2 security consultants, one who worked for us, ambush in the apparent cartel in the restaurant in Mexico

A Mexican security advisor who recently carried out contract work for the US State Department was apparently an ambush in a restaurant in Guadalajara.

The brazen murder took place on Friday evening after 9:00 p.m. when the man, César Guzman, was dining with two colleagues with whom he had just completed a security and intelligence agency training course for the police from the state of Jalisco, said Arturo Fontes, a retired FBI agent who worked with Guzman.

Fontes said in a message published on LinkedIn, and Guzman had taught Mexican police officers for the Office for International Narcotics and law enforcement agencies of the Foreign Ministry in Mexico City and the US state of Queretaro for the past two years.

Carlos Amador, the former understate secretary of security for the state of Hidalgo, was also killed, said Fontes. A third trainer, Pablo Cajigal, the former Secretary for Security for the State of Chihuahua, is in a critical condition.

“They were true heroes – some of the bravest people I have ever known,” wrote Fontes and said that he had just celebrated Guzman's 50th birthday a week ago.

Local messages reported that the men would dine in a local Taco -Joint when they shot at them as unidentified armed men before they fled in a red Nissan. According to the public prosecutor, two men and two women were injured in addition to the two deaths in the attack, who took place in San Pedro Tlaquepaque around 9:49 p.m.

The US consulate in Guadalajara said in a statement that the men were currently not working for the diplomatic mission. It refused to receive further details on their previous membership in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and cited security and data protection restrictions.

“We are deeply concerned about every act of violence and express our condolences to the victims and their families,” said the consulate.

Violence is the latest in a number of brazen attacks in Jalisco. Last week the Mexican Social Media Influencer was shot During a live stream on Tikkok, also in Jalisco. Officials said Valeria MárqueZ received a stuffed animal and a bag of Starbucks coffee while she was on the livestream and was shot in the head and chest, collapsing in front of the camera.

In April was a politician shot and killed On Monday while eating in a fish restaurant in Jalisco. Only days earlier was a mother looking for missing relatives murdered together with her son in the same region.

The state's urban police chief was murdered on April 15.