An operation that went off track
The scene looks like something out of an action movie gone wrong. Eight members of the Mexican Army are hospitalized in Culiacán after an accident during a high-risk chase. The deployment, intended to capture a group of heavily armed civilians, ended with two Army Dodge Ram trucks destroyed and an emergency helicopter flying over the fields of Santa Martha.
It all happened on the highway known as “la Veinte”, near Villa Juárez, Navolato. The official version is clear: one military unit collided with another due to the high speeds involved in the chase. The force of the impact was such that it required immediate air evacuation.
“Due to the speed, one of the military units collided with another by range, so with the force of the impact eight elements were injured.”
The questions that no one answers
This is where the script gets interesting. The authorities of the Ninth Military Zone remain completely silent about the condition of the wounded soldiers. We do not know their names, their grades, or the severity of their injuries. There is also no clarity about the real result of the operation.
Was the armed group captured? The official response is an empty echo: “it is unknown.” As eight families wait for news in a hospital, the very effectiveness of the mission remains in doubt. Resources were mobilized, lives were risked, but the main objective seems to have evaporated in the smoke of the accident.
In the theater of public security, this act ended with injuries and a villain who possibly escaped in the chaos. The next scene is still to be written.




