Veracruz Massacre Crowns Bloody Start of 2019 in Mexico

By artappraiser on Fri, 04/26/2019 - 8:17pm |

By Parker Asman @ InsightCrime.org, April 24

An infant was among more than a dozen people killed in a massacre during the heart of Holy Week in Mexico, underscoring the depth of the security challenges facing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

In a grisly scene reminiscent of the most striking violence of Mexico’s drug war, gunmen killed 14 people — including a one-year-old baby — on April 19 during a family party in the town of Minatitlán in the state of Veracruz along Mexico’s Gulf coast, Milenio reported. Before indiscriminately opening fire on those attending the birthday party, between five and six armed men allegedly asked for and tried to kidnap “La Beky,” the manager of a local gay bar known as “La Esquina del Cha-KL,” who was among those killed in the attack [....]

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