{"id":8945,"date":"2024-10-03T12:41:13","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T16:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/?p=8945"},"modified":"2024-10-03T12:41:13","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T16:41:13","slug":"gunmen-burst-into-a-mexican-drug-rehab-center-and-kill-4-men-and-wound-2-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/?p=8945","title":{"rendered":"Gunmen Burst into a Mexican Drug Rehab Center and Kill 4 Men and Wound 2 Others"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Assailants shot to death four men and wounded two others in an attack at a Mexican drug rehabilitation center, officials said Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Officials in the north-central state of Guanajuato said the killings occurred late Tuesday in the city of Salamanca. There was no immediate information on the conditions of those wounded in the attack.<\/p>\n

Mexico\u2019s privately run drug rehabilitation centers are often abusive, clandestine, unregulated and underfunded. They have been the targets of similar attacks in the past<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

The industrial and agricultural state of Guanajuato has for years been the scene of a bloody turf battle between the Jalisco New Generation Cartel and a local gang, the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel. Guanajuato has the highest number of homicides of any state in Mexico.<\/p>\n

Mexican drug gangs have killed suspected street-level dealers from rival gangs sheltering at such facilities in the past.<\/p>\n

In 2020, gunmen shot to death 27 people at rehab center<\/a><\/span> in another city in Guanajuato, Irapuato. In 2010, 19 people were killed in an attack on a rehab center in Chihuahua, a city in northern Mexico. More than a dozen other attacks on such facilities occurred in the decade between those massacres.<\/p>\n

The Mexican government spends relatively little money on rehabilitation, often making the unregistered centers the only option available for poor families.<\/p>\n

In addition, addicts and dealers who face attacks from rivals on the streets sometimes take refuge at the rehab clinics, making the clinics themselves targets for attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Assailants shot to death four men and wounded two others in an attack at a Mexican drug rehabilitation center, officials said Wednesday. Officials in the north-central state of Guanajuato said the killings occurred late Tuesday in the city of Salamanca. There was no immediate information on the conditions of those wounded in the attack. Mexico\u2019s…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":124,"featured_media":8946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/1\/1d\/Presidencia_Municipal%2C_Salamanca%2C_Gto.JPG","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-public-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/124"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8947,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8945\/revisions\/8947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}