Other MoA event in Mexico on Sun 7th December 2025

The armed attack at the "La Resaka" bar in Tula de Allende, Hidalgo, which left six dead and at least eight wounded in the early hours of Saturday, November 29, was a failed execution attempt against someone close to a local criminal leader, according to the reconstruction of events presented by the state Security Cabinet.

Authorities confirmed that an armed group arrived in two pickup trucks and fired bursts of heavy-caliber weapons at patrons and the building. Images of the attack were captured on the bar's security camera and shared on social media.

The intended target is presumed to have escaped, as they were not among the dead or wounded.

The attack is attributed to a territorial dispute between the criminal factions known as Los H and Los Solas. Both were formerly part of the same organization that split after the arrest of their leader, Hugo Alberto Muñoz Marmolejo, alias "El H," last March.

According to the crime profile of the Public Security Secretariat (SSPH), the factions are now led by J. L. S. Z., alias “El Cuquis,” and L. B. D. R., “El Perico,” and their confrontation reportedly extended to the nightclub.

“At the nightclub was a person very close to alias ‘El Cuquis,’ who is mainly involved in street-level drug dealing. The other group arrived to execute him, and that's where the situation we already know about began,” explained the Secretary of Security, Salvador Cruz Neri.

The official added that, although the target managed to escape, intelligence confirmed that the commando was going to execute this close associate of “El Cuquis,” who controls drug sales in the region.

The state police chief admitted that the commando even doused the bar's entrance with gasoline, although they ultimately did not set it on fire.

The Deputy Attorney General of the Criminal Investigation Agency (AIC), Luis Cruz Mera, detailed that approximately eight individuals participated in the attack, using high-caliber weapons: 7.62, .223, and 9mm.

Although the Secretary of Public Security had downplayed the threat posed by these organizations days earlier, this attack demonstrated their firepower. Cruz Neri insisted that the main conflict among these groups is for control of fuel theft (huachicol) from the state's pipelines.

Regarding whether there were civilians among the victims, the Acting Attorney General, Francisco Fernández Hasbun, said that this information was confidential, but promised that "you will know very soon."

Cruz Mera stated that they have apprehended criminal leaders from these factions, such as "El H" and "El Chino Mayoreo."

Furthermore, although Cruz Neri stated he had no information regarding alliances in Hidalgo, the federal report from the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC) has suggested a possible link between Los H and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), a franchise model that the DEA has also documented in the region.

The DEA, in its 2025 National Drug Threat Assessment, identifies the CJNG, La Familia Michoacana, and the Sinaloa Cartel as operating in Hidalgo.