three women, officials said.
Guanajuato, a prosperous industrial region and home to some of Mexico's most popular tourist destinations, has become the country's bloodiest state.
In October, 12 people were killed in a shooting at another bar in Guanajuato. And the month before that, armed attackers killed 10 people in a pool hall in the state's Tarimoro municipality.
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Jalisco cartel shows off its fire power, parades narco-tank in Michoacán
MND Staff
March 5, 2021
Cartel shows off its tank in Aguililla.
The Jalisco New Generation Cartel and its new tank in the community of El Aguaje.
A video in which members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) show off an armored “narco-tank” apparently seized from a rival criminal organization has surfaced on social media.
The video shows an armored vehicle emblazoned with the CJNG initials towing a homemade tank, which was seized from the Viagras crime gang in the Tierra Caliente region of Michoacán, according to local media reports.
Six heavily-armed men and one women ride on the stolen tank as it is paraded in broad daylight down a street in El Aguaje, a town in the municipality of Aguililla.
“Another little gift,” one of the men says, while other cartel members declare that they are “pura gente del señor Mencho,” or “only Mencho’s people.”
El Mencho is the nickname of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, the fugitive leader of the CJNG and Mexico’s most wanted drug lord.
Link to tweet
The CJNG, widely considered Mexico’s most powerful and dangerous criminal organization, frequently makes videos to show off its vast firepower. One posted online last July showed some 75 masked gunmen alongside a long convoy of armored vehicles.
The Jalisco cartel is involved in vicious turf wars with other criminal organizthe ations in different parts of Mexico including the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel in Guanajuato and the Viagras in Michoacán.
The CJNG has recently gone on an offensive in Michoacán’s Tierra Caliente, attacking several towns in the region. Just last week, a drone captured footage of 11 armored CJNG vehicles moving into the municipality of Tecaltepec, which borders Aguililla, from nearby communities in Jalisco.
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https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/jalisco-cartel-shows-off-its-fire-power-parades-narco-tank-in-michoacan/
(In the Twitter video, they brandish huge weapons as they drag their captured new armored vehicle back to their lair. Use the full page view for the video. First time I've seen an actual woman flaunting a whopper gun. Seems like a bad dream!)
