The president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, assured this Wednesday that the wave of violence recorded in the state of Michoacán is related to a series of operations deployed by security forces against "several relevant targets" of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG).
The incidents have impacted a dozen municipalities, with particular intensity in Zamora, La Piedad, and Jiquilpan, in addition to several stretches of highways, some of which are key routes linking Michoacán with the neighboring state of Jalisco. All of this occurs in a context of a strong deployment of security forces in the town of Tinaja de Vargas.
From this population comes Heraclio Guerrero Martínez, known as 'Tío Lako', one of the leaders of the CJNG, who would be among those "relevant targets" mentioned by the president during her morning press conference this Wednesday.
"It is an operation that they have been carrying out since early morning," Sheinbaum indicated, who specified that it will be the Security authorities who will be in charge of providing updates as new events occur.
According to information disseminated by some local Mexican media, the operation would have included a confrontation between security forces and armed men in the vicinity of the highway that connects Zamora with La Piedad, in the area of Pátzcuaro, Michoacán. This clash would have triggered the response with blockades and other violent acts in different points of the state.