Violence continues in Mexico: the country turned red at the weekend

The President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, launched last Friday the National Guard in the municipality of Minatitlán, in the state of Veracruz.

The announcement was made after the mbadacre occurred on the night of April 19th., where 13 people died, including a child under one year old, when a commando attacked guests at a birthday party.

This new security corps is the strategy that the new government of Mexico, led by López Obrador, recently put in place to deal with the high number of violence in the country.

"There will be elements of the military police, the naval police and the federal police, coordinated by an army or navy command, a single command and here in MinatitlánDue to the circumstances, it was decided to start here, "López Obrador said at an event organized in this municipality.

However, Last weekend, there was a wave of violence ranging from bar crime to family celebrations, clashes between security forces and suspected members of organized crime, killings of police officers and police officers. a commander, or even executions in public.

Guanajuato is the state that has presented the highest number of intentional homicides Saturday and Sunday with a figure of 19 people killed, according to local media.

The 19 dead they occurred during various acts of violence, all during executions. One of them occurred in Leon, the state capital, and authorities were informed that a man was reported to have been shot to death. inside his home in the district of San José del Monte.

As well, 3 bodies were located on a dirt road leading to the community of Loma de San AntonioTwo men and one woman were shot dead.

In Chihuahua, 5 people were killed when gunmen attacked people attending a family party the night of last Saturday in the neighborhood of Vista Hermosa.

In Guadalajara, six men were executed while they were living together very early in the streets of the Del Carmen neighborhoodthe subjects who traveled in a vehicle shot at them, leaving them dead.

In Oaxaca, a command attacked people who were in a mechanical workshop in the state capital, where they murdered 4.

In Michoacán, In the municipality of Quiroga, armed men broke into a bar in the neighborhood called "El Pony", outside Tzintzuntzan, burned the house and killed two men and one woman.

In Puebla, Saturday around 10:30 at night, an element of the prosecutor's abduction and high impact crimes was shot down (FISDAI), when he arrived home, in the district of Plan de Ayala.

The facts were recorded in the street Francisco Villa of the said colony located in the auxiliary council of San Jerónimo Caleras.

Also in Puebla but in the municipality of Acatzingo, a commander of the municipal police was executed Sunday morningWhile riding motorcycle taxi in the street on May 5 downtown.

In Veracruz, where the National Guard was opened, three people were killed and two others wounded: a senior woman and a 3 year old boy with a head injury with a firearm.

The fact they were registered in Acayucan, where they executed 2 people and in Coatzacoalcos one more.

Saturday afternoon in the state of Mexico, a subject entered armed in a building to shoot himself in the head to a lawyer, his secretary and his son while they were inside the building located in the center of the municipality of Cuautitlán.

Although there are still no secondary laws governing the National Guard, this new security organ is already in place in Veracruz, Oaxaca and according to the head of the government of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, on three points of the capital, although Until yesterday, no part of the Guard was visible in the places where it is supposed to already operate.

Saturday afternoon, through his Twitter account, the Secretary of Public Security of the country, Alfonso Durazo, said that the beginning of operations of the National Guard in Minatitlán is constitutional, it is not necessary to have the approval of its secondary laws.

"The performance of the National Guard in Minatitlán and in other municipalities is constitutional.The transitional provisions of the reform establish that the elements of the federal, naval and military police who comply with it will have the powers provided for by the Federal Police Act during the promulgation of the secondary law. "he explained.

Many groups and civil society organizations they manifested themselves in the past, fears that recruitment, training and operations will be in charge of the armed forces.

In a statement, more than 50 non-governmental organizations (NGOs), including Causa en Común A.C, Mexican Commission for the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights (Cmdpdh), Mexico Evaluates and Mexico United Against Delinquency have warned that, if this route is realized, "the only civil thing of this guard will be its administrative disguise".

They considered that the signals sent by the government they go against what has been voted in the Union Congress for the National Guard to be a civilian institution.

The representative of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UN-DH) in Mexico, Jan Jarab, said that "For the UN-DH, the intervention of the armed forces in security tasks must be subject to a strict regime of temporality (As has also been proposed by other international organizations, including the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in a judgment against Mexico), because this is an exceptional case, because it is the responsibility of the civil authorities to take charge of public security "