By The Opinion
Dec 20, 2024, 08:12 AM EST
Since the wave of violence began in the Mexican state of Sinaloa due to clashes between the two most powerful factions in the Sinaloa Cartelhomicides and disappearances do not stop. In Culiacán alone, a disappearance is reported every 4 hours.
The war between Los Chapitos and La Mayizaderived from the arrest of Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada On July 25, it caused the disappearance of 750 people, according to an investigation by the Sinaloan newspaper Noroeste.
Likewise, since Joaquín Guzmán Lópezson of “Chapo” Guzmán, kidnapped his godfather to deliver him to the United States, until December 10 of this year, 601 homicides were committed in Sinaloa.
The state lived in “relative peace” because it was a single criminal group that dominated, and when that happened, “the security situation was ideal because there were no clashes between groups and that guaranteed security,” as the former president of Mexico previously expressed. , Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
Adrián López, director of Noroeste, and reporter José Abraham Sanz, carried out an investigation that revealed that In the wave of disappearances the victims are not only youngbut also middle-aged, elderly and even minor men.
The historical maximum of disappearances in the entity, registered in 2019, has been surpassed by the kidnappings and illegal deprivations of liberty that have occurred since September.
Search for bodies suspended due to fear
By far, the number of missing persons already exceeded those of that year, in which 1,319 disappearances were reported. In 2024 the number already reaches 1,434 cases, which is equivalent to 4.2 missing people every 24 hours or one every six hours.
Among the missing there are 68 minorsof which three were found dead. Noroeste reported that in Culiacán there are 399 records of disappearances; in Mazatlán 182, and in Navolato 44.
Groups searching for missing persons reported that on the days when the most reports are received, there are 10 records, and 4 has been the minimum number of cases. Due to the situation that prevails in Sinaloa, They have had to suspend their search for bodies due to fear of encountering criminal groups during their field work.
Two cases of young people have resonated recently: Emmanuel Garay Bernal, 20 years old, disappeared on October 11 in Mazatlán, whose mother, Ángeles, has demanded justice from the authorities “so that they give us our children back, we want them alive.”
The other case is that of Jesús Tomás Félix Félix, who disappeared on November 1 and whose family began a hunger strike in front of the Cathedral. In this regard, Governor Rubén Rocha Moya expressed that “the authorities are taking measures, but the results are not immediate… Progress has not been as fast as we would like. “We are working alongside federal forces to improve security and reduce violence, although we know there is still much to do.”
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