This Thursday, 100 elements of the Army Special Forces arrived in Culiacán to reinforce security in the midst of the drug trafficking struggle after the capture of Ismael ‘el Mayo’ Zambada.
“This morning, a group of Special Forces of the Mexican Army, from Mexico City, arrived by air to the city of Culiacán, with the purpose of supporting the personnel and deployment that authorities from the three levels of government maintain in this and other municipalities of Sinaloa,” reported the state Public Security Secretariat.
In a statement, the agency reported that the deployed elements arrived after the meetings held on Wednesday by authorities from the three levels of Government headed by the state president, Rubén Rocha Moya, and the secretaries of National Defense, Ricardo Trevilla and of Security and Citizen Protection, Omar García Harfuch.
“With this reinforcement carried out by the Federal Government, the areas of the state capital and other municipalities of the entity will be covered, with greater presence,” stated the state secretariat.
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The arrival of the military occurs a few days after the presentation of the security strategy of the Government of Mexico, based on addressing the causes and not returning to the “war against drug trafficking.”
In addition, it comes after almost a month of violence due to an internal dispute within the Sinaloa Cartel.
Before leaving power, on September 27, Andrés Manuel López Obrador minimized the wave of violence that Sinaloa is suffering and blamed the United States for its escalation, after the capture of Zambada.
Sheinbaum, who received power on October 1, promised to continue supporting the current governor Rocha Moya, who recognized that there are “generators of violence” in Sinaloa, but hoped that this will end with the support of Sheinbaum and the Army and the Security Forces. Security.
The federal government has deployed more than 2,500 Armed Forces agents in response to the violence, but the military has also suggested that the end of the clashes depends on the Sinaloa Cartel ending disputes among themselves.
With information from EFE
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