New massacre in Mexico: at least 13 people were killed

According to police, the events occurred last night in the municipality of Minatitlán, an oil region severely affected by organized crime.

Witnesses and survivors said that gunmen took part in a private party held in the Potra palapa (restaurant), located in the Obrera district of the municipality's headquarters.

The aggressors They wanted to take a man, but the badistants tried to stop him. They were shot dead and killed at least 13 people.reported the EFE news agency.

Instead arrived equipment of the Mexican army, Secretary of the Navy and State Police, who mounted a resguardo operation for the witnesses and began researching the perpetrators. ;attack.

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, Governor Cuitláhuac García Jiménez, president of the Morena party, came to power. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has promised to reduce the level of violence in two years.

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 will arrive this Sunday to commemorate the invasion of the port of Veracruz by the United States on April 21, 1914 and will hold a meeting on Monday on national security and a press conference.