Chilpancingo.—The municipal president of Taxco, Juan Andrés Vega Carranza (Morena), and her fatherJuan Vega Arredondo, director of the IMSS-Wellbeing hospitalthey lived the violence that hits that city firsthand.
The father was deprived of liberty on Saturday morning, when he was on his way to the hospital of which he is the director. The versions say that a armed group He got in their way, they took him down and took him away. His vehicle appeared the next morning, in the community of Acamixtlaabout eight kilometers from the municipal seat.
The next few hours were all hermeticism. The mayor even met on Saturday night with the senator of the Republic Felix Salgado Macedonio in a restaurant in the center of Taxco.
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“Closing Saturday among friends, with a cup of coffee and a pleasant conversation, is also a way to continue building agreements for our land. I was very pleased to receive Senator Félix Salgado Macedonio in Taxco, in a meeting of closeness, respect and coincidences for the good of our people,” Vega Carranza published on his social networks.
On Sunday the news broke: mayor’s father was missing. Nobody confirmed, until at 9 at night, more than 36 hours after the deprivation of liberty, the State Attorney General’s Office (FGE) confirmed it and published the search sheet.
The tension rose this Monday, when the news of the disappearance of the mayor he started running.
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No authority dared to confirm, but it was evident that something was happening: the city was almost under siege, there were checkpoints at both entrances, dozens of Army and National Guard soldiers were patrolling and a helicopter flew over Taxco for hours.
Until 2024, Juan Andrés Vega Carranza was almost unknown. He did not appear on the political board of the municipality of Taxco, much less on the stage of the state of Guerrero. Photo: Special
Minutes after 3 in the afternoon, Omar García Harfuchhead of the Ministry of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC), reported on social media that the mayor and his father had been located and were safe.
He stated that a operational federal, which involved the deployment of ground personnel, helicopter support, and in which elements of the Army, the Navy, the Attorney General’s Office, the National Guard, SSPC, authorities of Guerrero and the State of Mexico participated.
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Without giving further details, he stated that the men were located by personnel from the Secretariat of Security of the State of Mexico, and emphasized that operations will continue to arrest those responsible.
The governor of Guerrero, Evelyn Salgadostated that the location of the mayor and his father “is the product of effective coordination between authorities of the three levels of government.”
Sources consulted indicated that more than 500 uniformed and state police participated in the deployment, which extended to the municipality of Tetipacon the border with the State of Mexico.
The sources detailed that in the early hours of this Monday, the mayor went to a place to negotiate with alleged members of La Michoacan Familywho had kidnapped his father; In that event he was also deprived of his liberty and taken to an unknown destination.
The mayor had supposedly come accompanied by an escort, who did not intervene.
Unofficial versions indicated that the mayor was summoned in the Casahuate neighborhood, in the upper part of Taxco, which is one of the exits to the municipalities of Tetipac and Pilcaya.
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According to official reports, that is where the lair of the leader of La Familia Michoacana in Taxco, Roberto Sagal, alias Pelón, is located.
This Monday, elements of federal and state corporations placed checkpoints at the entrances to the municipality, as part of the search operation. Photo: Special
Unofficially, it has been reported that the deprivation of liberty of the mayor’s father was due to pressure from La Familia Michoacana, after an operation was carried out in recent weeks to seize merchandise, following a search in warehouses of products they control, such as beer.
On March 26, it was reported assurance in the municipality of Taxco of four warehouses and the arrest of seven alleged members of said criminal group, dedicated to the extortion.
On April 8, a man known as El Goku was arrested, accused of selling drugs.
For more than a decade, La Familia Michoacana has maintained tight control in Taxco: it controls almost everything, imposes the distribution of basic basket products, and has generalized extortion.
During the previous municipal government, headed by Mario Figueroa Mundo, it was documented that the Municipal Police worked for them. Several were even arrested for forced disappearance and criminal ties.
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According to residents of Taxco, who requested anonymity for security reasons, Dr. Juan Vega Arredondo, father of the mayor, until before his deprivation of liberty maintained a clear influence in the government.
“The father tries to keep a low profile, but the truth is that, with his son, he decides and undoes at his convenience,” said a resident.
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