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Milton Morales Figueroa reportedly killed by gunmen while enjoying a family day out

Mexico City’s head of intelligence and police operations has been gunned down in an apparent drug cartel hit.

Milton Morales Figueroa, 40, is reported to have died instantly in a hail of bullets in the town of Coacalco, just north of the Mexican capital, on a family day out on Sunday.

He was hit at least twice in the head when gunmen jumped out of two SUVs with darkened windows which had suddenly pulled up as the police commander and relatives stopped at a small supermarket in a residential street. Two other people were reportedly injured. One is thought to have been a bodyguard and the other a family member.

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[-] zabadoh@ani.social 42 points 1 month ago

Somewhat ironically, Omar Garcia Harfuch, nominated to her cabinet by Mexican President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum, was a former Mexico Police Chief who survived an assassination attempt in 2020.

Garcia Harfuch is suspected of being involved in the infamous disappearances of 43 students from Ayotzinapa Rural Teacher’s College, being head of the Federal Police of the region who abducted and allegedly tortured the students before killing them. https://nacla.org/rebirth-omar-garcia-harfuch

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 month ago

Well that was a lot of horrible info to take in, thanks.

[-] tlou3please@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago

I don't know anything about the guy but it must take some serious balls to do a job like that in Mexico City.

[-] Guntrigger@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 month ago

For a second I thought you were talking about the hit, but now I realise you mean the police chief part.

[-] JustZ@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The hit too. To be so expendable, it was a suicide mission, and the shooters' families, so expendable, too. They hand you the gun; you can either shoot them, shoot yourself, or go shoot some stranger, and if you do anything other than shoot the stranger, they kill you and your family, too. That's what's behind the drug trade. Mexico doesn't go after the banks that enable the cartels, so this is what they choose.

It's like in America how the old-monied elites refuse to act on overwhelmingly popular gun reforms, so they have chosen unchecked firearms deaths for the American public.

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"attacks on senior officers from the capital remain relatively rare"

Goes on to describe another attack 3 and 1/2 years ago on a senior officer from the capital.

[-] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

The operative word, which you quoted, is "relatively".

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

Yeah, they already throw in all the specifics of "senior" officials "from the capital city", but attacks are still so common there that they have to add in "relatively".

[-] JustZ@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Jfc. The cartels have way too much power, they are Mexico's long embarrassment. Have to go after the banks that handle the money. They know where it's coming from.

Oh well, can't pick your neighbors.

[-] TwinTusks@bitforged.space 1 points 1 month ago

um ... has anyone read Robert Bolano's "2666"

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