BBC on streets of Mexican metropolis gripped by lethal cartel violence
Warning: This video accommodates graphic imagery of the victims of stabbings and shootings, in addition to pictures of these killed in road violence
One of the crucial highly effective and feared prison organisations in Mexico has unleashed a wave of violence throughout 20 Mexican states, following the dying of drug lord Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, higher generally known as “El Mencho”, shortly after being captured amid a bloody firefight in Jalisco.
Members of the Jalisco New Era Cartel (CJNG) have turned many cities and cities the place the cartel is energetic into warfare zones.
BBC worldwide correspondent Quentin Sommerville travelled to Culiacán in northern Sinaloa state, one other Mexican cartel hotspot at warfare with itself after the elimination of its cartel chief in 2024, Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, who’s now in jail within the US.
The BBC adopted two paramedics in Culiacán, Julio César Vega and Héctor Torres, who attend to victims following violent incidents. Héctor stated the violence in Culiacán had by no means been so unhealthy or gone on for thus lengthy.
