Overview

• The mobilization follows the Aug. 17 ambush in El Cortijo that left 12 or 13 UPOEG community police dead and several injured, according to local reports.
• Roughly 400 UPOEG members swept Lagunillas, El Refugio, and Colotepec after saying there had been no official investigative progress eight days on.
• Spokespeople said two men suspected of the ambush and a woman accused of lookout and drug sales were detained and turned over to the Ministerio Público in Ayutla.
• Community assemblies were announced in the searched villages to establish local policing units under the UPOEG structure.
• Local accounts blame the criminal group Los Ardillos and identify Benito Sánchez Millán, “El Oso,” as a figure allegedly wounded in the clash, with National Guard personnel previously held in Tlayolapa said to have been attempting to arrest him.