Sinaloa has recorded more than 800 murders in the last five months, since an internal struggle of the eponymous cartel began in September after the capture of Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, co-founder of the criminal organization that now demands that the United States repatriate him to Mexico.
The entity in the northwest of the country totals 803 homicides in the period, with 147 victims in January, which are added to the 157 in December, 174 in November, 182 in October and 143 in September, according to an analysis of the database of the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System (SESNSP).
Although murders in January fell by 6.37% monthly and is the second lowest figure in the last five months, the year-on-year increase was 165% compared to the 52 in the first month of 2024, according to a report by the General Coordination of the State Council of Public Security of Sinaloa.
“We have been informed of significant seizures of weapons, drugs and people; however, we also hope that these results will be reflected in the decrease in the incidence of crime, at least as a first step, to pre-conflict levels of organized crime,” said Miguel Calderón Quevedo, general coordinator of CESP.
Amid the violence of the Sinaloa Cartel, which the United States considers a terrorist group as of this week, the SESNSP recorded 994 intentional homicides and 28 femicides in Sinaloa in all of 2024, a total of 1,022 murders, almost double, 81.9% more, than the 562 in 2023.
The Government of Mexico attributes the phenomenon of violence to the struggle between the factions of Los Chapitos and Los Mayos after the capture on July 25 in the United States of Zambada, betrayed by Joaquín Guzmán López, one of the sons of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, who put him on a plane to hand him over to US authorities.
The arrest, which Mexico has called a kidnapping, occurred during the presidency of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (2018-2024), who accused the United States of being co-responsible for the violence in Sinaloa, something that the current president, Claudia Sheinbaum, has replicated.
Source: informador
