Nine people were killed in an attack by gunmen near Puebla, in central Mexico, the state government announced in the tourist region that is comparatively less affected by drug cartel violence than several other of the 32 Mexican states.
The attack in Atlisko took place in a house where drugs were hidden, according to authorities. Miguel Barbosa, the governor in Puebla, said "six men and three women" who lived in a "middle-class neighborhood" were "executed.""According to the initial evidence" of the investigation, the house where the attack was committed "was a point of sale and distribution of drugs," he added."
After arriving in semi-trucks, gunmen entered the house and opened fire, according to the testimony of a bystander who asked not to be identified.
About 150 kilometers from the capital, Puebla is best known for the pre-Hispanic archaeological sites in Cholula, its colonial-style historic center, as well as its "mole," a sauce based on pepper and chocolate.
The massacre was committed before two weeks had passed since the one in Michoacán (west). At least eleven people were executed on February 28 in a settling of scores between two rival drug cartel factions, according to early investigative evidence. The bodies of the victims of the massacre, committed during the mother of one, have not been found. Local media reported at least 17 dead.
Anonymous amateur video, which shook a country otherwise used to extreme gang violence, is the main evidence of the massacre, by a multi-member team of hitmen, of people lined up against a wall with their hands on their heads. Mexico has been wracked for some fifteen years by a wave of violence with 340,000 dead and 100,000 missing, according to official figures.
The violence began to escalate when former president Felipe Calderón declared his highly controversial totalitarian "war" against the drug cartels, deploying the army inside the country. Current President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador says he prefers the policy summed up by the phrase "hugs, not rifles," but he too has entrusted the military to deal with powerful organized crime gangs.
Source: Proto Thema
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