A police truck in Mexico. File photoMEXICO CITY, Aug 13The Mexican federal government will deploy additional National Guard and Attorney General forces to Baja California state on the border with the United States, where New Generation Jalisco operatives have rioted over the arrest of their accomplices. Mexico … In coordination with the National Guard and the Attorney General's Office, the presence and patrols of state security forces have been increased in all streets and neighborhoods of education (Tijuana — ed.) to prevent disruption of order in the state,» the Ministry of Security and Citizens Protection said in a statement. Mexico following a meeting of the national security cabinet. Since Friday, law enforcement agencies have recorded 24 crimes in Baja California, including arson of personal and public transport and road closures. During the riots, the authorities managed to detain 17 people who provoked and participated in the violence, one person was injured.Amid the meetings of law enforcement agencies, the governor of Baja California, on social networks, the message of the Jalisco New Generation cartel is circulating, which announced a curfew in Tijuana until Monday , does not recommend residents to leave their homes and assures that it will continue street violence until late at night from Sunday to Monday. The stated goal of the violence is to free the detained cartel members.Media: in Mexico, bandits killed four employees of the radio station Riots with arson of cars, buses and small chain stores began in the suburbs of Guadalajara on Wednesday night after the army's special operation against the leaders of the Jalisco New Generation. The next day, they spread to the state of Guanajuato, and on Friday began in the cities of Baja California — Tijuana, Mexicali, Rosarito, Ensenada and Tecate. According to the Ministry of Defense, there were no cartel leaders among the detainees this week — two bosses, whose meeting was covered by special forces, managed to escape. «The New Generation of the Jalisco Cartel» — an armed organization that controls the regional market and drug trafficking in the states of Jalisco, Nayarit and Colima. They compete with the Sinaloa group for influence in other territories and share leadership with them in the number of drug laboratories. The US Drug Enforcement Administration is offering $10 million as a reward for helping to capture the leader of the organization, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes. In 2019, the arrest of Ovidio Guzmán, the son of convicted drug lord Joaquín Loera, led to violent street fighting in Culiacan, Sinaloa. After a seven-hour confrontation, the cartel militants forced the federal authorities to stop the special operation and release Ovidio Guzmán.
