Chihuahua– An attack perpetrated by members of the La Empresa criminal group left four people dead, all related to the criminal organization Los Chapos, inside a riding school in the Riberas del Sacramento neighborhood, where two other people were killed two weeks ago. murdered.
The District Attorney for the Central Zone, Francisco Martínez Valle, reported that investigations are underway to arrest those responsible, and indicated that La Empresa continues to be the organization responsible for the largest number of murders in the city in recent months.
It was around midnight on Saturday when armed subjects opened fire against several people who were in the building, located on the streets of Río Zaire and Río Ural in the aforementioned neighborhood, where a woman and three men lost their lives due to the injuries received from firearm shots, while two other people were injured. In that same place, on April 17, two individuals were murdered.
Three of the victims were identified as Miguel Jair Moreno, 25 years old; Luz Argelia Gamboa, 45, and Jonathan Vergara Gamboa, while the fourth fatality has not been identified.
The head of the Central Prosecutor’s Office reported that, according to the drug that was found at the scene, there are indications that this address serves as a riding school, this being the main reason for the attacks that have taken place.
It should be noted that, for several months, the groups La Empresa and Los Chapos have been in a dispute over control of drug dealing, the former being the one that has managed to position itself in various sectors of the city, while the latter has a greater presence in the southeast area of the city and in the area adjacent to the municipality of Aquiles Serdán.
There is already a ‘fierce and violent struggle’ in Juárez: Salas
With or without the pressure that the search for “Los Chapitos” may bring on the part of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) of the United States Government, in Juárez there is already a “fierce and violent” fight for the control of some criminal activities, declared in an interview the District Attorney for the North Zone, Carlos Manuel Salas.
“The Sinaloa Cartel, Killer Artists, La Línea, Aztecas, Mexicles have disputed the territory… From the borders of Sinaloa, Chihuahua, Durango; from Coyame, Ojinaga, the Valley, or Buenaventura, Casas Grandes and even Juárez”, the state official specified.
It was the criminal analysis and investigation expert José Carlos Hernández Aguilar who pointed out that the issuance of rewards and forthcoming extradition requests against the sons of the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera, by the DEA will have repercussions in Chihuahua given the presence of the criminal organization in Chihuahuan territory.
“Los Chapitos” are wanted by the DEA for their alleged participation in the entry and distribution of fentanyl to the United States, which Hernández Aguilar considered “constitutes a true squeeze of a political nature against the passivity and indolence of the Mexican government” and could mean the distribution of fentanyl in large quantities in Mexico given the impossibility of trafficking it to the neighboring country to the north.
