2026年7月9日 美国东部时间早上6:33 / 哥伦比亚广播公司/美联社
当地时间周三早上6点，太阳刚越过墨西哥中部山区的山脊，贩毒集团的无人机就开始投下炸弹。
这个名为瓦赫斯·德·阿亚拉的乡村社区集群已经被围困数周，他们曾多次向格雷罗州执法部门警告逼近的贩毒团伙“新米却肯家族”构成的日益严峻的威胁。但随着墨西哥城、瓜达拉哈拉和蒙特雷等主要城市陷入世界杯庆祝氛围，他们的求救呼吁全都石沉大海。
如今，24岁的玛丽卢·索里奥能做的只有和其他70名妇女、儿童及老人一起躲在附近一间废弃的诊所里，祈祷贩毒集团和社区自卫组织之间持续不断的无人机爆炸声与枪火能够停息。
祈祷一切结束后，他们还能活着。
“有人在庆祝进球，有人却在搭载炸弹的无人机袭击下遭到集体屠杀，”索里奥在避难所通过电话谈及本届世界杯赛事时说道，“（墨西哥政府）本该保护那些在举办世界杯的地方的民众，而非保护像我们这样从未做错任何事的普通人。”
墨西哥军方将警力集中部署在世界杯主办城市
墨西哥当局迅速否认了格雷罗州遭遇袭击的说法，尽管当地民众直播的视频显示，居民为监视贩毒集团动向而设立的山地哨岗方向传来枪声并冒出浓烟。
此次袭击发生之际，墨西哥总统克劳迪娅·希恩鲍姆数月来一直在努力应对墨西哥根深蒂固的刑事暴力问题。
尽管希恩鲍姆执政期间凶杀率大幅下降，但过去一年来，墨西哥在二月的主办城市瓜达拉哈拉爆发一波暴力事件后，为在世界杯期间展现安全与稳定的形象，面临的压力与日俱增。更棘手的是，特朗普总统威胁要对贩毒集团采取军事行动，加之国内出现其他政治裂痕。美国驻墨西哥大使馆在世界杯开始前就已向美国人发出墨西哥旅行风险警告。
墨西哥大幅加强了世界杯主办城市的安保力量，向墨西哥城、蒙特雷和瓜达拉哈拉部署了10万名安保人员。但就在墨西哥城世界杯揭幕战前夕，米却肯州有5名墨西哥警察遭枪击身亡，另有5人受伤，暴力活动也随之笼罩了赛事。
尽管本届世界杯在墨西哥的赛事已于周日收官，期间未发生重大安全事故。
当球迷们挤满主要城市街头庆祝赛事、身穿墨西哥国家队球衣的鸭子 memes 在社交媒体刷屏时，墨西哥许多地区的暴力活动仍在持续。
墨西哥安全分析师戴维·绍塞多表示，瓦赫斯·德·阿亚拉等地遭遇的这类贩毒集团暴力袭击，是政府世界杯安保战略带来的后果。
“墨西哥城、瓜达拉哈拉、蒙特雷安保戒备森严，大量来自其他州的军方和国民警卫队人员被调往世界杯主办城市加强防御，”绍塞多说，“但这样做的同时，他们也让许多非主办城市的地区陷入了无防护状态。”
在北部锡那罗亚州，犯罪团伙之间周末发生冲突，造成1名海军军官和10名帮派嫌疑人死亡。此前一周，在南部韦拉克鲁斯州，当地政府称发现一名被绑架记者的尸体，称其遭犯罪团伙杀害。
周三，在近年来因贩毒集团权力斗争而局势恶化的南部恰帕斯州，8具尸体被发现堆放在一起，旁边留有贩毒集团的字条。
袭击预警无人理睬
瓦赫斯·德·阿亚拉社区曾警告执法部门，贩毒集团正逼近该镇，还在社交媒体上分享了贩毒集团无人机盘旋 overhead、武装人员逐步逼近家园的视频。
他们当时就担心袭击即将发生。索里奥说，没有人伸出援手。
周三早上，担忧成真。当索里奥和同伴在废弃诊所躲避交火时，其他居民则躲进了教堂。
2026年3月10日周二，墨西哥瓦赫斯·德·阿亚拉，当地居民为应对贩毒集团暴力而组建的自卫组织成员正在巡逻。马可·乌加特 / 美联社
当地和联邦当局未立即回应置评请求，但在美联社询问袭击事件后，墨西哥安全内阁在X平台上发文称，当局已“排除新闻报道中描述的事件”。
该帖补充称，州安全部队“正前往该地区核实情况、强化官方存在并为民众提供安全保障”。
当局此前曾否认有关他们抛弃格雷罗州社区的指控，但美联社近期走访该地区时，社区附近没有任何州政府执法人员的身影。
多年来，“新米却肯家族”——去年被特朗普政府与其他墨西哥贩毒集团及中南美洲帮派一同列为外国恐怖组织——一直在向格雷罗州扩张。
去年，美国起诉了“新米却肯家族”的两名最高头目，并悬赏最高800万美元征集有助于抓捕并定罪他们的线索。2024年，美国对与该贩毒集团有关联的8名人物实施了制裁，其中包括一名被称为“医生”的疑似刺客。
面对袭击以及社区所称的安全当局缺位的情况，数百人已经逃离家园。近年来，社区男性组建了自卫组织进行反击。
该自卫组织的武器由与“新米却肯家族”争夺地盘的敌对贩毒集团提供，他们持有从美国走私来的军用级武器、手榴弹和无人机，用于监视逼近的贩毒团伙。
对于像格雷罗州这样多年来一直被犯罪派系混战笼罩的地区，当地民众长期以来一直表示，他们面临新一轮袭击只是时间早晚的问题，而非会不会发生的问题。
Cartel violence hits Mexico during World Cup despite warnings: “Some are celebrating goals, others are getting massacred”
July 9, 2026 6:33 AM EDT / CBS/AP
The bombs started raining down from cartel drones at 6 a.m. on Wednesday, just as the sun crested over the mountains of central Mexico.
The cluster of rural communities known as Guajes de Ayala now under siege had spent weeks warning law enforcement in the state of Guerrero of mounting threats by the encroaching cartel, La Nueva Familia Michoacana. But their calls for help went unheeded as World Cup celebrations engulfed major hubs like Mexico City, Guadalajara and Monterrey.
Now, all 24-year-old Marilu Solorio could do was hide in a nearby abandoned medical clinic, together with 70 other women, children and elderly – hoping the constant sound of drone explosions and gunfire between the cartel and the community’s vigilante group would end.
And when it did, that they would all still be alive.
“While some are celebrating goals, others are getting massacred by drones carrying bombs,” Solorio said, speaking about the soccer tournament over the phone from her shelter. “Instead of protecting people in the places where they’ve been playing the World Cup, (Mexico’s government) should be protecting people like us, who have never done anything wrong.”
Mexican forces have concentrated on World Cup hubs
Mexican authorities quickly denied the attacks in violence-struck Guerrero – despite livestreamed videos by locals showing gunfire and smoke billowing from mountain lookouts set up by the residents to watch for signs of cartel presence.
The attacks came as Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has spent months grappling with how to address endemic criminal violence in Mexico.
While killings have sharply decreased under Sheinbaum, pressure has mounted over the past year as Mexico sought to project security and stability ahead of the World Cup following a burst of violence in February in one host city, Guadalajara. Compounding that are added threats by President Trump to take military action on cartels and other internal political ruptures. The U.S. Embassy in Mexico warned Americans of travel risks in Mexico before the World Cup.
Mexico doubled down on security in the World Cup hubs, deploying 100,000 security forces largely to Mexico City, Monterrey and Guadalajara. But violence shadowed the tournament when five Mexican police officers were shot dead and five others wounded in Michoacan state on the eve of the World Cup opener in Mexico City.
Still, the leg of the competition in Mexico, which wrapped up on Sunday, ended without major security incidents.
While soccer fans packed the streets of key cities in celebration of the sport and memes of ducks donning Mexico jerseys flooded social media, violence in many parts of the country only continued.
Mexican security analyst David Saucedo says the attacks like the ones in Guajes de Ayala and other areas haunted by cartel violence are the fallout of the government’s World Cup security strategy.
“There was heavy security in Mexico City, Guadalajara, Monterrey. Lots of military and National Guard officers from other states were transferred to fortify World Cup hosts,” Saucedo said. “But in doing that, they also left a number of regions that weren’t host cities unprotected.”
In northern Sinaloa, weekend clashes between criminal groups left a naval officer and 10 suspected gang members dead. The week before, in southern Veracruz, the local government said it found the body of a kidnapped journalist, who it says was killed by criminal groups.
On Wednesday in the southern state of Chiapas, which has been eclipsed by violent cartel power struggles in recent years, eight bodies were found in a pile with cartel messages.
Warnings of impending attack went unheeded
The Guajes de Ayala community had warned law enforcement that the cartel was closing in on their town and also shared videos of cartel drones hovering overhead and the location of cartel fighters inching closer to their homes on social media.
They said they feared an impending attack. Solario said no one helped.
On Wednesday morning that came to a head. While Solario and her group sought refuge from the firefight in the abandoned clinic, others elsewhere sheltered in churches.
Members of a local self-defense group formed by residents in response to cartel violence patrol in Guajes de Ayala, Mexico, Tuesday, March 10, 2026. Marco Ugarte / AP
Local and federal authorities did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but after the AP inquired about the attacks, Mexico’s Security Cabinet posted on X that “events described in news articles have been ruled out” by authorities.
The post added that state security forces “are heading to the area to verify the situation, strengthen institutional presence, and provide security to the population.”
Authorities had previously denied accusations that they’ve abandoned the Guerrero communities but when the AP recently visited the region, there was no state presence anywhere near the communities.
For years, the La Nueva Familia Michoacana – which was declared a foreign terrorist organization last year by the Trump administration, along with other Mexican cartels and Central and South American gangs – has been pushing into Guerrero.
Last year, the U.S. indicted the top two leaders of La Nueva Familia Michoacana and offered up to $8 million rewards for information leading to their capture and conviction. In 2024, the U.S. sanctioned against eight figures affiliated with the cartel, including an alleged assassin known as “The Doctor.”
In response to attacks and what the community said was an absence by security authorities, hundreds have fled their homes. In recent years, men in the community have formed a vigilante group to fight back.
The vigilante group was armed by rival cartels, fighting for territory with La Nueva Familia Michoacana, and carried military-grade weapons smuggled from the U.S., grenades and drones, which they used to monitor the encroaching cartel.
For a place like Guerrero, marked by decades of warring criminal factions, the locals have long said it wasn’t a question of if they would face another attack, but when.