{"id":2036,"date":"2026-08-14T04:41:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T04:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commercialrelocationpros.com\/?p=2036"},"modified":"2026-08-14T04:41:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T04:41:35","slug":"what-i-saw-in-sinaloa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commercialrelocationpros.com\/?p=2036","title":{"rendered":"What I Saw In Sinaloa"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p><em><small>Sign up for our\u00a0<\/small><\/em><em><small>newsletter about national security<\/small><\/em><em><small>here<\/small><\/em><small>.<\/small><\/p>\n<p>L<span>ast Tuesday night,<\/span> I was eating sushi with a Mexican police chief in downtown Culiac\u00e1n, a city that had momentarily flickered back to life amid a bloody cartel turf war. At the table next to us was a birthday party. The police chief ordered a salmon roll. Through the window, I could see groups of families and friends walking on the sidewalk, past car dealerships and strip malls, after months of self-imposed lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialrelocationpros.com\/?p=2034\">Are the Patriot Games Great? No. Are They Fun to Watch?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Among them were three influencers who pulled up to a KFC down the street. They were dressed as food-delivery workers, carrying insulated bags on their backs, joking with one another and livestreaming everything with their phones. C\u00e9sar Gast\u00e9lum, the group\u2019s front man, had become famous for such innocuous pranks. Even as thousands were murdered by the cartels, Gast\u00e9lum, a stocky, bearded 24-year-old, posted videos of himself dancing in pajamas, dressing as a priest, sipping iced coffee. He had more than 700,000 followers on TikTok.<\/p>\n<p>It was this kind of incongruity that had drawn me to Culiac\u00e1n, the capital of Sinaloa. The city is the center of the fiercest and most consequential battle between armed groups in Mexico, and I wanted to untangle what was behind the surge of violence. From afar, it was difficult to tell whether someone like Gast\u00e9lum was proof that the mundane and the horrific could coexist here, as they have for decades across Mexico, or whether he was a symbol of something else\u2014the way drug cartels had quietly co-opted even the city\u2019s least likely protagonists.<\/p>\n<p>At about 8 o\u2019clock, Gast\u00e9lum and his friends were recording themselves waiting for their fried-chicken orders when two men on a motorcycle drove past. \u201cThose guys scare me,\u201d Gast\u00e9lum said. He then seemed to regain his calm, joking about his skinny jeans in front of the camera when the motorcycle returned. It stopped momentarily in front of the three young men. The driver, wearing a black helmet with a face shield, raised a gun about two feet from Gast\u00e9lum\u2019s head and fired. The livestream captured the moment of the bullet\u2019s impact and then went dark.<\/p>\n<p>Someone on the city\u2019s ambulance team texted me when the 911 call came in, and I ran across the street to the KFC. I got to the scene as police were arriving. Gast\u00e9lum\u2019s body lay at the drive-through\u2019s exit, a ribbon of blood streaming toward the sidewalk. A cluster of soldiers gathered nearby, some of them scrolling through Gast\u00e9lum\u2019s TikTok feed. A small group of crime photographers were taking photos and uploading videos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs you can see, they have killed another influencer here in Culiac\u00e1n,\u201d Jos\u00e9 \u00c1ngel Beltr\u00e1n of <em>Luz Noticias<\/em> said, narrating on Facebook Live.<\/p>\n<p>Culiac\u00e1n, for years the axis of Mexico\u2019s drug wars, is now the focus of a U.S. effort to demolish drug cartels\u2014something President Trump has said he\u2019s willing to use military force to achieve. It is in many ways an understandable target: The Sinaloa cartel, which has administered the state for decades, is responsible for trafficking millions of kilos of fentanyl, meth, and cocaine into the United States. The Justice Department has indicted both the Sinaloa governor and the Culiac\u00e1n mayor for cooperating with the cartel. Several of its leaders are serving life sentences in the U.S., and others have been targeted by Mexican security forces using intelligence from the United States.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, so far, these actions have only deepened the civil war between two Sinaloa-cartel factions, one run by the children and supporters of Joaqu\u00edn \u201cEl Chapo\u201d Guzm\u00e1n (the Chapitos), and the other run by allies of Ismael \u201cEl Mayo\u201d Zambada Garc\u00eda (the Mayos). In 2022, there were 476 homicides in Sinaloa. In 2025, it had 1,657. Government action against organized-crime groups in Mexico has almost always had such an effect\u2014increasing violence without significantly altering the flow of drugs into the United States. But the current Sinaloa turf war\u2014<em>la narcopandemia<\/em>, locals call it\u2014has created new categories of victims, far from the foot soldiers and hit men targeted in previous spasms of violence. Now influencers and content creators are recruited by cartels to distribute their messages online. And university and vocational students have been kidnapped, presumably because their skills are needed by criminal groups. Each time a young person here is killed or vanishes, there are immediate questions about whom he or she might have been working for. When drug traffickers allegedly subsidize TikTok dances, a victim\u2019s innocence can be almost impossible to discern.<\/p>\n<p>As forensic police arrived at the KFC, Beltr\u00e1n told me that another TikToker had been killed a few blocks away months earlier. A fitness influencer, El Tata, was murdered while leaving a shopping center. The body of a YouTuber, El Pinky, was found showing signs that he had been gagged and bound. About a dozen other influencers in Sinaloa have been killed, kidnapped, or attacked. Each time, the Mexican government investigated whether the influencers had somehow been linked to one group and targeted by the other. Last year, an unidentified plane dropped thousands of flyers over Culiac\u00e1n that accused a number of influencers and musicians of having ties to the Chapitos (Gast\u00e9lum was not on the list).<\/p>\n<p>Standing in front of the crime scene as the forensic police hovered around Gast\u00e9lum\u2019s body with flashlights, I asked Beltr\u00e1n why he thought a goofy livestreamer would be a target in a cartel turf war.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid you see that he was wearing a cowboy hat?\u201d Beltr\u00e1n asked me.<\/p>\n<p>Cowboy hats have become a symbol of the Mayos faction of the cartel. The implication was that Gast\u00e9lum, while performing juvenile pranks, had been making a subtle nod to one group\u2019s power. Online commenters rushed to make the same point.<\/p>\n<p>Beltr\u00e1n filmed one last video of Gast\u00e9lum\u2019s body as it was taken away, and then he tapped me on the shoulder. Another victim had been found half a mile away: a man shot in the city\u2019s botanical garden after a screening of a Lady Gaga documentary. I went with him to cover it. When we got there, it was dark, and the body was lit by a streetlight. Beltr\u00e1n took his phone out again and started streaming.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHello again, everyone,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s another rough night in Culiac\u00e1n.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>T<span>he next day, <\/span>I drove 30 minutes from downtown Culiac\u00e1n to a neighborhood called Costa Rica, on the outskirts of the city. I passed several motorcyclists who had their face covered by a ski mask. These <em>punteros<\/em>, as they\u2019re called, have for years worked as low-level informants for the cartel. Even before the fracture of Sinaloa, the cartel was famous for its capacity to monitor every inch of Culiac\u00e1n. In addition to deploying the <em>punteros<\/em>, it placed hundreds of cameras across the city and set up surveillance teams in residential neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialrelocationpros.com\/?p=2032\">Hunger Games, MAGA Style<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Mexican government has surged hundreds of soldiers and national guardsmen across the city, ostensibly to disrupt the criminal groups who have terrorized it. But the military presence is overwhelmingly performative. On the road to Costa Rica, I watched as <em>punteros<\/em> and soldiers nonchalantly drove past one another.<\/p>\n<p>I pulled up to the squat house of Marta P\u00e9rez Guzman, whose son, David Antonio Ruelas P\u00e9rez, had been kidnapped by armed men along with his classmate Jos\u00e9 Isa\u00edas Ibarra Duarte. There were 2,154 disappearances in Sinaloa last year, but the kidnapping of Ruelas, 22, and Ibarra, 23, had received more attention than most. The men were students at an aviation school in Culiac\u00e1n, and many here suspected that they had been abducted to work on cartel aircraft. There was another notable fact: Ibarra is a U.S. citizen, born in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>His mother, Graciela Duarte Valdez, had wondered whether that would be enough to nudge the U.S. government to act. After all, Trump had articulated in Truth Social posts and Fox News interviews his desire to intervene in Mexico. She had traveled to the closest U.S. consulate, in the neighboring state of Sonora, and made her case. Not only was her son still missing, but the Mexican attorney general\u2019s office had obtained surveillance footage of the kidnapping and showed it to her. Through tears, Duarte described seeing footage of four men who wore ski masks and carried rifles getting out of a minivan and forcing her son and Ruelas into a second car. It all took only a few seconds.<\/p>\n<p>She felt abandoned by the Mexican government\u2019s investigators, who asked questions suggesting that the boys had been working for a cartel faction before the kidnapping. When she went to the U.S. consulate, officials took notes and thanked her for coming (when I asked the State Department about the case, a spokesperson told me in a statement that it was \u201caware of reports of the kidnapping of a U.S. citizen in Mexico\u201d but did not elaborate). Duarte was despairing; she knew that just a small fraction of disappeared people were later found alive in Sinaloa. One day last year, she heard that Governor Rub\u00e9n Rocha Moya was visiting her neighborhood. She ran to meet him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease help,\u201d she told the governor, as she held a missing-person poster with her son\u2019s photo and name on it. Rocha told her he would try.<\/p>\n<p>A few months later, Duarte was skimming her Facebook feed for information about missing people and recovered bodies when she saw a news story that said Rocha had been indicted by the United States for colluding with the cartel. The U.S. government had acted, but she could not bring herself to see the move as productive or helpful. Rocha temporarily resigned and fled Culiac\u00e1n. The Mexican government announced that it would support him until the U.S. showed more evidence of his collusion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll I could think was that I had begged that man for help,\u201d Duarte said. \u201cBut of course, he did nothing. He had been working for the cartel the whole time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A<span>bout a third of Mexico<\/span> is controlled by organized criminal groups, according to a U.S.-government analysis. Culiac\u00e1n\u2014even during its most peaceful stretches\u2014has been a prime example. The cartel presence here has never been subtle. One man in his early 20s told me that his childhood friends had been recruited to work in fentanyl labs and would return smelling like chemicals for weeks. The children of cartel kingpins enrolled in the city\u2019s top prep schools. In one cemetery, families of deceased cartel operatives erected graves the size of suburban homes. Each time the cartel\u2019s fractures sent the city into spirals of violence\u2014in 2010 and 2017\u2014they ended the same way: not with the disintegration of organized crime but with one faction emerging as the victor.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration believes that it can avoid repeating this pattern, partially by going after Mexican politicians who support the cartel\u2014\u201call the government officials that are part of the \u2018Culiac\u00e1n clan,\u2019\u201d Sara Carter, the director of the White House\u2019s Office of National Drug Control Policy, told a journalist earlier this year. The U.S. has also continued its decades-long strategy of targeting top cartel operatives, largely by funneling intelligence to elite Mexican-military units who have conducted a number of successful operations. That partnership is deeper than it has been in years. But I didn\u2019t meet anyone in Culiac\u00e1n who believes that the strategy will reduce violence here. So far, it hasn\u2019t reduced drug flows, either. Even officials in the Mexican government who are in favor of attacking criminal groups privately dismiss the Trump administration\u2019s absolutist goal of eliminating cartels, given the enormous demand for drugs in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn Day one, President Trump designated major cartels\u2014including Sinaloa\u2014as Foreign Terrorist Organizations, unlocking powerful sanctions, asset seizures, and enhanced prosecutorial tools to crush their operations. We will not allow cartels to profit off of poisoning our children and grandchildren,\u201d Lauren Bis, a White House spokesperson, told me in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>As C\u00e9sar Gast\u00e9lum\u2019s body was buried last week, some of the city\u2019s influencers posted tributes to him, as if describing a fallen comrade. \u201cWe need to take care of ourselves,\u201d one wrote to his 2.3 million followers. Even Mexico\u2019s president weighed in, promising to find the assailants. Duarte had followed the news. Gast\u00e9lum was just a year older than her son.<\/p>\n<p>But she was following another story more closely. The government had detained a dozen young alleged cartel operatives in a rural area outside Culiac\u00e1n. It published photos of the boys and men, their faces blurred. Many of their T-shirts were off, revealing skinny frames. Duarte zoomed in on one of them. It was hard to tell, but he looked at least a little bit like her son.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialrelocationpros.com\/?p=2030\">U.S. Vaccine Guidance Is a Mess<\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. is trying to destroy Mexican cartels. 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