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Weekly Report - 04 February 2016 (WR-16-05)
MEXICO: Osorio Chong guns for peace in Guerrero
The federal government is making a fresh bid to pacify the most violent parts of the conflict-torn state of Guerrero. Six days after Interior Minister Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong visited Guerrero, 3,750 members of the federal security forces followed in his footsteps. Osorio Chong’s visit took him to the Guerrero municipality of Chilapa, where he confirmed the installation of a military barracks with state and federal resources, construction of which will begin “practically immediately”. Chilapa is the scene of a ferocious turf war between two rival criminal gangs, Los Rojos and Los Ardillos, leading to scores of brutal murders and disappearances, over the last two years. The objective of the massive deployment is to arrest the leaders of these gangs and restore some semblance of normality to the affected communities.
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