Mexico City police chief shot dead in ‘drug cartel hit’

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Mexico City police chief shot dead in ‘drug cartel hit’

telegraph.co.uk

Milton Morales Figueroa reportedly killed by gunmen while enjoying a family day out

Mexico City’s head of intelligence and police operations has been gunned down in an apparent drug cartel hit.

Milton Morales Figueroa, 40, is reported to have died instantly in a hail of bullets in the town of Coacalco, just north of the Mexican capital, on a family day out on Sunday.

He was hit at least twice in the head when gunmen jumped out of two SUVs with darkened windows which had suddenly pulled up as the police commander and relatives stopped at a small supermarket in a residential street. Two other people were reportedly injured. One is thought to have been a bodyguard and the other a family member.

Somewhat ironically, Omar Garcia Harfuch, nominated to her cabinet by Mexican President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum, was a former Mexico Police Chief who survived an assassination attempt in 2020.

Garcia Harfuch is suspected of being involved in the infamous disappearances of 43 students from Ayotzinapa Rural Teacher’s College, being head of the Federal Police of the region who abducted and allegedly tortured the students before killing them. https://nacla.org/rebirth-omar-garcia-harfuch

Well that was a lot of horrible info to take in, thanks.

I don't know anything about the guy but it must take some serious balls to do a job like that in Mexico City.

For a second I thought you were talking about the hit, but now I realise you mean the police chief part.

The hit too. To be so expendable, it was a suicide mission, and the shooters' families, so expendable, too. They hand you the gun; you can either shoot them, shoot yourself, or go shoot some stranger, and if you do anything other than shoot the stranger, they kill you and your family, too. That's what's behind the drug trade. Mexico doesn't go after the banks that enable the cartels, so this is what they choose.

It's like in America how the old-monied elites refuse to act on overwhelmingly popular gun reforms, so they have chosen unchecked firearms deaths for the American public.

"attacks on senior officers from the capital remain relatively rare"

Goes on to describe another attack 3 and 1/2 years ago on a senior officer from the capital.

The operative word, which you quoted, is "relatively".

Yeah, they already throw in all the specifics of "senior" officials "from the capital city", but attacks are still so common there that they have to add in "relatively".

Jfc. The cartels have way too much power, they are Mexico's long embarrassment. Have to go after the banks that handle the money. They know where it's coming from.

Oh well, can't pick your neighbors.

um ... has anyone read Robert Bolano's "2666"

Mexico has been essentially a failed state for about 200 years. Its history is a series of coups and revolutions punctuated by periods of instability like we have today.

Mexico is highly dysfunctional and suffering from extreme levels of political violence, but no, it's not a failed state.

Make Mexico Spanish Again

Edit: it's just a joke :(

Isn't it their fault to begin with though? Spanish conquistadors aren't known for their positive influence on Native American peoples.

Comical take. Say more so I might watch with popcorn

Isn't it way past time they got the Iraq treatment?

Like, we go bomb the shit out of them and keep the country in limbo long enough for the power vacuum to be filled with a couple of larger terrorist groups?