Heartbreak in Sinaloa, Mexico

Raging Cartel Violence Forces Mexican Universities to Close Doors

Universities in western Mexico were forced to close their doors due to the raging cartel violence in Sinaloa, which led to hundreds of murders, hundreds of forced disappearances, arson attacks, and other acts of violence. The schools are forced to offer remote classes despite the many claims made by Mexican government officials that security is improving in the region. This week, El Debate reported that the Sinaloa Autonomous University (UAS) an…

At least 10 people were killed in Sinaloa, where attacks, clashes and blockades were recorded.

Heartbreak in Sinaloa, Mexico

Violence in Mexico’s Sinaloa has spiked, as a war rages between two factions of the infamous Sinaloa Cartel. Civilians are often the victims of that lawlessness. CNN’s Isobel Yeung went to the funeral of a young woman, Vivian Aispuro, whose body was missing for 17 days. To read and watch the full report, head to CNN.com.

On the eve of Claudia Sheinbaum’s inauguration as president, his secretary of Public Security, Omar García Harfuch, said that the definition of the success of the new strategy to confront organized crime would be the pacification of Sinaloa. The internal war of the Sinaloa Cartel had just begun, which needed no diagnosis to know what it would represent. There was experience of a similar phenomenon in the same organization in 2008, when the implo…

According to the organization that monitors violence globally, in the next six months the attacks in Mexico will increase, mainly in Sinaloa. The Mexican government has “power but not control” of the entire territory, the organization said.