MEXICO CITY — Authorities made a chain of arrests of drug cartel figures in western Mexico that activate destruction of automobiles and companies in two states in obvious response.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador didn’t establish the ones arrested Tuesday in Jalisco state, however mentioned squaddies had faced criminals, together with “bosses,” at a “assembly of 2 gangs.” There was once a shootout, arrests after which “this provoked protests of burned automobiles, no longer simplest in Jalisco, but additionally in Guanajuato,” he mentioned.