ASSOCIATED PRESS
BY MARK STEVENSON
Published 7:30 AM PDT, July 12, 2023
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A drug cartel set off a coordinated series of seven roadway bombs in western Mexico that killed four police officers and two civilians, officials said Wednesday. The governor of Jalisco state said the explosions were “a trap” set by the cartel to kill law enforcement personnel.
Luis Méndez, the chief prosecutor of Jalisco state, said the blasts late Tuesday in the township of Tlajomulco were so powerful they left craters in the road, destroyed at least four vehicles and wounded 14 other people.
It appeared to be the first time that a Mexican cartel killed law enforcement personnel with improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, and was the latest example of the increasingly open, military-style challenge posed by the country’s drug cartels.
Méndez said the two dead civilians were in a vehicle that happened to be passing the spot when the IEDs detonated in Tlajomulco, near the state capital of Guadalajara. He suggested the bombs may have been remotely detonated, saying the blast “happened at the moment they wanted.”
He said 12 of the wounded were also civilians, including three children ages 9, 13 and 14. He said some of the wounded were in serious condition. Experts had to defuse an eighth IED that did not detonate, and warned the area was still dangerous, Méndez said.
Enrique Alfaro, the governor of Jalisco state, said an anonymous caller who gave a volunteer search group a tip about a clandestine burial site near the roadway set “a trap” for the officers.
For years, police have been unable to locate the more than 110,000 missing people in Mexico, but they accompany volunteer search groups that look for such hidden graves. The volunteers, usually the mothers of missing people, often get anonymous tips about where their relatives may be buried.
Jalisco Gov. Enrique Alfaro said a total of eight “improvised explosive devices” were planted on the roadway.
“This is a brutal terror attack,” Alfaro said at a news conference Wednesday, blaming the deaths on an unnamed drug cartel. He said he was temporarily suspending police escorts for volunteer searches for the safety of the civilians.
Just another day in Fallujah.
ReplyDeleteGovernment wants to keep allowing them cartels to grow soon you will see Culiacanzos all over mexico
ReplyDeleteCuliadanazos were happening before the Culiadanazos.
DeleteWhere have you been? Not to many bombs but body’s piled up in mounds for about 2 decades!!
ReplyDeleteIs there a god? If so why would he continue to let this happen he's so powerful and so well off this world is pure s*** nothing to be proud of.
ReplyDeleteOfcourse not ! Duh. Only the devil is real!
DeleteGod give everybody and everything free will to chose. Byproduct of greed and evil in people worldwide.
DeleteGodfather Saturn loves human sacrifices. He's Numinous and Sinister at the same time. We are his play things and he looshes our suffering, it is his meals. Don't you see how the Romans (sons of Saturn) seasoned Jesus to be devoured by the heavenly father? Same thing here.
DeleteAliens are the Gods
Delete@7:10am. He/She/It is probably not the loving being we envision or willfully believe. Still, I think only a fool completely disregards the unknown. There may come a day you may requisition some spiritual assistance. If you're lucky it might come.
DeleteYou enjoy your free will, yes?
DeleteAs horrible as this is, it might be the beginning of change. Let these IED's kill the children of the national politicians. Then you will see change. Just like US politicians, Mexican politicians may sympathize with the victims of cartel violence.
ReplyDeleteBut they don't FEEL.
And they will if their children get splattered all over the countryside. Just like GOP children in the US.
Well said, but half the politicians are paid off and controlled by the bomb makers and their associates. What a mess.
DeleteThe terrorist pigs cjng doing what they always have been doing, terrorizing communities they enter or “control”. They are the new zetas. That need to be eliminated but they are the us government’s puppets for the proxy war they have planned since the president of Mexico privatized the country’s lithium. Cough
ReplyDeleteSol is too quite
ReplyDeleteSo early and I'm already on your mind 😄
Delete8:48 The quiet ones are the CDS lovers when the post of the CDS fucking with the honest hard working people of the Jelly Fish industry, didnt see none of yall
DeleteIt's prolly cause no one gives a fuck about the jelly fish trade or any war over it. Lol at you!
DeleteShoutout 2 sol from near ur former stomping grounds at fb. Thanks 4 all ur hard work & everybody over the years @ bb staff. You were always 1 of my favorites even as a commentator. You pissed some off then . Keep up the good work. Miss ur sol zu quotes from back in the day! Best wishes.
DeleteSoleno......Texas is so 🥵 hot the asphalt is melting off the roadways.
DeleteThe lizards are staying underground.
The birds under trees.
Yes its extremely hot in Texas today. I'm going through about 10 - 15 bottles of water a day. I kinda wish I would've stayed in Miami a little longer. At least there it rains periodically and the heat doesn't feel as bad.
DeleteI never seen pavement melt of roadways in texas. But it is hot af.
Delete11:22 its not about the jelly fish trade its about CDS fucking with honest working people, when you guys swear they didnt, is like when the CJNG was scamming people in PV yall went nutts, at least the people been scamed had money but the Jelly fish workers live day by day, but can i spect from people like you who cheer for a bunch of snitching, chomos Aka the CDSnitchomos 🤣🤣🤣
DeleteSol, what’s your absolute fav food to eat in Texas?
DeleteGood food and Texas don't mix
Delete4:46 Ostioneria Michoacan, Gringo's, and Texas Roadhouse are a chain of worthwhile restaurant's here in Houston. The first place I call The OM for short. Good seafood. Gringo's is cool Mexican food. And the last place has fabulous steaks. You're allowed to throw peanut shells on ground at the roadhouse while waiting to be seated. Highly recommended to everyone. Friend or foe.
Delete5:17 you cant win us over with peanuts
DeleteAt the OM there was a fight some months back. A woman caught her husband in there with his side chick. Right away a fight broke out between all three of them. I was just settling in to eat my Yucatan plate while all of it went down. The place was packed that night. So, naturally all the drunk people went apeshit and were cheering the show on. Can't complain though considering we got some good glimpses of both women going at it like crazy. But since then there's security in there.
DeleteDon Sol
DeleteYour Electric bill is going to be sky high, for running that a/c the whole month.
@722 — Lmao.. sounds like a hell of a night. If you could pick one place in the world to visit, all expenses paid, where would it be?
DeletePeace… 🦉
9:08 I'm a very simple dude. Corn tortillas, onions, avocados, pork chops, steaks, Mexican cheese, a decent grill, and a bottle of liquor. I'll settle for that anywhere I go.
Delete@1039 — honestly FAR greater and more nutritious than any American diet… 🦉
DeleteWas just in Houston. Saw the Stroz beat the Ángels and had dam good steak at Pappadeauxs. One of the best steaks I’ve had….
DeleteOnce this hits the US media they will be calling for the cartels to be classified as terrorist organizations, again.
ReplyDeleteThis time, they'll be correct.
DeleteQuestions, what happened to Chivas? And where is the I washed my car and a bird pooped on it commentator?
ReplyDeleteChivis retired and is living happily ever after somewhere. The car wash commentor still comes through every so often.
DeleteI seriously thought the car wash shower guy was a bot..
Delete4:46 could be a bot BB wouldn't be able to tell all they would see is the IP. If you port scanned the IP maybe you would know but unlikely
Delete4:48
DeleteIt's not a bot. No reason to be messing on BB site. Sol made it clearly, it's a person that comes in to comment, lay low on the drugs, otherwise you will continue to be paranoid.😳
@644 — what a life…
DeleteIm sure the hug not bullets strategy is working very well!
ReplyDeleteMr /Mrs Char would you agree that the term terrorist is of a more political driven group.
ReplyDeleteFalse flag to heat up the plaza?
ReplyDeleteMaybe srdl or the 100 others that we don’t know exist
ReplyDeleteMaybe it was Professor Plum..
DeleteBack on topic, what's the analysis on what kind of remote-controlled IEDs these narcos are using? are they pressure-detonating landmines or C4 packs or fertilizer-based or what? Maybe Sicario 006 can enlighten us plebes and punters...
ReplyDeleteClearly government grade C4… duh!
DeleteGo ask the Cartel that used it, becareful
Deleteyou might come back sliced up for being a Mitichi (nosey bird).
It's the colombians who came to México to fight against cjng.. and I'm not talking about the clips recently seen were a bunch of nobodies said they're going to defend colombia from CJNG, no.
ReplyDeleteEx kaibles from guat and el sal and ex guerilleros from colombian have joined the ranks of CSRL/NP/TEOCALTICHE/CU to fight against CJNG.
More events like these will continue to happen all over of jalisco.
7:22 y luego te caiste de la cama y te despertaste? Lla CJNG le quito la plaza a MG, lla no lloren, los colombianos tampoco van a aguantar, si es lo que estan asiendo para calentar la plaza les va a ir peor, tu crees que el govierno de jalisco ca a dejar que entren colombianos a meter minas?claro que no! es tan ovio como que la lumbre quema!
DeleteTeocaltiche es 100% MG de que hablas? Alcaso no as visto los ultimos intentos de incursiones del CJNG? Los regresan a 50tazos, hasta las blindadas dejan tiradas.
DeleteCalentar la plaza? Y lo estan logrando. El carro bomba en Guanajuato se lo achacaron al cjng igual el de tlajo?
Al gobierno de jalisco le vale madre. Se venden al mejor postor, ahi esta el claro ejemplo en teocaltiche.
Los del cjng no pueden con sus rivales menos van a poder con los guerilleros que yegaron a trabajar encubiertos.
11:07 Eso fue casi un mes atras, por ahi se dice que los sacaron ALV por eso los narco bloqueos de esta semana
Delete1248 los narco bloqueos fueron de los mismos jaliscos en su huida. Por eso mismo tiraron los panfletos, porque el flama y su hermano siguen controlando teocaltiche.
Delete1:24 aja fijate, deja corro y abiento panfletos y pongo minas en mis terrenos para calentar mi propia plaza 🤣
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