At the epicenter of the Mexican drug trade, a deadly power struggle shuts down a city

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At the epicenter of the Mexican drug trade, a deadly power struggle shuts down a city
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More than 140 people have been killed in the last month in Culiacán as two factions of the Sinaloa compete to fill a power vacuum.

In this city built from the spoils of Mexico's richest drug-trafficking empire, they’re calling it the “narco-pandemia’’ — not a virus but a deadly reckoning inside the Sinaloa cartel that has left businesses shuttered, schools empty and the streets nearly deserted. Even the glitzy bars, exclusive car dealerships and plastic surgery boutiques catering to cartel lieutenants and their entourages are mostly closed.

For the next several weeks, as cartel bosses apparently figured out what to do, life seemed to go on as usual in Culiacán. Then on Sept. 9, nine people were found shot dead, bodies scattered on streets and roads. The killings have not abated. In addition to the soaring number of homicides— the total last month almost tripled the September 2023 figure — civic groups have reported more than 100 people 'disappeared.

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