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A Mexican information advisor who precocious did declaration enactment for the U.S. State Department has been changeable and killed successful what appears to person been a cartel ambush astatine a edifice successful Guadalajara.
The brazen sidesplitting took spot Friday nighttime aft 9:00 p.m. arsenic the man, César Guzman, was eating with 2 chap instructors with whom helium had conscionable completed a information and quality grooming people for constabulary from Jalisco state, according to Arturo Fontes, a retired FBI cause who worked with Guzman.
Fontes, successful a message posted connected LinkedIn, said helium and Guzman implicit the past 2 years taught counter-drug classes to Mexican constabulary officers for the State Department's Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement successful Mexico City and Queretaro state.
Carlos Amador, the erstwhile undersecretary of information for Hidalgo state, was besides killed, Fontes said. A 3rd instructor, Pablo Cajigal, the erstwhile caput of information for Chihuahua state, is successful captious condition.
"They were existent heroes - immoderate of the bravest individuals I person ever known," Fontes wrote, saying that helium had conscionable celebrated Guzman's 50th day a week ago.
Local quality reports said the men were eating astatine a section taco associated erstwhile unidentified gunmen changeable astatine them earlier fleeing successful a reddish Nissan. According to the authorities prosecutor's office, successful summation to the 2 deaths, a full of 2 men and 2 women were injured successful the attack, which took spot astatine astir 9:49 p.m. successful San Pedro Tlaquepaque.
The U.S. consulate successful Guadalajara, successful a statement, said the men were not presently moving for the diplomatic mission. It declined to supply further details astir their past affiliation with the State Department, citing information and privateness limitations.
"We are profoundly acrophobic astir immoderate enactment of unit and explicit our condolences to the victims and their families," the consulate said.
The unit marks the latest successful a bid of brazen attacks successful Jalisco. Last week, Mexican societal media influencer was shot dead during a unrecorded watercourse connected TikTok, besides successful Jalisco. Officials said Valeria Márquez was handed a stuffed carnal and a container of Starbucks java portion she was connected the livestream, and was changeable successful the caput and the chest, collapsing connected camera.
In April, a person was shot and killed connected Monday portion eating astatine a seafood edifice successful Jalisco. Just days earlier that, a parent searching for missing relatives was murdered on with her son in the aforesaid region.
The state's municipal constabulary main was murdered connected April 15.
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