By Buggs for Borderland Beat
The mayor of Ciudad Juárez, Cruz Pérez Cuéllar, said that the rise in homicides in recent days is due to confrontations between gangs that are dedicated in trafficking people and drugs (as seen in the second video below).
Mayor Cuéllar went on to say “There are indications that it has to do with human trafficking, there is a dispute between criminal groups that are dedicated to trafficking. Apparently, there was a dispute that elevated to violence of crime, but we are attempting to control it. It appears there was an internal rupture in the criminal groups in the city and this is what caused this spike in homicides. We are in full coordination with the prosecutor's office,” he said in a press conference.
The spike in violence prompted Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) to deploy 400 military forces around the city of Ciudad Juárez. These soldiers belong to a special unit that is characterized by their fast mobility in their deployment capacity.
