Twenty dead bodies discovered in Mexico, including corpses hanging from bridge

Culiacan, which has around 1 million residents and is the capital of western Mexico's Sinaloa state, has been wrought by a war for control between two rival drug trafficking groups of the Sinaloa cartel – Los Chapitos and La Mayiza. In a statement at the time, the U.S. Treasury Department said the group facilitates the production and trafficking of fentanyl. "Los Chapitos is a powerful, hyperviolent faction of the Sinaloa cartel at the forefront of fentanyl trafficking in the United States," Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said last month.

Author: Sophia Compton

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