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Chaos at Ensenada Car Rally – Shooting Leaves 10 Dead, 9 Injured

2023-05-21

[Times of SD] At least 10 people were killed and nine injured in a Saturday shootout at a car rally in Baja California, the municipal government reported.

The attack occurred during an all-terrain car racing event in the San Vicente area of Ensenada, about two hours south of San Diego.

At around 2:18 p.m., authorities said people with long guns exited a gray van and began shooting at participants at a gas station, according to reports of 911 calls.

Municipal and state police, the Marines, the Fire Department and Mexican Red Cross, among other agencies, arrived at the scene.

Ensenada Mayor Armando Ayala Robles said state Attorney General Ricardo Ivan Carpio Sanchez commissioned a special group to investigate the shooting.

Videos posted to social media show people reacting in confusion and fleeing as shots are fired, along with bodies on the ground.

The director of the Agencia Fronteriza de Noticias (AFN Tijuana), citing unofficial sources, reported on Twitter that the massacre was "due to a ’fight’ between the CJNG (cartel) and the Sinaloa cartel."

Organizers of the two-day event, Cachanillazo, which was to conclude Saturday, posted a message to their Instagram account expressing sympathy to those affected by the tragedy, adding that "unfortunately, what happened during the tour was not in our hands."

"We are as baffled as all of you since we have nothing to do with what happened," they concluded.

Posted by:Frank G

#10 I guess they take their car rallies really seriously down there.

Posted by: Glenmore 2023-05-21 14:08

#9 Man, so Baltimore comes in second place for once. That's tough to do.

Posted by: DooDahMan 2023-05-21 11:32

#8 Don't drink the water.

Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-05-21 11:25

#7 Unlike Tijuana, Ensenada was a great weekend liberty town from Pendleton in the early seventies.

Posted by: NoMoreBS 2023-05-21 11:24

#6 Holy shit! My wife and I are taking a cruise to Hawaii next month. On the way back, they are stopping in Ensenada. I may stay on board that day.

Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2023-05-21 11:20

#5 Ensenada and the Baja vinyards/winemaking region had been relatively safe

Posted by: Frank G 2023-05-21 10:47

#4 Ensada rivaling Chicago on a Saturday night?

Posted by: JohnQC 2023-05-21 10:17

#3 Mexico Today 2022:
Vanda Felbab-Brown explores these cartels “foreign policies” in the Americas. This piece was originally published by Mexico Today:
The competition between the Sinaloa Cartel and Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) is playing out not only across Mexico, but increasingly around the globe. Although the much older Sinaloa Cartel has had far more established external relations and been the innovator in expanding a global presence, CJNG is aggressively pushing into new territories abroad where it seeks to catch up to or displace the Sinaloa Cartel. In various parts of Latin America, the competition between them has amplified violence or triggered new conflicts....

Posted by: Slavising Unineting5672 2023-05-21 08:19

#2 Some 51 US intelligence professionals now blame the Russians for the unrest, recommend sending weapons and ammunition to help defend the Baja.

[sarc off]

Posted by: Besoeker 2023-05-21 07:44

#1 Good thing Mexico has such strict restrictions on gun ownership.

Posted by: EMS Artifact 2023-05-21 07:40

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