Cartel carnage in Sinaloa


Police officers guarding a crime scene in Culiacan, Mexico, in which the bodies of six men were found crammed inside a white van with “Welcome to Culiacan” spray-painted in black, in Spanish. — ©️2024 The New York Times Company

BODIES dumped on the roadside. Gunfights erupting in affluent neighbourhoods. Lorries set ablaze on highways. People pulled from cars by armed men in broad daylight.

This is the face of war within one of the most powerful criminal organisations in the world – the Sinaloa cartel. Two rival factions are now locked in a violent struggle for control over a multibillion-dollar drug empire.

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