Chiapas Carnage: Gang War Over Drugs and Migrants Claims 19 Lives

Mexico's President López Obrador attributed the massacre of 19 men in Chiapas to a brutal gang war over drug and migrant trafficking routes. The violent conflict between Mexican and Guatemalan drug cartels has resulted in numerous mass killings, forcing many residents to flee their homes.

In a chilling revelation, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador confirmed on Tuesday that the massacre of 19 men in Chiapas was fueled by a violent dispute between rival drug cartels. The tragedy underscores the deadly stakes of drug and migrant trafficking in the region.

López Obrador pointed to an ongoing feud between two rival cartels, exacerbated by lucrative smuggling routes. Federal forces, he said, are striving to protect local residents, despite an alarming surge in violence marked by several recent mass killings.

Authorities discovered the bodies on Monday, dumped in and around a truck near the Guatemalan border in La Concordia. The victims, including six men with Guatemalan identity documents, had been executed amid the fierce turf battles raging between the Sinaloa cartel and a rival gang with possible ties to the Jalisco cartel.

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