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Guatemalan soldiers exchanged shots with the passengers of a car when it approached the place where President Alejandro Giammattei’s entourage was, this Saturday. According to the army spokesman, the president was far from the scene of the shooting and is unharmed.
A local Guatemalan radio station reported this Saturday that President Alejandro Giammattei was unharmed in a shooting that was supposedly aimed at his entourage, during his visit to a village in the northwestern department of Huehuetenango.
“There were shots fired at the presidential caravan in the village of La Laguna de Jacaltenango, in Huehuetenango,” said the radio station Sonora Es la Noticia, adding that “there are wounded, but President Alejandro Giammattei is uninjured and safe.”
Information that was later confirmed by the government press agency, on its Twitter account: “The Government of Guatemala informs the population and the international community that President @DrGiammattei is safe and unharmed.”
“Heavily Armed Men”
Military sources gave more details and told journalists that there was an operation during the president’s visit. A vehicle with heavily armed men was detected, which led to an exchange of fire between the vehicle’s occupants and the military.
According to the army spokesman, soldiers stopped the car as it approached a checkpoint guarding the presidential delegation.
what of @DrGiammattei According to the Guatemalan Army, it was an attack on a patrol from the perimeter operation that was guarding it. Two kilometers from where the president was, in an area where the Nuevo Jalisco cartel operates.
– Andrés Suárez Jaramillo (@AndresSuarezJ) July 31, 2022
“Units of the Guatemalan army stopped a vehicle that was approaching their location, however, the members of the vehicle, noticing the presence of military personnel, began a series of shots to which the soldiers responded,” he said. Army spokesman.
“The reaction of the members of the vehicle deserved the response that was given and treated as a possible attack on the delegation and the integrity of the president,” he added.
Giammattei was about two kilometers away at the time of the incident.
A Mexican identified as Josué López Velásquez, an alleged member of the Nuevo Jalisco cartel, was injured in the shooting. According to the sources, López is the leader of the structure that confronted the Guatemalan military.
The army claimed that an operation had been carried out with the support of the Mexican military and that four other men had been captured in Mexican territory.
Giammattei – who was in Huehuetenango as part of a promotional tour of products grown by the inhabitants of the department for sale – has not commented on the incident.
Efe, local media
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