Gulf Cartel Appears To Be Expanding in Guatemala

Gulf Cartel Expanding Operations in Guatemala?
In Guatemala City, Guatemala .- The president of Guatemala, Alvaro Colom, said the Mexican Gulf Cartel exercises control in various regions of the country and concluded, following the killing of 17 suspected drug traffickers on Sunday, which now joins the western department Huehuetenango, on the border with Mexico.

"They want to monopolize the whole country," Colom told reporters before, while this group blamed the action on Sunday and warned that it will "take time" to recover the territories controlled by this organization.

• Jose Amilcar Velasquez, attorney general of Guatemala, for its part reported that the Attorney General's Office (PGR) of Mexico offered support research to clarify what happened.
• Velasquez said the Guatemalan prosecutor's office is investigating four areas, including the disputed territory between the Guatemalan and Mexican groups.
• Colom did a recount of the areas of Guatemala that have strong presence of drug traffickers and warned "They want everything, but where their strengths is in the north of Alta Verapaz, in Ixcán (Quiché-north), in Sayaxché (Peten-North) and it seems that they are also in Izabal (Caribbean), "he said.

Regarding Huehuetenango, where the massacre occurred on Sunday, the president said it was believed that drug traffickers had a small resence, but now there are indications that operate "in the entire region."

The dignitary said that the army, mobilized to the area after the events of Sunday, will remain in place "until they regain" the territory. He Said that another critical point is the region of Ixcán, because it is used for landing planes with drugs, so it announced efforts to strengthen surveillance in place.

He recalled that currently has no radar to detect aircraft

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