By "El Huaso" for Borderland Beat
This afternoon, agents of the Fuerzas de Seguridad Pública del Estado (FSPE) engaged in a shootout with armed criminals on the highway between Celaya and Juventino Rosas, in central Guanajuato. The criminals responded by burning vehicles and establishing road blocks in the region. This happens just days after CJNG paralyzed the state with coordinated attacks across ten cities in Jalisco and Guanajuato in effort to disrupt a law enforcement operation against their leaders, as reported by Borderland Beat.
According to security expert David Saucedo, this region is controlled by the Cartel Santa Rosa de Lima.
Video from Audiorama Noticias Twitter.
Photos of the event show spiked caltrops on the ground, called "ponchallantas" (tire puncturerers), a common weapon used by criminals in Mexico against vehicles.
Guanajuato is the most violent in Mexico by its homicide count of 4,333 in 2021, which accounted for over 10% of the nations total, according to government data. This violence has had a profound effect on its citizens, 84.3% of whom responded that they feel unsafe in their city in 2021, a massive increase from the 59.6% who answered five years before, when conflict between large criminal groups arrived to the state.
Sources: Borderland Beat Archives, TV Consecuencias Facebook, WhatsApp correspondence with security expert David Saucedo.
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