Milton Morales Figueroa reportedly killed by gunmen while enjoying a family day out

Mexico City’s head of intelligence and police operations has been gunned down in an apparent drug cartel hit.

Milton Morales Figueroa, 40, is reported to have died instantly in a hail of bullets in the town of Coacalco, just north of the Mexican capital, on a family day out on Sunday.

He was hit at least twice in the head when gunmen jumped out of two SUVs with darkened windows which had suddenly pulled up as the police commander and relatives stopped at a small supermarket in a residential street. Two other people were reportedly injured. One is thought to have been a bodyguard and the other a family member.

  • @positiveWHAT
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    -627 months ago

    Isn’t it way past time they got the Iraq treatment?

    • @remotelove@lemmy.ca
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      667 months ago

      Like, we go bomb the shit out of them and keep the country in limbo long enough for the power vacuum to be filled with a couple of larger terrorist groups?

      • mad_asshatter
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        167 months ago

        Since we’ve got our own shit together so well!

      • @positiveWHAT
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        -77 months ago

        Well, when you put it like that. Maybe more of a Kosovo UN treatment?

          • @positiveWHAT
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            27 months ago

            I mean sending in some UN troops to cleanse the country of the cartels. Have you seen the type of violence they do?

              • @positiveWHAT
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                17 months ago

                It’s also laughable to think the USA could do it when they can’t even keep their own police up to standards.

    • @ShittyBeatlesFCPres
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      247 months ago

      What’s the “Iraq treatment”? The U.S. spending a trillion dollars to create enough instability for something like ISIS to emerge?

    • Flying Squid
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      147 months ago

      J.D.? Shouldn’t you be on the campaign trail, buddy?