The homicide of Yolanda Sánchez, mayor of Cotija, is blamed on the CJNG cell

The mayor of Cotija was shot exterior a gymnasium. (Fb/Yolanda Sánchez)

Hours following the dying of Yolanda Sánchez Figueroa, mayor of the municipality of Cotija, Michoacán, was confirmed, varied stories circulated in regards to the potential authorship of the crime.

One of many variations, taken up by El Common, signifies that behind the armed assault there might be a felony cell referred to as ‘Calaveras’, linked to the Jalisco New Era Cartel (CJNG).

The knowledge obtainable, this group operates within the space often called the ‘Dying Row’, which incorporates the municipalities of Cotija, Villamar, Jiquilpan, Venustiano Carranza, Marcos Castellanos, Sahuayo, Briseñas, Vista Hermosa, Zamora, Pajacuarán, Vista Hermosa, Chavinda, Tangamandapio and Jacona.

In keeping with the primary report from the State Lawyer Common’s Workplace (FGE) of Michoacán, minutes earlier than 9:00 p.m. on June 3, the mayor and her escort, municipal police officer Jesús V., left a gymnasium within the middle from Cotija to go to the official’s home.

Whereas they had been strolling on Juárez Avenue, a bunch of hitmen aboard a white van intercepted them and, from the automobile, unloaded their assault rifles.

The municipal president of Cotija was kidnapped for greater than two days in 2023. (Fb/Yolanda Sánchez)

Yolanda Sánchez would have been hit by a minimum of 18 photographs from a 7.62×39 caliber bullet, leaving her significantly injured. Each she and her escort had been taken to a hospital in Los Reyes, however died whereas receiving medical consideration.

The info shared by journalist Carlos Arrieta exhibits that throughout the morning of June 4, the identical CJNG cell that claimed duty for the assault issued a number of threats in opposition to Juan Pablo Aguilar Barragán, candidate of the Nationwide Motion Celebration (PAN) who was winner in Cotija following the current election day.

Along with this, journalist Miguel García Tinoco, correspondent for Grupo Imagen, commented that one of many traces of investigation that the authorities are following is that the homicide of Yolanda Sánchez might possibly be associated to what they demanded of her in 2023, when she was kidnapped by hitmen of this felony group.

Supposedly, the directions that the CJNG would have given to Sánchez Figueroa would have been linked to electoral issues.

On the followingnoon of September 23, 2023, Yolanda Sánchez was disadvantaged of her freedom following leaving a shopping mall in Zapopan, Jalisco. Three days later, the municipal president was launched alive in Villamar, Michoacán.

Further stories shared by García Tinoco state that the CJNG had management of the plaza, however in 2023 a neighborhood group primarily based in Los Reyes would have managed to displace the four-letter cartel from the municipalities of Cotija, Tocumbo and Tingüindín.

Since 2020, a Carteles Unidos cell has issued a number of warnings that evidenced its dispute in Los Reyes with the CJNG. “You do not are available in right here in Los Reyes, Mencho, inform your individuals to select up their drug tanks, they left them full,” acknowledged a message unfold by his hitmen.

Presently, it’s presumed that the chief of Cárteles Unidos within the space might be Luis Enrique Barragán Chávez, alias ‘El R5’ or ‘Wicho de Los Reyes’.