Published on October 1, 2024 at 10:01. / Modified on October 1, 2024 at 2:56 p.m.
The message is written in black spray on a white van: “Welcome to Culiacan”. Inside, five naked bodies studded with bullets. There is no doubt that the authors of this macabre scene knew that Mexican President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador, known as AMLO, was going near Culiacan, the capital of Sinaloa, last Friday. In this state in western Mexico, residents have witnessed clashes in the street between hitmen of the Sinaloa cartel and the army. They have already left more than 120 dead and dozens missing.
Heir to a country that conservative President Felipe Calderon plunged into a cartel war in 2006, the socialist AMLO has never managed to reduce violence in Mexico, unlike poverty. Violence and insecurity represent the major failure of his mandate and materialize in clashes between rival cartels, extortion of businesses, migrant trafficking and drug trafficking. Again this year, more than 35,000 people have died in the violence.
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