After not hearing from his loved one for days, his family discovered the body of a teenage boy who had just turned 17. The teenager was found in the Mexican border state of Coahuila after a gunfight with authorities and after spending several days in the city’s morgue. The teenager was one of two gunmen killed when a large group of armed men tried to invade the area.
The gunfight occurred last weekend near the city of Hidalgo in the state of Coahuila. The area where the attack took place is a common jumping off point for armed groups between the states of Coahuila, Nuevo León and Tamaulipas. All three states share a border with Texas. This unique geographic shape poses a jurisdictional nightmare for Mexican authorities, as armed groups can carry out attacks within one of her states or cross the border into neighboring states. is produced.
On the day of the attack, a group of armed men in several vehicles entered Coahuila state through a rural dirt road and were encountered by a Coahuila state police patrol. Officers clashed with the armed group and called for backup. After a fierce gunfight, the police allowed the gunmen to flee, but they were able to kill two of them and arrest eight others, including two women.
A judge in Coahuila state formally indicted the eight gunmen on multiple weapons and drug charges and ordered them held without bail.
During the week, relatives of a minor boy named Alexis Gomez Torres contacted authorities in Coahuila and were able to identify him as one of the gunmen killed in the attack. Gómez Torres was originally from Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, a city believed to be a stronghold of Los Zetas’ Cartel del Norest faction.
As Breitbart Texas reported, in 2019 CDN Los Zetas sent more than 100 gunmen to carry out a terrorist-style attack in Villa Union, Coahuila. After an hours-long gunfight with police, authorities managed to push the attackers back into Tamaulipas state. The fighting resulted in more than 24 casualties, including 17 gunmen. After the fact, government officials called the attack “terrorist” in nature and intended to spread panic among the local population.
Editor’s note: Breitbart Texas travels to Mexico City and the states of Tamaulipas, Coahuila, and Nuevo Leon to engage citizen journalists willing to risk their lives to expose the cartels that silence their communities. Recruited. If pseudonyms were not used, the authors would surely face death at the hands of the various cartels operating in these regions, including the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas. Breitbart Texas Cartel Chronicles Published in both English and original Spanish. This article was written by “JM Martinez” from Coahuila.
