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“Enojon” For Borderland Beat
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“Pueblo
Oprimido de [Frontera] Comalapa, estamos llegando para liberarlos de la mugre
del CJNG. Vamos con todo.
Atte. CDS”
“Oppressed town of [Frontera] Comalapa, we’re here to liberate you from the
filth of CJNG. We’re coming with everything.
Sincerely, CDS”
Similar
blockades were placed at various points of Frontera Comalapa on July 28th,
by members of the Agrarian Indigenous Zapatista Movement (MAIZ), a
paramilitary group that has been identified as operatives of the Jalisco New
Generation Cartel (CJNG).
According to El Universal, members of ‘El MAIZ’ blockaded the
Tres Maravillas bridge, a portion of Highway 211 located in the Nuevo México
community, the highway that leads towards Nueva Independencia, and various
roads leading to the municipalities of Chicomuselo and Motozintla de Mendoza.
No motive has been determined for the blockades. El MAIZ is linked to a prior
attack against a National Guard base located in the same
municipality last January.
The
blockades come amid a surge of violence between members of the CJNG and the Sinaloa Cartel, stemming from a territorial dispute over Frontera Comalapa, a strategic
region that allows criminal organizations to expand their human and drug
trafficking operations into Guatemala.
Sources: Hyperlinked Within Text