This Sunday the death of the 13 miners reported as kidnapped was confirmed. The men, for whom it had been requested 4 million solesthey were found inside a sinkhole, naked and with signs of torture. According to the relatives of the victims, the bodies were found handcuffedsuggesting that they were executed with weapons equipped with silencers. According to the authorities, the person responsible would be Miguel Rodríguez Díaz, alias ‘knife or trigger’, linked to other attacks that also culminated with fatalities.
The conflict around illegal gold has made mining areas a field of high danger, where workers face not only adverse working conditions, but also the constant risk of being victims of violence unleashed by these organizations. The situation has highlighted the Government’s inability to contain clashes and guarantee security In these areas, despite the measures implemented.
Through a statement, the Ministry of Interior ordered the deployment of elite units of the special group against organized crime, together with specialized divisions of the Directorate of Criminal Investigation (Dirincri), focused on kidnappings, extortion and homicides, in order to find the location and capture of those responsible. Although there is still no greater progress in the investigation, the dangerous history of ‘knife’ and the latest communications that victims had closeness reinforce their participation.
“Those who have our boys are a criminal nicknamed ‘knife’ and have them in the mine of one ‘Galindo’. They have entered armed to the mine and there are 13 of our workers. We are negotiating, but the criminals do not want to know anything. That the police have knowledge of this and are going to rescue them. We are not with their arms crossed,” said one of the companions of the kidnapped, prior to confirmed to confirm the massacre.
Miguel Antonio Rodríguez Díaz, aka ‘knife or trigger’it is related to different criminal organizations linked to the crimes of homicide, sicariate, illegal possession of firearms, ammunition and explosives, in the province of Pataz. The most violent incursions are attributed to socavones and the death of several people.
In 2014 there are already reports as one of the members of the self -domiciled band ‘Los Chuckys’, which used a diabolical doll mask when they committed a robbery in the city. Police reported that they were arrested when they were going to perpetrate an assault in the district of Florencia de Mora, one of the most convulsed in the city, and They were seized two guns, 17 dynamite cartridges, 65 ammunition, balaclavas and drugs.
In 2023, during a Operational in Casma, Áncash, The murder of ten miners from the Minera was arrested for his participation Powerful. “’Who kills them at the nine of Pataz, who has killed them? (…) How much did you think they were going to give you for that chamba?’ They did not tell me, but more or less 5 thousand soles, “is part of the Yenci Bravo Miranda confession, another of those captured and involved in the attack.
As recalled, the early morning of December 2 of that year, a group of criminals entered the facilities of the Mining Minera. There, they sought to enter a socavón with the use of explosives, which generated the Death of ten security agents and 15 injured. At that time he was syndicated as a member of the band ‘Los Bulgaros del Norte’.
According to the Casma commissioner, Commander Richard Morales Ortega, the trip was not to escape from the attack, but for kidnap two entrepreneurs and ask for money for their rescue. In addition, it was known that they also had planned to travel to Lima to kill to the alleged kidnapper of the girl Valeria, known as “the ugly.”
Subsequently, in 2024, he was linked to the criminal organization ‘La Gran Alianza’, dedicated to illegal gold extraction, which accumulated 80 million soles in goods. According to police reports, ‘Knife’ had Juan Manuel Blas Lezama as an allybrother of the late leader Josué Oliver Blas Lezama, better known as the ‘Cote Cote’, a fact that would have positioned him as one of the most weight members inside the band that generates terror in Pataz.
