Gunmen Kill 19 at Mexican Cockfighting Party

[Judi Lynn]

MARCH 30, 2022

BY OSCAR ZAMBRANO

This headline, and many others like it indicate Mexico will remain in drug cartel hell until it decides it’s essential to pay living wages across the entire country — an impossible change because Big Capital has continued to absolutely oppose that. The evil of non-living wages is global, of course.

So long as millions and millions of working Mexicans continue to live under the tyranny of seven to ten dollars a day, which is Mexico’s “legal” minimum wage, a number of them will keep on taking a chance on crime.

Working people in Mexico have families to feed but often can’t do that fully. We’re talking about the basic necessities of food, medicine, housing, and school for their kids. But they all have smart phones or know someone who does, so they’re well aware they’re getting screwed and they’re angry.

Besides more money — never mind that it’s blood money — a life of crime for some people may also promise an imagined payback against the unfair and racist system they’ve known first hand. That said, I do not defend making immoral choices.

More:
https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/03/30/gunmen-kill-19-at-mexican-cockfighting-party/

[Judi Lynn]

1. Guardian: Massacre at cockfight in Mexico leaves 20 dead

Gunmen with assault rifles burst into event in western state of Michoacán long plagued by violence between drug cartels

Police guard the place where 19 people were murdered, in the community of La Tinaja, in the municipality of Zinapécuaro, state of Michoacán, Mexico.

Lillian Perlmutter in Mexico City
Mon 28 Mar 2022 14.21 EDT
First published on Mon 28 Mar 2022 10.07 EDT

Mexican authorities have confirmed that 20 people were killed when a group of gunmen stormed a cockfight, in a small town in the western state of Michoacán.

Officials and witnesses described a choreographed massacre in which assailants in military uniforms arrived just after 10.30pm on Sunday night and opened fire with assault rifles at the crowds of primarily middle-aged men.

Two small trucks, one of them branded with the logo for Sabritas, a potato chip company, were used to block the highway leading to the cockfighting arena.


Massacre at cockfight in Mexico leaves 20 dead
Gunmen with assault rifles burst into event in western state of Michoacán long plagued by violence between drug cartels

Police guard the place where 19 people were murdered, in the community of La Tinaja, in the municipality of Zinapécuaro, state of Michoacán, Mexico.
Police guard the place where 19 people were murdered, in the community of La Tinaja, in the municipality of Zinapécuaro, state of Michoacán, Mexico. Photograph: Ivan Villanueva/EPA
Lillian Perlmutter in Mexico City
Mon 28 Mar 2022 14.21 EDT
First published on Mon 28 Mar 2022 10.07 EDT
Mexican authorities have confirmed that 20 people were killed when a group of gunmen stormed a cockfight, in a small town in the western state of Michoacán.

Officials and witnesses described a choreographed massacre in which assailants in military uniforms arrived just after 10.30pm on Sunday night and opened fire with assault rifles at the crowds of primarily middle-aged men.

Two small trucks, one of them branded with the logo for Sabritas, a potato chip company, were used to block the highway leading to the cockfighting arena.

Video filmed by witnesses nearby captured the sound of machine gun fire, which could be heard several miles away.

More:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/28/mexico-cockfight-shooting-19-dead-michoacan