Murder of Colombian artists won’t affect bilateral relationship, Sheinbaum says: Tuesday’s mañanera recapped

Violence successful the Mexico City metropolitan country reared its caput astatine President Claudia Sheinbaum’s Tuesday mañanera.

The president spoke astir 2 abstracted execution cases, 1 successful which 2 Colombian nationals were killed and different successful which a young pupil was stabbed to death.

Sheinbaum: Murder of Colombians ‘an unfortunate episode,’ but it won’t impact Mexico-Colombia relationship

Sheinbaum noted that the bodies of 2 Colombian artists — a vocalist known arsenic B King and a DJ who performed nether the sanction Regio Clown — were recovered “some clip after” the Mexico City Attorney General’s Office began a hunt for the 2 men and issued “all the alerts” to assistance successful their location.

The bodies of Bayron Sánchez (B King) and Jorge Luis Herrera (Regio Clown) were recovered successful a México authorities municipality southeast of cardinal Mexico City past Wednesday, a time aft they went missing successful Mexico City, but they weren’t officially identified until Monday.

Reports from Mexican quality outlets person linked the performers’ deaths with La Familia Michoacana, 1 of six Mexican cartels that are designated arsenic overseas violent organizations by the United States government.

Sánchez is the nephew of the Colombian cartel person Camilo Torres, alias “Fritanga,” according to media reports cited by the Reuters quality agency.

Sheinbaum said that she would permission it to the Mexico City Attorney General’s Office and her information furniture to supply much accusation astir the case, but she noted that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is successful interaction with the authorities of Colombia.

She described the execution of the 2 Colombians arsenic “an unfortunate episode,” but said determination was nary crushed it would impact the narration betwixt Mexico and Colombia.

Before the find of the bodies was made nationalist connected Monday, Colombian President Gustavo Petro requested assistance from Sheinbaum successful the hunt for the 2 men.

“I inquire the President of the United Mexican States, Claudia Sheinbaum, my person and comrade successful conflict since M19 [sic], and the full diplomatic corps of Colombia successful Mexico, to guarantee that the vocalist Bayron Sánchez and his chap set subordinate Jorge Herrera look alive,” Petro posted connected X connected Sunday, 4 days aft the bodies of the men were found.

M-19 was an municipality guerrilla radical progressive successful Colombia successful the 1970s and 1980s, earlier it transitioned into a governmental party. Petro has asserted that Sheinbaum was a subordinate of M-19, a assertion she rejected — including with a hearty laughter — connected Tuesday.

“I’m not going to get into a statement with President Petro,” she added.

Sheinbaum laments execution astatine her alma mater 

Sheinbaum besides commented connected an onslaught connected Monday astatine the confederate field of the College of Science and Humanities (CCH Sur), a precocious school-level acquisition institute tally by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) successful Mexico City.

A 19-year-old pupil killed a 16-year-old pupil and injured a 65-year-old assemblage idiosyncratic successful the stabbing attack. The attacker, portion attempting to escape, jumped disconnected a gathering astatine the school, fracturing some his legs. He was taken to hospital, wherever helium was placed successful the custody of police.

On Monday, a pupil was murdered astatine the College of Science and Humanities (CCH Sur), a precocious school-level acquisition institute tally by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) successful Mexico City. (Rogelio Morales/Cuartoscuro)

Sheinbaum described the onslaught arsenic a “very painful” incident, earlier noting that she is simply a postgraduate of CCH Sur, a schoolhouse she entered arsenic a 15-year-old successful 1977.

She said that her authorities was waiting for the probe into the deadly onslaught to conclude.

“I asked the interior curate to attack the household [of the pupil who was killed],” Sheinbaum said.

A newsman told the president that CCH Sur students had antecedently reported different students taking bladed weapons into the school, but the manager of the acquisition institute allegedly didn’t instrumentality immoderate enactment successful response.

Sheinbaum said that her authorities is consenting to assistance the CCH Sur students and the schoolhouse itself successful immoderate mode it can.

By Mexico News Daily main unit writer Peter Davies ([email protected])