{"id":469318,"date":"2025-05-28T11:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T15:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/six-soldiers-die-from-a-drug-cartels-explosive-mine-in-western-mexico\/"},"modified":"2025-05-28T11:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T15:10:09","slug":"six-soldiers-die-from-a-drug-cartels-explosive-mine-in-western-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/dominican-news\/six-soldiers-die-from-a-drug-cartels-explosive-mine-in-western-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Six soldiers die from a drug cartel’s explosive mine in western Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Morelia (Mexico).-<\/strong> Six Mexican Army soldiers died and two more were injured when an antipersonnel mine exploded as the armored tactical vehicle they were patrolling in passed over it, in a border area of the states of Michoac\u00e1n and Jalisco, in the west of the country.<\/p>\n\n\nA source from the XXI Military Zone (headquartered in Morelia, capital of Michoac\u00e1n), confirmed to EFE that it was the explosion of a homemade landmine, which detonated on a dirt road in the town of El Santuario, in the Michoac\u00e1n municipality of Los Reyes, bordering Jalisco.\n\n\n

Read more: They assassinate a mayoral candidate for Texistepec, Mexico<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The military personnel were in a SandCat-type armored tactical vehicle and belonged to the Special Reaction and Intervention Force (FERI) – a unit assigned to the National Guard – as well as the Emergency Response Group (GRE) of the Army.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The magnitude of the explosion destroyed the military vehicle, so two FERI agents and four GRE agents died immediately, while two more from the latter unit were seriously injured.<\/p>\n\n\nInformation from the XXI Military Zone specified that the two deceased FERI elements are Second Sub-Inspector Jovany Rosales Rosales and Sub-Agent Jorge Alberto Cruz Vel\u00e1zquez. The identity of the remaining four dead and the two injured has been reserved by the military authorities, although it was revealed that among them is an officer and five troop elements.\n\nAccording to the Mexican Army, the Attorney General’s Office of the State of Jalisco took charge of the investigations into the explosion, although a special military group is searching for more explosive devices in the area.\n\n\n

The Mexican Army <\/a>has identified in this region of the country a strong fight between two drug trafficking organizations, self-proclaimed as the Los Reyes Cartel – based in the Michoac\u00e1n municipality of Los Reyes – and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG).<\/p>\n\n\nInformation from the intelligence areas of the Government of the State of Michoac\u00e1n specifies that both drug cartels have recruited former Colombian military personnel, experts in explosives, to carry out war tactics in this area of Michoac\u00e1n and Jalisco.\n\nThe C\u00e1rtel de Los Reyes is headed by Alfonso Fern\u00e1ndez Magall\u00f3n \u201cPoncho La Quiring\u00fca\u201d and Luis Enrique Barrag\u00e1n Ch\u00e1vez \u201cEl G\u00fcicho\u201d, while the CJNG is led by the Michoac\u00e1n drug trafficker, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes \u201cEl Mencho\u201d, one of the most wanted criminals by Mexico and the United States.\n\n\n

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Morelia (Mexico).- Six Mexican Army soldiers died and two more were injured when an antipersonnel mine exploded as the armored tactical vehicle they were patrolling in passed over it, in a border area of the states of Michoac\u00e1n and Jalisco, in the west of the country. A source from the XXI Military Zone (headquartered in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":469319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[40216],"tags":[40761,40876,40822,18822],"class_list":["post-469318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dominican-news","tag-army","tag-mexican","tag-military","tag-narco"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-1Y5E","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/fe83501a88f45462dbe20f9377eec4536241456aw.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["Dominican News"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/fe83501a88f45462dbe20f9377eec4536241456aw.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}