On 9 March 2019, a mass shooting occurred in La Playa Men's Club, a

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Salamanca, Guanajuato Salamanca (Otomi: ''Xidoo'' "Place of Tepetate") is a city in the Mexican state of Guanajuato. Founded January 1, 1603 as 'Villa de Salamanca' by the Viceroy Gaspar de Zuniga and Acevedo, fifth Earl of Monterrey, who was originally from Salaman ...

, Mexico. Fifteen people were killed, and five to seven people were injured. Fourteen victims were later identified as

Jalisco New Generation Cartel The Jalisco New Generation Cartel ( es, Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación) or CJNG, formerly known as ''Los Mata Zetas'', is a semi-militarized Mexican criminal group based in Jalisco which is headed by Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes ("El Me ...

members. Witnesses described the attackers as a group of armed men who arrived in three vans. The

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later alleged that the attackers were part of the

Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel The Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel ( es, Cártel de Santa Rosa de Lima) or CSRL is a Mexican criminal organization from the state of Guanajuato. Founded in 2014, it was initially headed by "The Sledgehammer". They mainly earn their income from oil th ...

and announced that they had identified several individual attackers. Five days before the shooting took place, an operation was launched by the Mexican government to crack down on this cartel. Two days after the shooting took place, the Santa Rosa de Lima cartel posted on

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that an CJNG member known as Julio, aka "El Trompas," was the main perpetrator of the shootings.

Aftermath

On 24 March 2019, local Santa Rosa de Lima cartel leader Agustin Medina Soto was arrested. On 16 July 2019, it was revealed that all of the remaining resources of the Santa Rosa de Lima cartel, as well as the property of its leader José Antonio Yépez Ortiz (alias “El Marro”), were seized by Mexican authorities. Blocked accounts held by Yépez and people linked to him contain a total of nearly 35.5 million

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s (

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1.85 million).

References

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