Violence in the Mexican border region with Guatemala has escalated in recent months amid a territorial dispute between the dominant Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel.
MEXICO CITY — Armed men abducted 14 state police officers in southern Mexico on Tuesday, prompting a heavy deployment of federal and local forces, authorities said.
An official with the state police force, who asked not to be quoted because he was not authorized to speak to the media, said the agents were traveling to the capital of Chiapas in a personnel transport truck when they were intercepted by several trucks with gunmen.The abduction occurred on the highway between Ocozocoautla and Tuxtla Gutiérrez.
During a tour of Chiapas on Friday, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador minimized the violence in the area, saying that “in general there is peace, there is tranquility” in the state.
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