{"id":193218,"date":"2022-06-16T00:09:17","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T18:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=193218"},"modified":"2022-06-16T00:09:17","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T18:39:17","slug":"armed-groups-swarm-through-city-in-southern-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/06\/16\/armed-groups-swarm-through-city-in-southern-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed groups swarm through city in southern Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">MEXICO CITY , 15 Jun (AP) \u2014 Dozens of heavily armed men swarmed through the Mexican colonial-era city of San Cristobal de las Casas, and President Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador said Wednesday that one person was killed in confrontations between two gangs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">L\u00f3pez Obrador said the confrontation involved \u201ctwo groups that are fighting for control of a market\u201d in San Cristobal. The dispute apparently involved the control of contraband sold in the market.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was unclear if either of the groups were drug gangs. L\u00f3pez Obrador claimed that 75% of homicides in Mexico \u201care related to confrontations between gangs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Powerful drug cartels, and their disputes for territory, have fueled much of Mexico\u2019s persistently high homicide rate. There were over 34,300 homicides in Mexico in 2021.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">L\u00f3pez Obrador said that in states where one gang is in undisputed control, there are few murders.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Frightened residents in San Cristobal de las Casas posted videos of the armed men Tuesday, showing organized squads of men carrying military-style rifles through the city.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">San Cristobal de las Casas was briefly taken over by Indigenous Zapatista rebels during their 1994 uprising. The southern city is popular among tourists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEXICO CITY , 15 Jun (AP) \u2014 Dozens of heavily armed men swarmed through the Mexican colonial-era city of San Cristobal de las Casas, and President Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador said Wednesday that one person was killed in confrontations between two gangs. L\u00f3pez Obrador said the confrontation involved \u201ctwo groups that are fighting for control [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-193218","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}