AZMEX UPDATE 24-9-17

AZMEX UPDATE 24 SEP 2017


New cartel seeks to seize Chihuahua
By Ernesto Topete | El Heraldo de Chihuahua
Friday, September 22, 2017 in Republic

https://www.tribunadesanluis.com.mx/republica/nuevo-cartel-busca-apoderarse-de-chihuahua

A third drug cartel that has emerged after the cell division of the Sinaloa and Juárez cartels operating in the state capital is what has caused the origin of the other criminal group that is responsible for at least 24 deaths in the last 15 days in the city of Chihuahua, although its emergence has been brewing for weeks.

The victims have been people linked to the purchase and sale of the drug, cocaine and crystal.

César Peniche Espejel, State Attorney General, reiterated that the outbreaks of violence that have occurred in recent days in the city are due to the emergence of a new cartel that seeks to seize control of the sale of drugs, for which it is eliminating it's alleged rivals.

"We have detected a group that is disputing the sale of drugs here in the city of Chihuahua and that is where the source of the conflict is, is a group that has tried to control the market and is trying to eliminate its potential rivals in this task said the state attorney.

Peniche Espejel explained that it is a local group, which already has existed but is made up by breaks between other gangs, which have been identified but they reserve the aliases and names of those responsible.

MASACRES

THIS YEAR

So far this year there have been 612 homicides by gun. In the month of September there have been 128 homicides with firearms, of which 113 were men and 15 women.

With the massacres in the bars "Balconcito", "LTS" and "Todos Santos" on June 30, the state capital registered 50 murders in June, a figure that for Ficosec indicates that the security strategy implemented in Chihuahua is not working as the figure soared with respect to the previous months.

From January to April, the number of intentional homicides increased from 45 to 22, but in May it rebounded to 35. "In the city of Chihuahua, the indicator of intentional homicides is on the rise and in red lights, the strategies of the police authorities are definitely not working "Said Ficosec

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