State of the State Address Today in Chihuahua, as AMLO visits Capital

Attacks on Police, Homicides, Continue Throughout Much of the State

Juárez February Closes With Three More Homicides

**PAN Governor Javier Corral will deliver his second state of the state address in Chihuahua today, as hundreds of families grieve for the victims of recent homicides in large portions of the state.

• Much of the area around Copper Canyon is under control of organized crime, and large portions of the Western part of the state--the area from Cuauhtémoc (in the Menonite areas) to Ignacio Zaragoza, Madero, Temósachic, Gomez Farias, and up to Nueva Casas Grandes and  Casas Grandes--has been subject to a barrage of lethal attacks against constituted authority.  Juárez is undergoing a spike in homicides with levels not seen since 2011.  The fear level a few months ago among police officers was such that in the most affected areas many simply refused to go to work
• In Ignacio Zaragoza a trustee of the municipality was kidnapped.  Last year the city treasurer was kidnapped.  The administrative officer for the Municipal police in Cuauhtémoc and his bodyguard were killed on Tuesday.
• AMLO is scheduled to appear at 11 a.m. this morning in Chihuahua, at the Plaza del Angel, for a ceremonial event inaugurating a pension plan for disabled persons.

**An encobijado was found in Felipe Angeles, the neighborhood just across the river from UTEP, early this morning.  A man was shot to death at 4 p.m. yesteday afternoon at the same location in Quintas del Real where the night watchman for a gated residential area was killed. And a man was executed last night by gunfire two blocks from Oscar Flores, South of the Airport.