Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Cartel thugs have burnt down and destroyed OXXOs, other stores, buses and houses in Jalisco – Guanajuato, Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua.
Drug cartel gunmen burned over two dozen stores and blocked streets with blazing vehicles in western Mexico in a response to a series of arrests of drug cartel figures, authorities said Wednesday.
Images circulated on social media showed men commandeering cars and buses and setting them on fire late Tuesday in the middle of roadways. Others showed burned out convenience stores.
The president said there was a shootout, arrests and “this provoked protests of burned vehicles, not only in Jalisco, but also in Guanajuato.”
The U.S. Consulate in Guadalajara, the capital of Jalisco state, issued an advisory instructing employees “to follow the advice of local authorities and to shelter in place until further notice.”
“Local authorities and media are reporting multiple road blockades, burning vehicles, and shootouts between Mexican security forces and unspecified criminal elements in various parts of the Guadalajara metropolitan area,” according to consulate.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Wednesday that soldiers had confronted criminals, including “bosses,” at a “meeting of two gangs” Tuesday in Jalisco state.
“Local authorities and media are reporting multiple road blockades, burning vehicles, and shootouts between Mexican security forces and unspecified criminal elements in various parts of the Guadalajara metropolitan area,” according to consulate.
Oxxo, a national chain of convenience stores owned by Femsa, the country’s largest bottling company, said in a statement that 25 of its stores in Guanajuato – which borders Jalisco, home to the cartel of the same name – were either totally or partially burned.
Sicarios attacked an OXXO store in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua. Four women were killed. In the past 24 hours, multiple stores have been attacked and damaged in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua. This maybe tied to the prison riot that killed three inmates earlier today. In those attacks one person was killed and multiple people have been injured.
More footage of today’s attack against various stores in Ciudad Juarez that killed at least five people.
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