The narco dead in Sinaloa, but laughing.

It was April 29, 1977, that less than four months had passed since Operation Condor began, “the most gigantic drug-trafficking campaign in Mexico, with the participation of more than 10,000 soldiers.” Then, Governor Alfonso G. Calderón, accompanied by the mayor of Culiacán, Fortunato Álvarez, declared before the national press that drug trafficking in Sinaloa was “bashed in its entirety.” Continue reading