{"id":7172,"date":"2025-05-20T10:25:47","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T10:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2025\/05\/20\/2-security-consultants-one-who-worked-for-u-s-killed-in-apparent-cartel-ambush-at-restaurant-in-mexico\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T10:25:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T10:25:47","slug":"2-security-consultants-one-who-worked-for-u-s-killed-in-apparent-cartel-ambush-at-restaurant-in-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2025\/05\/20\/2-security-consultants-one-who-worked-for-u-s-killed-in-apparent-cartel-ambush-at-restaurant-in-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"2 security consultants, one who worked for U.S., killed in apparent cartel ambush at restaurant in Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Mexican security consultant who recently did contract work for the U.S. State Department has been shot and killed in what appears to have been a\u00a0cartel<\/a>\u00a0ambush at a restaurant in Guadalajara.<\/p>\n

The brazen killing took place Friday after 9 p.m. as the man, C\u00e9sar Guzman, was dining with two fellow instructors with whom he had just completed a security and intelligence training course for police from Jalisco state, according to Arturo Fontes, a retired FBI agent who worked with Guzman.<\/p>\n

Fontes, in a message posted on LinkedIn<\/a>, said he and Guzman over the past two years taught counter-drug classes to Mexican police officers for the State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement in Mexico City and Queretaro state.<\/p>\n

Carlos Amador, the former undersecretary of security for Hidalgo state, was also killed, Fontes said. A third instructor, Pablo Cajigal, the former secretary of security for Chihuahua state, is in critical condition.<\/p>\n

“They were true heroes \u2014 some of the bravest individuals I have ever known,” Fontes wrote, saying that he had just celebrated Guzman’s 50th birthday a week ago.<\/p>\n

Local news reports said the men were dining at a local taco joint when unidentified gunmen shot at them before fleeing in a red Nissan. According to the state prosecutor’s office<\/a>, in addition to the two deaths, a total of two men and two women were injured in the attack, which took place at about 9:49 p.m. in San Pedro Tlaquepaque.<\/p>\n

The U.S. consulate in Guadalajara, in a statement, said the men were not currently working for the diplomatic mission. It declined to provide further details about their past affiliation with the State Department, citing security and privacy limitations.<\/p>\n

“We are deeply concerned about any act of violence and express our condolences to the victims and their families,” the consulate said.<\/p>\n

The violence marks the latest in a series of brazen attacks in Jalisco. Last week, Mexican social media influencer was shot dead<\/a><\/span> during a live stream on TikTok, also in Jalisco. Officials said Valeria M\u00e1rque<\/a><\/span>z was handed a stuffed animal and a bag of Starbucks coffee while she was on the livestream, and was shot in the head and the chest, collapsing on camera.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In April, a politician was shot and killed<\/a><\/span> on Monday while dining at a seafood restaurant in Jalisco. Just days before that, a mother searching for missing relatives was\u00a0murdered along with her son<\/a><\/span>\u00a0in the same region.<\/p>\n

The state’s municipal police chief was murdered on April 15.<\/p>\n

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