The celebration of the son of Julio César 'Cata' Domínguez and an image of the footballer.RR.SS.
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The children are hooded and hold plastic weapons in their arms.
Their baseball caps read: Chapiza and JGL, the initials of Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the Mexican drug trafficker.
The boys, barely 12 years old, celebrate the birthday of the 35-year-old son of Mexican soccer player Julio César Domínguez.
Apology for violence in the form of revelry a couple of days after Sinaloa experienced hours of terror caused by the narco stronghold of the sons of El Chapo Guzmán.
The images of the celebration organized by
Cata
Domínguez, former player of the Mexican team, ran at full speed on social networks as soon as they were made public on their Instagram accounts.
Around midnight, Domínguez apologized: "I recognize that these [images] do not contribute to creating a better impression of Mexico and that neither I nor my family promote or justify any type of violence."
The strong shock of the confrontation between the military and drug traffickers last Thursday in the town of Jesús María, 45 kilometers from the city of Culiacán, once again showed the horror of armed violence.
From roads blocked by armed men, vehicles set on fire, families sheltered in their homes and even a commercial plane that was shot at the airport.
The Mexican authorities, despite critical hours, recaptured El Chapo's son: Ovidio Guzmán.
The balance of the operation ended with 29 deaths, 10 of them military.
The city of Culiacán was paralyzed.
And that also reached the Mexican soccer bubble.
The leaders had to cancel a match between the local team, the Dorados de Sinaloa, against the Correcaminos from Ciudad Victoria (Tamaulipas).
On more than one occasion, the Mexican League has promoted campaigns against violence.
That, however, has not caught on among the players.
Cata Domínguez will be under investigation by the Disciplinary Commission of the Mexican Football Federation for apology for violence, according to the Mediotiempo portal.
The maximum sanctions that he can receive are a fine or a temporary suspension.
So far, Liga MX and Cruz Azul, the club to which he belongs, have refrained from giving a position on the matter.
In 2019, when the first black Thursday of Culiacán occurred, the goalkeeper of the Dorados de Sinaloa, the Argentine Gaspar Servio, mocked the armed violence on his Instagram account.
In one of his stories, he showed a video with two inert bodies on the streets of Sinaloa and put, as a joke, a cumbia.
Servio was fired days after what happened.
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