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Mexico's Obrador blames US for surge in cartel violence
Forensic investigators remove a body from the street in La Costerita, Culiacan, Sinaloa state, Mexico, September 19, 2024

MEXICAN President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (Amlo) blamed the United States on Thursday for the surge in cartel violence terrorising the northern state of Sinaloa which has left at least 30 people dead in the past week.

Two warring factions of the Sinaloa cartel have clashed in the state capital of Culiacan in what appears to be a fight for power since two of its leaders were arrested in the US in late July. Teams of gunmen have shot at each other and the security forces.

Meanwhile, dead bodies continued to pop up around the city. On one busy street corner, cars drove by pools of blood leading to a body in a car mechanic shop, while heavily armed police in black masks loaded up another body stretched out on a side street of the Sinaloan city.

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