At least 19 dead in clashes between drug traffickers

At least 19 people were killed in Mexico, including four Guatemalans, during a clash between two drug cartels in the state of Chiapas, the Security Ministry announced this Monday, July 1, which revised its toll to the decline.

In a goods truck, “14 men were found murdered with firearms, two others in the cabin, two on the side and another about 100 meters away,” he said in a press release, which previously report of 20 dead.

The events occurred last Friday in the town of La Concordia, a few hours’ drive from the border with Guatemala.

Violence linked to cartels has left some 450,000 dead and more than 100,000 missing since 2006 in Mexico, when the president at the time, Felipe Calderon (2006-2012), launched a military offensive against drug trafficking.