THE WELL-DOCUMENTED WAR BETWEEN THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT and organized drug cartels has been the cause for an unheard-of wave of homicides in several states. The state of Michoacan is one of those where the criminals have been very forceful in their brutal wave of terrorism designed to take control of the local governments.
The AP reported recently from there about an attack on an emergency ambulance:
Gunmen tossed a grenade at an ambulance and then opened its doors to kill a patient inside who had narrowly survived an earlier shooting in a drug cartel-plagued Mexican state Friday. Paramedics ran for their lives during the attack.
Vehicles carrying four masked gunmen cut off the ambulance around 2 a.m. as it carried the 23-year-old man to a hospital in Morelia, the capital on Michoacan state, according to a report from the state prosecutor’s office.
Assailants tossed a fragmentation grenade at the ambulance, setting it on fire, and the two paramedics ran away, according to the police report. The gunmen then opened the back doors and fired at the patient and his wife, who was accompanying him.
The man died and the 20-year-old woman was listed in serious condition. No arrests have been made.
The state prosecutor’s office said the victim had been taken to a local hospital by his family Sunday night after being wounded in a shootout between rival gangs in Uruapan, a center of Mexico’s avocado industry. He was being transferred early Friday to a better-equipped hospital in the state capital.
Also this past Friday, the federal government arrested and are holding seven mayors and 19 other gov’t. officials in Michoacan for taking bribes and tipping off drug gangs on police activity. The AP has that story HERE.
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