”Culiacan is going through very difficult times. I ask everything, all of Culiacán, to stop these massacres, because Culiacán is a beautiful place, the people are hardworking,” Chávez told the media.
”I ask the cartels to stop, please, because people from other states are coming in to steal, to loot, to take advantage of the situation. “I ask the two cartels that are fighting to please stop, for Sinaloa,” added the former world champion.
Sinaloa, the birthplace of major drug lords, many of them detained in Mexico or extradited to the United States, has experienced strong clashes between criminal gangs in recent months.
The Government has sent thousands of soldiers to the area without success so far in achieving peace.
Since September 9, when there is a record of an increase in clashes between antagonistic criminal groups fighting over drug trafficking routes in Sinaloa, to date, authorities have reported around 500 homicides and hundreds of others missing.
The violence broke out after Ismael Zambada García, alias ”El Mayo”, was apprehended in the United States after the alleged betrayal of Joaquín Guzmán Loera’s children.
-With information from Reuters.
