Overview

• About 400 UPOEG community police from roughly 85 Ayutla localities launched patrols and checkpoints, sweeping Lagunillas, El Refugio and Colotepec in search of suspects.
• Two men and a woman were detained during the operations and turned over to the Ministerio Público, with the woman accused locally of acting as a lookout and selling drugs.
• Community leaders blame the criminal group Los Ardillos for the massacre and cite Benito Sánchez Millán, alias “El Oso,” as a suspected figure linked to the attack.
• The Guerrero government scheduled a dialogue session in the Casa de los Pueblos with municipal council coordinator Elizabeth Calixto Leyva and UPOEG, and says Sedena, the National Guard and state police have reinforced their presence.
• Assemblies in several villages are organizing or expanding local community police, and residents warn they may take their demands to Chilpancingo if authorities show no progress.