SECURITY |
Police officers murdered. On 14 June eight police officials were murdered and a deputy inspector went missing following an attack by at least 15 armed men on a police station in the municipality of Saljaca, in the south western province of Quetzaltenango. President Otto Pérez Molina attributed the attack to “one of three groups of narco-traffickers operating in the south west of the country” but failed to specify which one or the motive behind the attack. The attack is the biggest attributed to narco-traffickers since the Pérez Molina administration took office in January 2012. One anonymous police source cited by local media attributed the attack to drug traffickers active in Santa Ana Huista, in the western department of Huehuetenango which “at times” operates together with “some of the Mexican drug gangs but not the Zetas”. In March 2012 Interior Minister Mauricio López Bonilla said that the Zetas had become the largest criminal organisation operating in Guatemala.
End of preview - This article contains approximately 159 words.
Subscribers: Log in now to read the full article
Not a Subscriber?
Choose from one of the following options