translated from Spanish: Second day of blockades and burning of cars in Guanajuato

for the second consecutive day, various roads in Guanajuato were blocked with burned vehicles, due to the Navy and the police Federal and State maintain an operating in the community Santa Rosa de Lima, to give with José Antonio Yépez, “the hammer”, identified by authorities as the leader of a criminal group in the State.
According to reports in the newspaper Reforma, the roads affected Tuesday are Celaya-Juventino Rosas; Celaya-Comonfort; Celaya-San Miguel de Allende and access to Santa Rosa of Lima, without having so far are report of injured people.
The newspaper explained that the blockades were carried out by armed persons, who were taking vehicles, crossed them in the roads and torched them to distract the authorities of operating in the area, where they seek to Yepez, alleged leader of the Cartel Santa Rosa de Lima.
The blockades were once the Mayor of Villagrán, Guanajuato, Juan Lara Mendoza, said in a press conference that is not linked to any criminal organization, and that the resistance of the inhabitants of Santa Rosa de Lima to the operating It is due to mistrust in the security forces.
Reform reported that roads affected by the blockades traffic was suspended from 12:00 hours, and in the area remains operative.
The operation that triggered the blockades Monday, State and federal police secured various weapons, 12 stolen vehicles and rescued 6 people who had been deprived of their freedom in a RAID in Santa Rosa, Villagrán, Guanajuato.
The middle zone reported that two of the rescued people are policemen in active.
About this operation, Sophia Huett, commissioned in the field of security of the State, explained in a press conference that the operation was repulsed by the inhabitants of the community of Santa Rosa, which he described as a “Center of criminal activity”, where It operates the criminal group headed by “the sledgehammer”, mainly dedicated to the extraction and theft of hydrocarbon.
The Governor of the State, Diego Sinhue, reported that the operation to search for José Antonio Yepez continues on course.
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Original source in Spanish