2024-09-18 12:40:50
For more than a week, two groups of the Sinaloa cartel have been fighting in the capital of the Mexican city of the same name, Culiacan. Millions of armed citizens are guarding the streets of the city and around the villages behind the walls, where they are fighting. The authorities counted at least 39 people killed, including two soldiers, 37 forced disappearances, 13 fighting with the army, roads blocked, trucks burned and dozens of cars stolen , while hackers took control of the websites of two local government agencies to spread war propaganda. .
“People are very scared, shopping centers are empty, delivery services are suspended, schools are closed and public transport is starting to run again”confirms Ismael Bohorquez, director of the week Riodocebased in Culiacan. “The conflicts are increasing. The two groups kidnapped many people, many people lost, but they are still weighing each other and we can fear strong battles in the future; for this time, there has not been a major attack like that of 2008″added this journalist, in reference to the fratricidal war that took place sixteen years ago during the division of the Sinaloa cartel, which caused more than 5,000 deaths.
At the origin of the new explosion of violence, there is the void left by Ismael Zambada Garcia, alias “El Mayo”, the historical leader of the Sinaloa cartel, after the capture by the American authorities, which took place on July 25 in July 25 still unclear circumstances. In a letter his lawyers shared with the press on August 6, the 76-year-old criminal said that Joaquin Guzman Lopez, one of the sons of the famous drug dealer Joaquin « El Chapo » Guzman, kidnapped him and forced him on a plane to surrender to justice in the United States. Another version indicates that the drug trafficker negotiated his surrender with the American authorities.
Surprised by the arrest of “El Mayo”, the Mexican government quickly moved, on July 28, an additional 200 soldiers to Culiacan, hoping to stop the branch of the organization by the sons of« El Chapo »called “los Chapitos”, and it is now taken by the children of« El Mayo”, to start a war to recover the remains of the criminal regime carried out by the drug trafficker over four years.
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