Teachers of different educational levels who work in the Sierra de Coyuca region of Benítez, Guerrero, reported that a group of armed men, presumably Los Tlacos, robbed them of their cars, as well as a set of keys to educational establishments in the area. , so they announced the suspension of classes.
Through messages spread on social networks, the teachers, who requested anonymity, announced that a group of around 20 individuals carrying long weapons and covering their faces with military-type clothing intercepted them on the road to Las Lomitas and with threats took away their vehicles.
21 kilometers from Las Lomitas is the town of Aguas Blancas, where on June 28, 1996, the guerrilla group calling itself the Popular Revolutionary Army (EPR) appeared in the area one year after the massacre of 28 peasants at the hands of state police. in the government of PRI Rubén Figueroa Alcocer, who resigned months later and was replaced by Ángel Aguirre Rivero, who at that time was a local deputy.
From the events recorded on the morning and afternoon of this Tuesday, April 16, Public Security sources announced that the armed group that allegedly stripped the teachers of their vehicles is the criminal gang known as Los Tlacos, which operates in the region of the Guerrero mountain range.
Who are Los Tlacos?
This criminal group is led by Onesimo Marquina, known as “El Necho”, and is part of the General Heliodoro Castillo Community Police. The residents explained on social networks that the same criminal gang has already attacked the population of El Paraíso de Atoyac de Álvarez and Tepetixtla, also belonging to Coyuca de Benítez.
This criminal gang also released a video on social networks this Tuesday where it announced for the first time its presence in the Sierra de Coyuca de Benítez, governed by the Morenoist Osiel Pacheco Salas.
The Tlacos are a criminal group that is in conflict with La Familia Michoacana, a gang that operates in the Tierra Caliente region of the entity.
Catholic Church mediated a truce between criminal groups
The criminal group, according to statements by Catholic priests such as Father Filiberto and Bishop José de Jesús González, had a recent fight with Los Ardillos, another gang that operates in the Centro de Guerreo region, where they deprived the lives of several workers. of the wheel in the fight for the plaza.
The intervention of the Catholic Church allowed a truce to be achieved that has been maintained for a month, on March 17, and that the criminal gangs had reached.
The bishop emeritus of the Chilpancingo-Chilapa Diocese, Salvador Rangel Mendoza, confirmed the agreement that resolved the crisis of violence that impacted the transportation sector and paralyzed the city of Chilpancingo by suspending the routes of hundreds of transporters.
Residents and community authorities deny having knowledge of the assault on the teachers
Public security authorities reported in a statement that “State Police personnel responded to a report of an alleged criminal act in the town of Las Lomitas, in the municipality of Coyuca de Benítez.”
According to the official report from the government of Guerrero, communal authorities and residents “indicated that they had no reports of any situation of violence in the area,” the letter indicates.
It is also reported that the operation was carried out “in a joint and coordinated manner between the police personnel of the State Public Security Secretariat, elements of the National Defense Secretariat, National Guard, State Attorney General’s Office and Municipal Police.”
In the area, they say, “patrols were carried out through educational establishments and different areas of the towns of Las Lomitas, El Porvenir and El Terrero, without finding signs of any criminal act.”
Finally, it was established that public security authorities will maintain surveillance in the municipality of Coyuca de Benítez to respond to any report that is presented by local residents.
Note published in El Sol de Acapulco
2024-04-17 03:24:07
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