Terrorism in Mexico

Terrorism in Mexico is the phenomenon of organized violence against civilians. It appeared in the 1960s, committed by communist guerrillas.[3] Later attacks were by other political movements.[4]

Terrorism
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Far-left groups
Soldiers of the Mexican Army in the streets
TDR-EP guerrillas during a revolutionary meeting
Main articles: Dirty War (Mexico) and Chiapas conflict

From the late 1960s to the 1980s guerrilla movements operated in the country. The worst attacks were the assault of the Madera Cuartel and Tlatelolco Massacre, the starting point for several guerrilla movements, specially in the states of Guerrero and Ciudad de Mexico. Groups included Partido de los Pobres, People's Guerrilla Group, or Liga Comunista 23 de Septiembre. These groups were demolished, amid allegations of extrajudicial executions or forced disappearances.[5][6]

Eventually in the 1990s the guerrilla activity it would focus in states of Guerrero , Oaxaca (with bastions of the Ejercito Popular Revolucionario, Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo Insurgente and Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias del Pueblo, Tendencia Democrática Revolucionaria-Ejército del Pueblo, these last splits of the EPR)[7] and Chiapas this one gaining relevance with the Ejercito Zapatista De Liberacion Nacional

Narcoterrorism
Main article: Mexican Drug War

In 2012 United States politician Sue Myrick claimed that mounting evidence of Hezbollah presence in Mexico was ignored by the Department of Homeland Security.[8][9] These groups became more visible by 2010, when the Tucson Police Department reported International Terrorism Situational Awareness for Hezbollah in Mexico, noting the arrest of Jameel Nasar in Tijuana. Nasar had tried to form a Hezbollah network in Mexico and South America. A report from the US House Homeland Security Committee Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations and Management tied Middle East terror organizations with Mexican drug cartels.[10][11]

Currently the violence related with the drug war represents the conflict of greatest generation of violence in the country, causing some attacks that can be branded as narco-terrorism like 2008 Morelia grenade attacks, 2009 Guanajuato and Hidalgo shootings and the 2011 Monterrey casino attack or the recently Minatitlán shooting.[12]

Anarchist groups

Anarchist groups in México have been on the rise since the beginning of the 2000s, with a large number of attacks to banks, religious centers and government buildings, especially intensifying during the government of Enrique Peña Nieto.[13][14] Groups like Células Autónomas de Revolución Inmediata-Praxedis G. Guerrero, Célula Insurreccional Mariano Sanchez Añón, Brigada Informal Bruno Filippi, Individualistas Tendiendo a lo Salvaje, and others. The most notorious incident with this group was the Monterrey Tech bombing. One of the first important attacks the Brigada de Eco saboteadorxs por la Venganza Nunca Olvidada claimed a blast in a Bancomer branch in the municipality of Coacalco, that do not leave injured[15][16]

In 2017 the CISEN (the mexican civil intelligence institution at the service of the government of Mexico) said that these "direct violent actions" came from groups such as the Earth Liberation Front (52 actions), the Animal Liberation Front (44), Celulas Autónomas de Revolución Inmediata-Práxedis Guerrero (32), Federazione Anarchia Informale (30) and the Conspiracy of Fire Cells (12). In Mexico City, the Cisen documented the existence of the Campamento Revolución,Bloque Anarko Sur (responsible for assaulting a group of journalists during a demonstration in 2011)[17], the Anarko Norte Bloc, the Black Anarchist Bloc, the Chanti Ollín House in Motion, the Magonista Autonomous Collective.[18], the Anarchist Student Coordinator, Cruz Negra Anarchist and the Frente Oriente Okupa Che.[19][20][21]

gollark: Unlikely.
gollark: #gollarkforsupremeeternaldictator
gollark: You say this too often for me to take seriously.
gollark: All times exist and are considered temporal.
gollark: Are they having some sort of technical issue somehow known to you in advance but which they can't fix?

See also

References
  1. National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses s to Terrorism (2016). "Global Terrorism Database". www.start.umd.edu. Retrieved 2019-03-17. See Global Terrorism Database (globalterrorismdb_0616dist.xlsx).
  2. National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism. (2016). Global Terrorism Database (gtd1993_0616dist.xlsx). Retrieved from University of Maryland
  3. "Breve cronología de los principales movimientos sociales ocurridos en México". Lucha de Clases.org. Retrieved 2018-08-08.
  4. "Hillary Clinton: Iran 'Exports Terrorism' to Mexicowork=CNN". Retrieved 2018-08-08.
  5. Guzmán, Jorge Luis Sierra (2003). El enemigo interno: contrainsurgencia y fuerzas armadas en México (in Spanish). Plaza y Valdes. ISBN 9789707221963.
  6. Introducción a la historia de la guerrilla en México. 1943-1983. by Juan Fernando Reyes Peláez (Paperback) (in Spanish). Juan Fernando Reyes Peláez. February 26, 2008.
  7. "Jacobo Silva: el nacimiento del ERPI". Contralinea. Retrieved 2019-05-06.
  8. "Lawmaker urges feds to monitor Hezbollah in Mexico". Fox News. 2012-10-29. Retrieved 2012-10-29.
  9. "¿Hezbollah en México? (In Spanish)". El Universal. Retrieved 2020-01-26.
  10. "Hezbolá en México (In Spanish)". El Financiero. Retrieved 2020-01-26.
  11. "¿Narcoterrorismo? (In Spanish)". El Universal. Retrieved 2020-01-26.
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  13. "La directriz anarquista contra "objetivos humanos"". Grupo Milenio. Retrieved 2019-07-03.
  14. "Lo que los anarquistas quieren, en sus palabras... (In Spanish)". Milenio. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
  15. "Atentado explosivo contra sucursal de Banamex, México". La Haine Liberación Total. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  16. "Individualidades Tendiendo a lo Salvaje, detrás de los ataques en el Tec". Expansión. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  17. "Documentan agresiones contra periodistas; "volverán a ser abatidos", aseguran anarquistas (In Spanish)". Homozapping. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
  18. ""¿Anarquistas en Guerrero?" (In Spanish)". Arsenal Diario Digital. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
  19. "Células anarquistas al acecho (In Spanish)". MSN Noticias. Retrieved 2019-07-03.
  20. "5 grupos anarquistas violentos que tienen presencia en el Edomex (In Spanish)". Vanguardia. Retrieved 2019-07-03.
  21. https://www.univision.com/noticias/politica/un-grupo-anarquista-escribe-la-palabra-resistir-sobre-un-campo-de-golf-propiedad-de-trump
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