Take the CDS War to Route to Sonora

The México 15 International Highway, which goes from Culiacán to Sonora, yesterday became a battlefield where members of “Los Chapitos” and “Los Mayos” engaged in clashes with the use of high caliber rifles, trucks with handmade armor, fragmentation grenades, homemade pumps and punches.

From Friday night and until yesterday, criminals stripped of their vehicles to dozens of motorists to cross them and set fire to them on this road, from the departure of Culiacán, through Angostura, Guasave, Guamúchil, the accesses to Los Mochis neighbor to Sonora, as well as in the deviations to mocorito and topolobampo.

The staggered barriers of the narcobloqueos hanged a section of about 52 kilometers, so state police who tried to reach the points of violence were stranded. Military agreed to the confrontation points hours later, after firefighters extinguished fire in cars. Truck drivers with passengers, cargo or merchandise delivery deviated to some towns that wore empty before the constant shootings, according to state sources.

Until yesterday, the authorities did not give a balance of injured or deceased people. However, the sources indicated that in these cases the triggers of each side often take their dead.

During the confrontations between the criminal factions there were no shootings with the authority or messages on social networks to alert the situation. In Angostura, local sources reported that the army arrested about seven men and seized five trucks with artisanal armor. In their report, the military indicated that the criminal cell assaulted the troops on Highway 15. They assured that an army truck resulted in damage due to bullet impacts. In the case of Angostura, in the community of Rafael Buelna, it was indicated that three men were injured by a firearm, including a soldier, although this version was not confirmed by military authorities. After the acts of violence, some 400 military elements, of the National Guard and the State Police were deployed in the area, from Culiacán to the limits with Sonora, on Highway 15. From May 4, that area of Sinaloa It reports a rise of shootings and persecutions for the control of route 15 to Sonora, a connection that has been under surveillance for years by the cells of Aureliano Guzmán Loera, “El Guano”, and Fausto Isidro Meza Flores, “Chapo Isidro”, considered leader of the Guasave cartel. Both apparently are allies of “Los Mayos” in the war that sustains against the faction of “Los Chapitos”, which seeks to unlock drug trafficking towards the border via Baja California and Sonora. The clashes between these two factions have their epicenter in Culiacán, but they have spread to Mazatlán, Cosalá, the road to Sonora and the southern part of the state. Last August, the Ismael capo “El Mayo” Zambada was kidnapped by Joaquín Guzmán López and transferred to the US, which unleashed a new war inside the cartel of the cartel Sinaloa. In addition to leadership, the features fight hegemony in drug production in clandestine laboratories and border routes with the United States.