During the afternoon of this past December 6, The explosion of a car bomb was recorded – just outside the local Community Police base – and in front of the mayor’s office of Coahuayana, in the state of Michoacán. It was bodies from this same corporation who accused that it could have been an attack perpetrated by the New Generation Cartel (CNG).
“At the site, a truck damaged by the explosion was located, as well as the remains of two people. It was also reported that, as a result of this event, eight people—members of the Community Police—were injured.so they were channeled to a hospital, where “The death of three of them was later confirmed while receiving medical attention.”reported the Attorney General’s Office of Michoacán.
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Inhabitants of Coahuayana fear the violence that plagues them
“After that shock, nothing will be the same again, even though right now it is the place with the most security, therefore, military, marine, National Guard and state (police)”says Higinio, a resident of Coahuayana, where a car bomb exploded on Saturday.
The fear of the residents of this municipality, in the Sierra-Costa Region of Michoacán, is great, knowing that two subjects were inside the vehicle loaded with explosives that exploded. Reports indicate that The attackers entered Michoacán, at 7:30 a.m., on Highway 200, Colima-Lázaro Cárdenas, with four more subjects traveling in two other vehicles, all coming from Tecomán, Colima.
Upon reaching the Coahuayana bridge, right where the states of Michoacán and Colima are divided, the subjects stopped the vehicles for several minutes. According to images in the possession of the authorities, at that point the criminals got out of the vehicles, one of which – a Suburban-type truck – already had a load of explosives prepared.
Minutes before 12 noon, the noise made the earth shake, the car bomb exploded outside the Community Police base, in front of the municipal presidency.
“At that moment it gave me a lot of anger and helplessness. At first I thought it was a drone shot at the presidency or the (Police) base; I ran towards where I had heard it and when the surprise came that it wasn’t a drone, it was a car bomb,” says Evangelina Contreras Ceja, a resident of Coahuayana.
She is one of the hundreds of women who have been displaced by violence in other municipalities of the entity and who took refuge in Coahuayana.
“It was terrifying.”
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“If you look behind me, everything is completely destroyed. The bakery, the ice cream shop, the pharmacy, the butcher shop are destroyed and the wounded were there. At that moment, the only dead were those from the car bomb”the woman emphasizes, while pointing towards ground zero.
There are also six damaged vehicles at the site, in addition to homes, businesses and more cars and trucks 200 meters away, hit by the shock wave.
He says that he entered the Community Police base, already damaged in its structure by the explosion, where he remained until around 3 in the afternoon, with the intention of joining the relief efforts.
“I went out, I went to my house and when I was walking, I began to see so many human pieces inside the kindergarten, where I was walking, large and small fragments. In other words, those that came in the car bomb were torn to pieces. It was not only an attack on the Community Police base, but also on the population.”dice.
He regretted that the criminals did not care that there were children, people walking or that it was a place full of businesses, to blow up that car.
He recalled that for six years and, As a result of the attacks by the New Generation Cartel against Coahuayana, the inhabitants have demanded the intervention of the federal government to stop the offensives, it has not made the slightest attempt.
“I say it clearly, that the CNG has always wanted to enter the municipal seat and the one who has contained all the attacks is the Community Police, they are the ones who protect us. So, The Michoacán Plan does not protect us and what we have demanded is that they do not come to criminalize the security that exists, but rather to reinforce it, because only the people give security to the people“, said.
Like Evangelina, the inhabitants of Coahuayana say they are immersed in fear, uncertainty and insecurity. They fear what could happen when the deployment of armed forces, federal and state, withdraw with their operation.
They point to “El Yogur”
Regional security authorities point to the Nueva Generación Cartel, led in this region by Abraham Jesús Amador Cano, alias “El Yogur,” as responsible for the attack.
“But the one who gave the direct order was Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, El Mencho,” says a consulted source. “El Yogur” is the regional leader of that criminal organization throughout the entirety of the states of Michoacán, Jalisco and Colima.
Abraham Jesús Amador has headed attacks on the towns of Coahuayana, as well as on towns in Aquila, and has carried out offensives against military, Navy and National Guard personnel.
Furthermore, also He is blamed for the disappearance of numerous indigenous activists. Until now, He is the main suspect in the car bomb attack on Rayón Avenue, where the forensic investigations were taking place yesterday.
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