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The War Moved South: Sinaloa’s Second Year (opens the original)
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ACLED’s September 17 analysis shows Sinaloa’s Chapitos–Mayos war didn’t end in year two—it relocated. Overall organized-crime violence dropped about 28% as Los Mayos gained ground around Culiacán, while Mazatlán and Escuinapa absorbed the fight, drones filled the gap left by fewer street clashes, and the blood spilled into Baja California and Zacatecas. This is what a cartel civil war looks like when the map changes but the war doesn’t quit.
More Boots, Same War: What Sinaloa's Troop Surge Can and Can't Do (opens the original)
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Mexico is sending roughly 3,400 more troops from the Army, Navy, and SSPC into Sinaloa, with Mazatlán, Culiacán, and the state's highways as priorities. The reinforcements arrive in the middle of a Chapitos-Mayos war now more than two years old. SEDENA has pointed to large 2026 statewide seizure and lab totals as evidence of progress. But past surges suggest force can quiet the headlines without resolving the fight over territory and routes.
Cutting the Cell: The Escuinapa Bust and “El Casco” (opens the original)
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Mexican Army and state special ops rolled into La Isla del Bosque on September 11 and took down eleven alleged Chapitos shooters tied to regional boss Óscar Luciano Martínez Larios, “El Casco.” Twelve long guns and tactical kit came with them. The bigger shadow over the raid is the January Concordia miners case—ten workers taken and killed, still hanging over southern Sinaloa.
The Farm That Healed Them Wrong (opens the original)
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20-year-old left Tlaquepaque in a taxi for a farm job and vanished; the search led investigators to Tecalitlán, Jalisco. There they found eight men held in a dim, stained-room clinic the CJNG used to patch up recruits it would not let leave. Six guards were arrested. Two of the rescued were on crutches. The highway advertisements that brought them there are still being taken down.
From Soccer Jersey to Tactical Vest: The 15-Year-Old Who Died Beside a Cartel Boss (opens the original)
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Mexican security forces killed a 15-year-old alleged assassin and his uncle, a wanted cartel leader, in a Michoacán ranch raid. The case exposes how some Mexican criminal groups function as family enterprises that pull relatives into violence at an early age. It also shows why Washington has designated allied factions as terrorist organizations and offered multimillion-dollar rewards for their leaders.
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