Mexican President Encourages Investigation Of Authority Involvement In War On Drugs In Guanajuato

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (Twitter / @ lopezobrador_)

JAKARTA - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador condemned the attack on a drug rehabilitation center that killed 24 people on Thursday, July 2. Andres asked the authorities in Guanajuato to investigate the violence that made the whole city panic.

As reported by CNA, the attack was strongly suspected of being related to the war between the drug cartel gangs which was heating up. However, Andres is determined to request further investigation regarding the conspiracy between the local government and the criminal gangs.

"This is a very serious situation that Guanajuato is suffering from. There are confrontations between the gangs (criminals) and a large part of it is feud between them," the President added.

As stated in the police report, the gunmen then entered a drug rehabilitation center on Wednesday. They forced the victims to lie on the ground and then opened fire on them. As a result, dozens of people died. Seven others were injured.

Andres also revealed that the incident was the second deadliest attack since he came to power in December 2018. This is because last August a drug cartel also broke up in the state of East Veracruz, which killed 28 people.

Meanwhile, the Governor of Guanajuato, Diego Sinhue, is meeting with the security authorities to discuss the criminal gang attack. Diego suspects that the presence of a large-scale energy company in Guanajuato is the culprit of the problem because it turns the Santa Rosa de Lima drug cartel against the Jalisco cartel for power.

Not only that, supporting his assumption, Diego said the police had arrested 26 suspects from members of the Santa de Lima cartel, who were the culprits of burning vehicles in three cities. In fact, a few days earlier, the police had found a murder case against a family in the city of Celaya.

According to official data, since 2006, more than 290,000 murders have occurred in Mexico, although many of them are not related to organized crime. Nevertheless, human rights (HAM) defenders often attribute violence in Mexico to the state's intention to use the military to fight drug cartels.