Mexican troops shot lifeless 19 suspected members of the Sinaloa cartel after they got here underneath assault within the northwestern state, the ministry of protection mentioned Tuesday.
Army personnel have been attacked on Monday by greater than 30 folks close to the state capital Culiacan, and the following firefight left 19 cartel members lifeless, the ministry mentioned in an announcement.
Sinaloa has seen a surge in violence because the July arrest of the cartel’s co-founder Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada in the USA.
Zambada’s arrest triggered a warfare between his kin and the sons of drug trafficker Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, who co-founded the cartel.
The ministry of protection mentioned the cartel members killed on Monday have been presumed to be linked to Zambada’s faction.
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Zambada, 76, was arrested on July 25 within the southern United States, the place he landed with Joaquin Guzman Lopez, considered one of “El Chapo’s” sons, who led a faction of the cartel generally known as the “Chapitos.” The veteran drug trafficker has accused Lopez of kidnapping him and handing him over to US legislation enforcement.
Based on an indictment launched by the U.S. Justice Division final 12 months, the “Chapitos” and their cartel associates used corkscrews, electrocution and sizzling chiles to torture their rivals whereas a few of their victims have been “fed lifeless or alive to tigers.” El Chapo’s sons have been amongst 28 Sinaloa cartel members charged in a large fentanyl-trafficking investigation introduced in April 2023.
El Chapo is serving a life sentence in a most safety jail in Colorado after being convicted in 2019 on fees together with drug trafficking, cash laundering and weapons-related offenses.
