Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is asking the warring factions of the Sinaloa cartel terrorizing the capital city of Culiacán to act 'responsibly” so no one else gets killed. His plea comes after a weeklong escalation of violence that has nearly paralyzed the city of 1 million.
Outgoing President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador delivers his last State of the Union at the Zocalo, Mexico City’s main square, Sunday, Sept. 1, 2024. on Friday asked the warring factions of the Sinaloa cartel to act “responsibly” so no one else gets killed, after a week of escalating violence
The exchange Friday during the president’s morning press briefing is the latest in a series of instances where López Obrador has downplayed the clashes between, laying out various justifications for his “hugs, not bullets” strategy offering opportunities to youths so they won’t join cartels. The surge in violence had been expected after Joaquín Guzmán López, a son of former Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, landed near El Paso, Texas on July 25 in a small plane with
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