Culiacan, Sinaloahas been under fire for ten days, the clashes between the racketeering have created panic in the city, where the shootingsroadblocks, burned cars and bodies appear almost daily in the town.
The state and federal authorities They have not yet determined when the peace to the city, since the confrontation between “The Mayos” and “The Chapitos” has not stopped since the arrest of Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada and Joaquin Guzman Lopezthe latter accused of allegedly handing the drug lord over to US authorities in exchange for a reduced sentence.
He Secretary of National Defense, Luis Crescencio Sandovalsaid last Tuesday during the morning conference that, although the Army maintains a security deployment in Culiacán, they are not sure when the violence will stop.
“We do not know the time of the confrontation, we will continue as long as it takes and if there is a need to reinforce or relieve, due to the intense work, we will relieve the troops“, said Crescencio Sandoval.
Tiktokers narrate the fear experienced in Culiacán
On social media, videos about the situation of violence experienced by inhabitants of Culiacanmore and more TikTokers are accumulating, describing the fear under which they live.
The user Delilah with H shared on his account the situation that citizens are going through, who practically feel kidnapped in their homes due to the fear to leave their homes and be victims of a cross-fire.
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“Drug violence is so normalized that even the president says we are exaggerating…but that is not the case. Those of us who are living here are seeing the consequences of impunity that has existed for centuries,” said the young woman.
With her voice breaking and tears in her eyes, Delilah lamented having to stay sheltered in her house and feeling like she was in a horror movie like “The Purge”.
“You go out on the street and you see people against each other, and you see the army convoys just passing by, instead of feeling safe, they pass by and frighten you, because they are not really doing anything. And the rest of us are locked up in the house, frustrated and extremely traumatized,” the TikToker added.
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Maggie López, another TikTok user, also shared with her followers that the tension experienced by the “culichis” is being minimized because they do not know when the tension will stop. wave of violence.
“Things are not good, the only thing we have left is to pray that all this violence and the people who are causing it leave us alone. Leave the people of Sinaloa alone. We are not well, we have been locked up for days, worried about our relatives who have to go out on the street,” shared Maggie.
Eddinho Pereira also shared on his social network images of the deserted streets in Culiacán, last September 9 at three in the afternoon, when the Governor Ruben Rocha Moya He asked the population not to leave their homes due to the insecurity. The young man regretted that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador was not even aware of what was happening in that part of the country.
For its part, this Wednesday, AMLO He said in his morning press conference that what is happening in Culiacán is violence induced by propaganda.
“The news about the violence in Sinaloa, as I said yesterday, is wrapped in propaganda of lies, sensationalism, and alarm, to induce fear in the population,” said the president.
Lopez Obrador He addressed the people of Culiacán to say that the Army was taking charge of the problems in the city.
“I take this opportunity to tell the citizens of Sinaloa that we are following up on the problem… there are elements of the Army in Sinaloa whose mission is to protect the civilian population and prevent the groups that are in conflict from confronting each other, and that is what we are doing, but our adversaries use this to intimidate. And I hope that little by little the situation will normalize in Sinaloa” he said.
The nine continuous days of violence in Culiacán have left 32 dead and companies such as In this same vein, several businesses and companies in Culiacán such as Costco, Coppel and Coca Cola have chosen to close or modify their hours due to insecurity in the region.