Events: Topics: On the evening of August 27, 2019, a fire started in a nightclub in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico.
[2] The unknown assailants then locked the doors and other emergency exits of the club and then doused the building with gasoline and set it on fire.
[3] Early reports of the attacks claimed that the fire had been started by homemade bombs, although it was later recanted.
[6] President Andrés Manuel López Obrador stated that the attack "degrades us as a society, as a government, as a nation".
[7] Many were quick to point to the resemblance of a fire started by Los Zetas drug cartel at a casino eight years prior, which killed 52 people in Monterrey, Nuevo León.