The violence in the Tierra Caliente area, in Michoacán, it has nothing to do with a “revival” of the self-defense groups, but with the territorial control they want to maintain Viagras and its cells, trying to trick the population into believing that there is a march of the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG), said Israel Patron Reyes, the entity’s secretary of public security.
In an interview with MILLENNIUM He noted that in the communities of Pizándaro, Cenobio Moreno, Las Colonias, and other nearby communities, there have been attacks by residents on state and federal security forces for being “manipulated” by Los Viagras.
“Unfortunately, the information we have is that (the residents) receive an amount, either 300 pesos per day or up to 1,500 or 2,000 pesos per week to belong to this criminal group, or that they receive the amount of two thousand pesos for burning of a vehicle when they request a roadblock, ”he said.
Patron Reyes said intelligence work has allowed them to have “very conclusive” evidence about the “manipulation” they are carrying out. Viagra among the inhabitants of these communities, “using women, children and adults, in an attempt to show that this (the violence) is the result of the resurgence of the Jalisco cartel criminal group.”
“We have identified the cell that is manipulating these people and that it is actually a strategy that this group has against another criminal cell,” he added.
– What’s this cell called? And who are they playing against?
– In the area of Tierra Caliente, especially in the area of Pizándaro, Cenobio Moreno, Las Colonias, El Terrero, there is a cell known as ViagraThis cell even has other strongholds that call themselves Los Blancos de Troya, for example.
The official explained that there is a woman, who has made herself known to the media as self-defense, who is identified as a mother who unfortunately lost a son. He pointed out that there is a research folder in the attorney general’s office to search for his son.
But “this disappeared person has information showing that he belonged to a criminal cell, right from The Whites of Troy, a stronghold of the cell Viagra”.
There has been no resurgence of self-defense groups
These two groups, he added, have made their lawsuit public through social networks and in the communities themselves, where they defend criminal control of the area.
– So there is no revival of the self-defense groups, but is it a lawsuit between criminals?
-It is well. Let’s not forget that in 2013 self-defense groups emerged where some characters like Hipólito Mora, like Dr. (José Manuel) Mireles, made themselves known and defended themselves precisely against a hegemonic group that dominated the region in which they were. The Knights Templar and that the people were tired of the government’s puny response and become victims of murders, deprivation of liberty, extortion in lemon packs or in the lemon and avocado orchards themselves, including in the areas of wood and minerals. Everywhere could be seen that they had extortion but today it is very different, society does have a reaction from the government, the secretariat of the National Defense, the National Guard, the Michoacán police and the prosecution, we are permanently in this all the time.
The secretary has since remembered thatAfter years in Tierra Caliente, security institutions are under attack by crime.
“In recent months there have been aggressions related to roadblocks, burning of vehicles so that the institutions do not move forward and where especially women, children and adults also go out, some men who manipulate these people with sticks, stones and machetes do just that. as if government agencies were leaving this area.
Israel Patron Reyes made it clear that cooperation between the state and federal authorities is good today and that there is cooperation to address the problem, in addition to ongoing investigations, some of which yielded better results in 2020, compared to 2019.
The fact is, you don’t have to worry.