According to Mexican authorities, as rival drug cartel groups fight one another in the area, twenty bodies, some of which have been decapitated, have been discovered on a highway bridge in Sinaloa, Mexico.
A grisly scene was reported on Monday by the Sinaloa state prosecutor’s office, including four headless corpses discovered by the side of the road, 16 bodies discovered inside an abandoned car near Culiacan, the state capital, and five human head discoveries inside a bag.
Authorities claimed that a note, which purportedly came from one of the cartel factions, was left alongside the bodies, despite not being immediately made public.
A spokesperson for the Sinaloa government, Feliciano Castro, blasted the killings and said the “magnitude” of the violence that was witnessed necessitates a change in policy.
According to Castro, “Military and police forces are working together to restore Sinaloa’s total peace.” However, some members of the state’s electorate claimed that the state’s population had lost control.
Competent drug traffickers are vying for control of the routes used to transport and produce narcotics, including fentanyl, which are frequently destined for the United States, in Sinaloa, which have fueled months of violence.
Members of the groups are Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman and Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, co-founders of Sinaloa Cartel.
After Zambada’s arrest in July, where the violence peaks, was in July. At an airport close to El Paso, Texas, the US announced that it had detained 76-year-old Zambada and 38-year-old Joaquin Guzman Lopez, the son of El Chapo, at the airport.
Zambada claimed Guzman Lopez kidnapped him in Mexico and unlawfully flew him to the US in a private jet.
Since 2019, “El Chapo” has been serving a life sentence for drug trafficking in the US.
In federal court in Chicago, Guzman Lopez entered a not-guilty plea last July to charges ranging from drug trafficking to other crimes.
In a New York court in September, Zambada entered a not-guilty plea for drug trafficking, murder, and other charges.
More than 1,200 people have been killed in Sinaloa as a result of the violence, according to official figures.
The US has designated the Sinaloa drug cartel as one of six Mexican drug trafficking organizations.
Source: Aljazeera
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