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Posted on 01/26/2026 8:03:57 AM PST by BenLurkin
At least 11 people were killed and another dozen injured when gunmen opened fire on locals who had gathered at a football pitch in the city of Salamanca in central Mexico on Sunday.
Witnesses said armed men arrived at the grounds in several vehicles and shot at those gathered there seemingly indiscriminately.
Many families had stayed behind to socialise after a match between local clubs. At least one woman and one child were among those killed.
The motive behind the shooting is not yet clear. Guanajuato, the state in which Salamanca is located, registered the highest number of murders in the whole of Mexico last year.
Neighbours reported hearing at least 100 shots ring out as the gunmen opened fire at the Cabañas pitch in the Loma de Flores neighbourhood.
Local and federal security forces are now investigating the deadly shooting.
It came just a day after several violent incidents in the city, in which a total of five men were killed and another was abducted.
Guanajuato has seen a spike in violence committed by a number of gangs that engage in the theft of oil and fuel, as well as other criminal activities such as drug trafficking and extortion.
Gang members frequently hold up tanker trucks carrying oil and tap oil pipelines belonging to state-run oil company Pemex.
Salamanca, which is home to a major Pemex refinery, has been particularly subject to violent gang-related attacks.
Analysts say that the rivalry between the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) and the Cartel de Santa Rosa de Lima (CSRL) is behind many of the most brutal incidents.
Their criminal activities are not confined to Mexico, with both the smuggling of stolen fuel and illicit drugs spreading violence into the United States.
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And they aren’t making a big deal about it like the antifa fascists are in Minniedishu.
A couple we are friends with spent part of the winter in Florida, then decided to take a side trip into Mexico for a week. Crappy service, crappy attitudes by the locals, plus their credit card was scammed to the tune of $500.00. Didn’t find out about that until they got back to Florida. They got it back, but I told my wife they were stupid for going there in the first place. They’re lucky they weren’t kidnapped, or worse.
Was it Tuco or Lalo?
Keep it that side of the border, not this side.
Happens in the streets or nightclubs here, same difference.
I was in Guanajuato about 15 years ago and I had a great time. Would not go back to Mexico today. Too bad.
“Business as usual in Mexico?
Yup.”
And business as usual here, if the DemocRats win the midterms. Thanks, Joe Biden!
That’s the bitter truth.
Guns are illegal in mexico! How do they get guns? Lets make guns illegal in the US! Then only the criminals will have them. Great plan from the dem/libs/communists.
Yellow or red card?
What do all the expats have to say though?....probaby.... “ 11 people get shot and killed after football games all the time”....
Mexico seeking to be what? The next Haiti? Somalia? Nigeria?
Mexico is probably too corrupt and dependent to dig themselves out at this point.
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