The wreckage of a car that was burnt in a blockade set by members of the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel to repel security forces during an anti-fuel theft operation is pictured in Santa Rosa de Lima, in Guanajuato state, Mexico, March 6, 2019. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido
SANTA ROSA DE LIMA, Mexico (Reuters) - Burned-out autos littered empty streets this week in the town where Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador unleashed a first major push to take control of territory absorbed by organized crime during years of mounting violence.
The central town of Santa Rosa de Lima, a few miles east of Salamanca, home to one of the nation's main oil refineries, is close to a center of the nation's auto industry.
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