According to the information gathered by the local authorities, the armed subjects broke in around 4:30 p.m.

Several videos of the massacre have spread through the networks and in one of them, a witness claimed that the assailants carried numerous long weapons.

The local authorities of the Cortázar Security Department, who have not provided details of the attack and for the moment have not identified the perpetrators of the shooting, assure that the assailants destroyed the hotel store but not before storming with the monitors and cameras security.

“The Municipal Government regrets the events that occurred and will provide the corresponding accompaniment to the relatives of those affected, also reiterating the willingness to cooperate with the relevant authorities while waiting for those responsible to be brought to justice,” said the Cortázar municipal authority.

war scene

An impressive military operation was deployed in the area after the ambush, turning the resort into an image more typical of a war mission. A few minutes before, the enclave of enjoyment was full of tourists who, as can be seen in videos shared on social networks, ended up leaving the place, both adults and children, avoiding the corpses that lay around the hitherto peaceful pool. of the tourist complex.

“This is paradigmatic, several years ago tourists were untouchable, but the violence that is experienced in Mexico overwhelms everything, causing the administration to be saturated with large personal injuries,” confesses an important hotel businessman, who chooses to remain anonymous. , before the questions of this newspaper.

In this area of ​​central Mexico, in the state of Guanajuato, 3,513 homicides were recorded last year (a historic figure), eight massacres so far in 2023, 511 deaths between January and February, and 13 murdered this week alone. The wave of excessive violence is caused by the different drug cartels that cut up the territory or divide up the different drug trafficking routes (to the capital or to the United States). Tough battles to take control of these routes through which narcotics flow, giving rise to an open war that has the people of Mexico as spectators or as victims, as has occurred in this latest shooting (shooting) with, let us remember, a minor dead among the deceased.