Unsafety Streets in Sonora

Last month, some of the local newspapers around the state of Sonora published some notes about the unfortunate events that had disturbed the calm of the citizens. There were several explosive artifacts (granades) that were thrown by unknown persons to four different cities in our state, Oregon, Navojoa, Hermosillo, and Cananea.

The first attacks were registered in Obregon. Five fragmentation granades were thrown against government buildings. Fortunately there were no injured people registrated.

After these attacks to the city of Obregon, more attacks resulted in other cities. In Navojoa there were two fragmentation granades that exploded in a restaurant and in a gas station. In the capital, Hermosillo, there were two granades thrown to the principal entrance of the PGJE, but only one exploded. In Cananea, there were three explosives thrown, two against banks and one against a gas station, but only one of the three granades exploded.

It is believed that the responsibles for these attacks chosed that locations because of the amount of people that attend there. The more damage they cause, the more panic they would produce among the people. It is also said that this attacks are in response to the new governor, Guillermo Padres, because of the “war” that he has started against drug trafficking.

It is not fair that innocent citizens suffer the consequences of the acts of revenge of the drug dealers. I am not against what the new governor says and imposes refering to the dug trafficking subject, but it is not correct to recall all of his ideas for punishing this crime in public because this sort of things could happen. Criminals take revenge against innocent people to demonstrate that they are more powerful and willing to do whatever it takes in order to continue with their trafficking. It is worth saying that we should all take some precautions, more than usual. There is now no safe place anywhere. TAKE CARE AND BE CAREFUL!