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This article was reposted from Proceso Magazine
The director of a news portal Carmen Vázquez rules out that organized crime was behind the attack against the authorities on July 11, as Governor Enrique Alfaro claimed.
GUADALAJARA, Jal. (proceso.com.mx) The director of a news portal about Tlajomulco, Carmen Vázquez Amador, said that she received calls, but not from the search groups, which led to the landmine attack against members of the Jalisco prosecutor’s office and municipal police on July 11, which left six dead and 15 injured.
At the same time, she ruled out that the Jalisco Cartel – New Generation (CJNG) was behind the attack against the authorities, as the governor Enrique Alfaro assured, and that it was a political blow against the municipal president of Tlajomulco, Salvador Zamora Zamora.
“The media took it upon themselves to blame the CJNG, I sincerely doubt it was them because it is not their way of working (…) Besides, I have never seen the cartel arrive and carry out terrorist attacks against children and women, or innocent people, they are pissed off by that (…) if anything pisses them off it is that innocent people die,” he said.
She considers that the attack came from someone “who wanted to heat up the terrain for the cartel; from everything I have been seeing, to heat up the terrain for the municipal president Zamora (…) because we all know that they are all candidates (…) and this is not the first blow they have dealt him”.
She asked the governor and the prosecutor’s office not to waste time on the line of investigation that the attack was carried out by the CJNG and to focus on the evidence he gave them when he filed the complaint.
Through a Facebook transmission, lasting 1 hour and 31 minutes, Carmen Vázquez said that on July 10 and 11 she received three calls and messages via Whatsapp from different people to inform her that there was a clandestine grave on Flaviano Ramos street, near the municipal capital. In addition, they shared with him the location and photos of the place.
One man even told her that he belonged to “la empresa” (another name for the CJNG) and that he had buried several people there. Carmen Vázquez passed the report on to the authorities, who came on the 10th but found nothing.
At the insistence of the alleged complainants, she again asked the Tlajomulco police, as well as the prosecutor’s office to go to the site. She states that she did not arrive at the scene due to a mechanical failure of her vehicle.
She indicates that she did not publish “the truth” of the attack because the prosecutor’s office asked her to wait so as not to hinder the investigation.
She considers that Sergio Julián and Samuel, the only two arrested for the attack, were not involved, they were only at the scene.
Both were indicted on July 21 for the crimes of aggravated homicide, attempted homicide and injuries committed against representatives of the authorities, according to investigation file 51844/2023.
After the attack, Alfaro informed that all searches for missing persons would be suspended when the information came from an anonymous report.
In view of this, Carmen Vázquez points out that “I am the only witness, in a certain way by telephone, who can really say what happened from the beginning, and it is not acceptable that the subject of the searching mothers is being discussed and they are not allowed to search”.
The communicator filed a complaint with the prosecutor’s office for threats she received through Facebook, for which she already has protection measures.