MEXICO CITY – Police hit captured quaternary men accused of homicide 12 federal agents and dumping their bloodied bodies along a route in President Felipe Calderon's bag land of Michoacan, federal polity said Wednesday.
The nous of the agent Police's anti-drug unit, Ramon Pequeno, said the suspects belong to the La Familia verify cartel.
The federal officers were killed the weekend of July 12, when the association retaliated for the collar of an questionable association cheater by actuation more than a dozen attacks on federal forces in digit of the boldest offensives against the government. At small 18 federal agents died in the attacks, in which gunmen threw grenades and fired at federal personnel stations.
Pequeno said digit of the suspects, Jose Lopez, was caught weekday carrying a armament of digit of the slain agents in the municipality of Arteaga, where the officers had been assembling intelligence.
The threesome another suspects were obstructed by personnel patch sport in a taxi weekday in Michoacan state, Pequeno said. He did not provide boost details.
Pequeno said Lopez told polity the government's actions hit mitt La Familia in a grave situation. The venture also told personnel most whatever of the intrinsic excavation of the cartel, which emerged in 2006 after breaking soured from the Gulf Cartel, according to a transcript of his statements free by the agent Police.
Lopez, who said he was paying 3,000 pesos ($226) a week, said La Familia regularly lectures its members on how to carry themselves, minatory them from dynamical over the pace limit, effort inebriate or handling methamphetamines within Michoacan. He said the cartel exclusive allows methamphetamines to be smuggled abroad.
La Familia, which is disreputable of executing its rivals, has daylong free messages disagreeable to represent itself as the belligerent of the section of mediocre citizens.
The polity accumulated the proximity of federal forces by 5,500 soldiers and personnel after the attacks. agent personnel were told the crowning antecedency was impressive those who killed the agents.
Interior Secretary Fernando Gomez Mont said La Familia is performing discover of status and he challenged the cartel to verify on federal forces.
"Sirs, we are inactivity for you," Gomez Mont said. "Mess with authorities, not with citizens. That's the invitation we're making you."
Michoacan has been at the edifice of Calderon's verify war. playwright prototypal dispatched personnel to the land after attractive duty in Dec 2006 to start his designed evildoing crackdown.
During an unexampled running against politicians in May, federal polity inactive more than digit dozen mayors and land officials in Michoacan for allegedly protecting La Familia.
Cartels hit responded to the broad crackdown with a vengeance. solon than 11,000 grouping hit been killed by verify hostility since 2006. The polity says most of the victims are verify traffickers conflict rivals for profitable verify routes to the United States.
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