Gunmen fired at least a dozen shots at the building of a major newspaper in Mexico's Sinaloa state. The attack comes as Sinaloa is the center of a fierce turf war between rival cartel factions. The Mexican government has largely avoided interfering, despite sending hundreds of soldiers to the region.
The attack occurred Thursday night outside an office in downtown Culiacán, Sinaloa. Eldebate There, two armed men in two cars pulled up. According to el debate Upon reporting, a gunman with a rifle got out of the convoy and walked to the front of the convoy. Eldebateand began firing indiscriminately at the building.
The bullets hit the front of the building and three vehicles parked outside. After the attack, the gunman walked back to his car and the convoy drove away.
Many international press freedom organizations continue to label Mexico as one of the most dangerous countries for journalists. As Breitbart Texas reported, these press freedom groups emphasize the impunity with which cartels and government officials target, attack, kidnap, and kill members of the media. are.
The violence comes as the entire state continues to feel the effects of a turf war between the Chapitos and Mayos factions of the Sinaloa cartel. As violence begins to spread to other parts of the country, Eldebate is one of the news outlets that continues to report on it.
As reported by Breitbart Texas, the turf war began on July 25 when Sinaloa cartel kingpin Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada was captured at the hands of his godson Joaquín Guzmán López. It was a direct result of that. Under the guise of a meeting with key politicians, Guzmán lured El Mayo to a ranch where he and a group of gunmen captured him, tied him up, put him on a plane, and flew him to a waiting U.S. agent in Texas. Since then, Guzmán's Chapitos relatives have been fighting Zambada supporters.
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