Guatemala Says It Thwarted an Attack by "Heavily Armed Individuals" on the Border with Honduras
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San José Las Lágrimas (Guatemala), 26 May (EFE).- The Guatemalan Army reinforced its presence on the border with Honduras this Tuesday after an incursion of armed men from the neighboring country was repelled, leaving a dead peasant and a dozen homes destroyed, in a fact that has been linked to drug trafficking groups.The event was recorded in the hamlet San José Las Lágrimas, a rural area of the municipality of Esquipulas of the department of C…
By Rocío Muñoz-Ledo and Merlin Delcid, CNN en Español. The Guatemalan Army reported that it thwarted a suspected armed attack in the border region with Honduras after detecting the entry of vehicles carrying “heavily armed individuals” who, according to the institution, are linked to organized crime. In a statement, the Army said that military personnel deployed in the Esquipulas area, in the department of Chiquimula, identified the irregular en…
Guatemalan authorities confirmed new actions following the violent armed confrontation at the San José Las Lágrimas estate in Esquipulas, Chiquimula, a border area between Guatemala and Honduras, where a convoy of armed men reportedly entered from Honduran territory. According to official information, the Guatemalan Army detected the entry of at least nine off-road vehicles that were circulating through unauthorized steps in the border area. Acc…
Guatemalan security forces increased patrols on the border with Honduras following the massacre of police officers in that country on Thursday, during an operation against a Honduran drug trafficking network linked to Mexico’s powerful Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG). That same Thursday, an armed squad killed 19 people in another [...] The post Guatemalan military repel armed group that raided from Honduras appeared first on Diario Digita…
Monday's confrontation took place in the border town of Esquipulas (eastern Central American country).
Last week, five members of the Police Directorate Anti Maras and Gangs Against Organized Crime (Dipampco) died in an operation in the area of Corinth, Omoa Cortés, where two members of an alleged criminal gang also lost their lives. Guatemala’s Defense entrance reported on the incursion of armed men into the border with Honduras was first published in Proceso Digital.
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