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US citizen goes missing in Sinaloa, hotspot of cartel war (opens the original)
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José Antonio Castro Meza, a U.S. citizen, has been missing since Tuesday, when he was last seen in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, which is grappling with a serious outbreak of violence due to a long-running war between criminal factions. The man disappeared in the state capital, Culiacán, on September 15 and was reported missing 48 hours later by local authorities. A fact sheet with his basic information has been circulating on social media ever since his pickup truck was found near a park. Accor
Mexican searcher for the disappeared survives attack in Sinaloa: ‘They wanted to kill me’ (opens the original)
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Alma Rosa Rojo was on her way to a print shop on Saturday. Her daughter, Yesenia, was driving. The Mexican activist, known for her work searching for the disappeared, had her seven-year-old granddaughter on her lap. Her 12-year-old granddaughter was riding in the back seat. Rojo saw two men in another vehicle overtake them, make a U-turn and block their path. One of the men got out, opened the door and fired directly at them. It was another episode in the daily violence that has gripped Culiacán
Mexico’s Attorney General takes over the case of influencer César Gastélum’s livestreamed murder (opens the original)
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The Mexican Office of the Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) has taken over the case of César Gastélum, the young influencer who was shot the night of August 4 in a restaurant in Culiacán, in the state of Sinaloa, while he was streaming live. The development has been confirmed by the family through Andrea Félix, leader of the association Wives of Fallen Police Officers in Sinaloa. Last week the Sinaloa Attorney General’s Office documented the footage that Gastélum was recording for a live Ti
Chantal, the young woman who survived Mexican boxer Omar Chávez’s beatings (opens the original)
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“Sport invites us to live a full, peaceful life,” reads an Instagram post by Rubén Rocha Moya published on April 6 —at that point he was still the sitting governor of the Mexican state of Sinaloa. That day he led a boxing class with athletes, including Omar Chávez Carrasco, who a month earlier had been the target of a formal complaint for domestic violence: the man, trained to knock out professional boxers, beat his sentimental partner so badly that she required hospital treatment. “That felt li
‘Don’t go near the mountains’: Cartel violence spreads to Mazatlán as the war in Sinaloa fragments (opens the original)
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“Don’t even go near the mountains; it’s full of armed men, and it’s dangerous because the fighting is still going on in the towns below,” reads a message sent by a resident of the highlands of Concordia, in southern Sinaloa, to relatives who had fled to Mazatlán. Southern Sinaloa has become an area of constant danger. Official reports increasingly point to this part of the state, home to its flagship tourist destination: Mazatlán. Known as the Pearl of the Pacific, the port city earned its reput
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