MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The mayor of the violent border metropolis Tijuana in northern Mexico, Montserrat Caballero, has moved into army barracks for her security after she acquired threats, the president stated on Tuesday.
Simply south of San Diego in California, Tijuana has change into considered one of Mexico’s most harmful cities as legal teams combat over drug trafficking routes to the US.
“She’s being protected, since about two weeks in the past,” Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stated throughout his common press convention. “We reached an settlement to assist defend her and can proceed to take action.”
Homicide charges fell final yr however the authorities of Lopez Obrador remains to be on observe to register a file whole of murders for any six-year administration.
Caballero, of Lopez Obrador’s Nationwide Regeneration Motion (MORENA), informed reporters in a video shared on social media on Monday that she had acquired extra threats after confiscating 1,700 firearms from legal teams and detaining 56 individuals.
“They’re indignant,” she stated. “And that is why I have been receiving threats.”
(Reporting by Stefanie Eschenbacher and Raul Cortes; Enhancing by Conor Humphries)