Guerrero’s security council said gunmen stormed the San Miguel Totolapan municipality on Wednesday and opened fire on a meeting of the mayor with various officials.
Courtesy | Totolapan was controlled for years by the narco Raybel Jacobo de Almonte, alias “El Tequilero”
A drug gang shot dead 20 people, including a mayor and his father, in the mountains of southern Mexico, authorities said Thursday.
The men, who identified themselves as the Los Tequileros gang, claimed responsibility for the massacre in the state of Guerrero in a video posted on social media.
Guerrero’s security council said gunmen stormed the San Miguel Totolapan municipality on Wednesday and opened fire on a meeting of the mayor with various officials.
Among the victims were Mayor Conrado Mendoza and his father, former Mayor Juan Mendoza Acosta. The other victims are believed to be local officials.
The walls of the city hall, which at the time was surrounded by a children’s amusement park, were riddled with bullets. Totolapan is a mountain town with a large area but a sparse population in the region called Tierra Caliente, one of the most violent in the country.
The Undersecretary of Public Security of Mexico, Ricardo Mejía, said that Los Tequileros are fighting the Familia Michoacana cartel, and that the authenticity of the video is being verified.
“The event takes place in the context of the criminal dispute between criminal groups,” said Mejía. “In that regionion ruled for a time a group known as Los Tequileros, which was a group fundamentally dedicated to the transfer and commercialization of poppy, but also dedicated to kidnapping, extortion and perpetrated various homicides and disappearances in the region.
Totolapan was controlled for years by drug trafficker Raybel Jacobo de Almonte, alias “El Tequilero.”
In his only known public appearance, Alamonte appears in a video in 2015 drinking with Mendoza Sr., then the mayor-elect. It was not clear if Mendoza was there of his own free will or by force.
In that video, Alamonte appeared to be so drunk that his babbling was unintelligible and one of his henchmen was holding him up so he wouldn’t fall from his chair.
In 2016 the inhabitants of Totolapan, fed up with the Tequileros kidnappings, kidnapped the mother of the gang leader to force her to release her hostages.
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