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Thirteen people attending a private party held in Veracruz, Mexico, were killed during a mbadacre perpetrated by a group of armed men. Seven men, five women and a minor are the deadly victims. At least four people were injured.
The attack began when the accused arrived at the scene in search of a person known as "The Beky", who would own a bar in the area.
According to a young woman who attended the mbadacre and lost her brother, "They were six guys who came and shot everyone, they saw that you had a baby in your arms and they did not care, almost everyone was thrown to the ground."
Another 50-year-old woman reported: "A guy made me point in. I felt the gun in my head but he did not shoot me." Federal forces are conducting an operation to find those responsible for the mbadacre.
antecedents
The city of Minatitlán, where a refinery is located, has been hit by violence over the past decade. The main crime committed is the abduction against oil workers, doctors, teachers and breeders.
In Veracruz, according to the intelligence services of the Secretariat of the Navy and the Mexican Army, the drug cartels are challenged by Los Zetas, the cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación and El Golfo.
Organized crime challenges the territorial control of drug trafficking and migrant routes, illegal collection from merchants and kidnapping in a territory with high agricultural production, petroleum (owns four petrochemicals and a refinery) and l & # 39; 39, one of the most important cargo ports in the country.
In December 2018, the governor came to power Cuitláhuac García Jiménez, from the Morena party, which brought the president to power Andrés Manuel López Obrador, with the promise of reducing high levels of violence over a two-year period.
One of the first actions to pacify the state of Veracruz was the recognition of thousands of missing, estimated at 5,000, as well as the search and identification of missing persons in clandestine graves.
During the past eight years, at least 601 clandestine graves have been officially recorded in the territory of Veracruz, with 518 bodies, 560 skulls and 53,606 body fragments, men, women and children.
Among them is the one known as Colinas de Santa Fe in the port of Veracruz, where 298 bodies of people were buried illegally by criminals.
President López Obrador He will arrive this Sunday to commemorate the US invasion of the port of Veracruz on April 21, 1914 and on Monday he will hold a meeting on national security and a press conference.
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