12 Influencers Killed in War Mayiza vs. Chapiza
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Another of the balances of the war between La Mayiza and Los Chapitos: 12 influencers killed. The figure includes since September 2024, when the conflict began between the two groups of the Sinaloa Cartel, after the kidnapping and transfer to the United States of Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada. The deadly attacks recorded 10 victims within Sinaloa territory -with a high concentration of armed attacks in the urban sector Tres Ríos de Culiacán - and two…
12 influencers were killed in recent years in different regions of Mexico.
The crime of César Gastelum is the most recent case of a wave of murders of content creators in Culiacán. Expert consulted by El Comercio argues that many influencers ended up “depressed by narcoculture” and caught up in the internal dispute of the Sinaloa Cartel
The phenomenon has generated concern in Mexico about the increasing risk faced by some content creators in the midst of violence.
At least 19 content creators were murdered in eight Mexican states between 2024 and August 2026, according to a count by El Universal. Sinaloa was the epicenter of the violence, accounting for eight of the cases, followed by Guerrero with three, Jalisco and Nuevo León with two each, and Baja California, Chiapas, Morelos, and Guanajuato with one homicide per state.
César Gastélum, an influencer with more than 700,000 followers on TikTok and a YouTube channel, was killed Tuesday night in Culiacán, Sinaloa, during a live broadcast. The case is the most recent of a series of attacks against content creators in the country, according to a recount by El Universal. Since 2024, at least 19 influencers have been killed in eight states. The number went from four cases in 2024 to 11 during 2025, while in what is goi…
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