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<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-24206ecef07d4402bdd55070eea6f8b9" style="color:#892222;font-size:14px"><strong>WARNING: Graphic Content </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4fe253410df8a7479dc166a0125dee66" style="color:#321e1e;font-size:14px"><strong>Four decapitated bodies were found hanging from a bridge in the capital of western Mexico&#8217;s Sinaloa state on Monday </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-232ead4ec48578d1b3c845b78fcbe379" style="color:#321e1e;font-size:14px"><strong>This reportedly, is part of a surge of cartel violence that killed 20 people in less than a day </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-0f10fcfccba49456b256b7a184e22adc" style="color:#321e1e;font-size:14px"><strong>Outcome of bloody turf war between bloody war for control between two factions of the powerful Sinaloa Cartel since the cartel boss El Chapo Guzman was extradited to US and jailed </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d52a3a6b9c74fa709579ba4e4935af39" style="color:#321e1e;font-size:14px"><strong>Conflict which exploded last year between the two groups: Los Chapitos and La Mayiza has since <strong>has turned the city of Culiacan into an epicenter of cartel violence</strong></strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2a9e8105f01cbaa584ca34baf977fd89" style="color:#321e1e;font-size:14px"><strong><strong>Los Chapitos, led by the sons of notorious drug lord Joaquín &#8216;El Chapo&#8217; Guzmán Salazar, reportedly desperate to win the internal civil war has gone into alliance with long-time rival Jalisco New Generation Cartel </strong></strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-fc4fa048170a978eb1c5e76eff8bb6aa" style="color:#321e1e;font-size:14px"><strong><strong>To confront the boost acquired by the Los Chapitos faction&#8217; two of their rival organizations, La Mayiza and the Guasave Cartel, formed an alliance, escalating the current wave of violence in Sinaloa</strong></strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-37f7af7acd29b95eb3ff4548b88b4bd5" style="color:#321e1e;font-size:14px"><strong><strong>Dead bodies appear littered across Culiacán on a daily basis, homes are riddled with bullets, businesses shutter and schools regularly close down during waves of violence </strong></strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-889537054648577093ca8f376f249063" style="color:#321e1e;font-size:14px"><strong><strong>Masked young men on motorcycles watch over the main avenues of the city</strong></strong></p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>Four decapitated bodies were found hanging from a bridge in Culiacán</strong>, <strong> the capital of western Mexico&#8217;s Sinaloa state on Monday as the internecine battle for control of the territory rages between factions of the Sinaloa Cartel </strong></p>



<p>Four decapitated bodies were found hanging from a bridge on Monday in Culiacán, the capital of state of Sinaloa, part of a surge of cartel violence that killed 20 people in less than a day according to reports from the western regions of Mexico.<br>A bloody war for control raging between two factions of the powerful Sinaloa Cartel has turned the city of Culiacán into an epicenter of cartel violence since the conflict exploded last year between the two groups: for control of the region<br>On one side is the Los Chapitos faction led by Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar. <br>The Los Chapitos, under the control of the sons of notorious drug lord Joaquín &#8216;El Chapo&#8217; Guzmán Salazar, increasingly desperate to win the civil war within the cartel since their father&#8217;s incarceration reportedly has allied with long-time rival, Jalisco New Generation Cartel. <br>On the other side of the Sinaloa death spiral is another alliance between the La Mayiza faction led by Ismael Zambada Sicairos, &#8216;aka &#8216;El Mayito Flaco&#8217; and the Guasave Cartel led by Fausto Isidro Meza Flores, aka &#8216;Chapito Isidro&#8217;.</p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>The bodies were left with a note [image], which while incoherent, has the chillingly line: &#8216;WELCOME TO THE NEW SINALOA&#8217; in capital letters</strong></p>



<p>Residents of Culiacán wake up to dead bodies appear littered across the city on a daily basis. <br>Homes are riddled with bullets, businesses shutter and schools regularly close down during waves of violence. Masked men on motorbikes watching over the main avenues of the city is a common sight. <br>In the wake of the turf war, Sinaloa state prosecutors announced Monday, that four bodies were found dangling from the freeway bridge leading out of the city, their heads in a nearby plastic bag.<br>A white van abandoned o the same highway was packed 16 more male victims with gunshot wounds. One of them was decapitated. <br>The bodies were left with a note, apparently from one of the cartel factions, the announcement revealed, adding that the rather incoherent note includes the chillingly line: &#8216;WELCOME TO THE NEW SINALOA,&#8217; written in capital letters.</p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>With Mexico&#8217;s top drug lord Joaquin &#8216;El Chapo&#8217; Guzman now spending his days in a US maximum security facility, the Los Chapitos faction led by his sons in a desperate move to win the internal civil war in the Sinaloa cartel, has allied with long-time rival Jalisco New Generation Cartel</strong></p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Ivan-Archivaldo-Guzman-Salazar-1.png" alt="" class="wp-image-481223"/></figure>



<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>The Los Chapitos faction is led by Ivan Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar, [photo], 41, the eldest son of El Chapo Guzmán. When security agents tried to capture him in January, like his father he escaped police capture through a tunnel</strong></p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>Los Chapitos has been engaged in a bloody tussle for control with La Mayiza faction led by Ismael Zambada Sicairos, &#8216;aka &#8216;El Mayito Flaco&#8217; [left], and the Guasave Cartel led by Fausto Isidro Meza Flores, aka &#8216;Chapito Isidro&#8217; [right]</strong></p>



<p>Most in the western Mexico state, however, say authorities have lost control of the violence levels.<br>A bloody power struggle erupted in September last year between two rival factions, pushing the city to a standstill.<br>Commenting on the wave violence sweeping the state Monday, Feliciano Castro, spokesperson for the Sinaloa government condemned the violent killings, calling on authorities to examine their strategy for tackling organized crime given the &#8216;magnitude&#8217; of the violence ravaging the region.<br>&#8216;Military and police forces are working together to reestablish total peace in Sinaloa,&#8217; Castro said.<br>The turf war was triggered by the dramatic kidnapping of the leader of one of the groups by a son of notorious capo Joaquín &#8216;El Chapo&#8217; Guzmán who then delivered him to US authorities via a private plane.<br>Since then, intense fighting between the heavily armed factions has become the new normal for civilians in Culiacan, a city which for years avoided the worst of Mexico&#8217;s violence in large part because the Sinaloa Cartel maintained such complete control.</p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>Cartel related killings is now a daily occurrence since the extradition and incarceration of El Chapo in the US created a power vacuum in Mexico&#8217;s western state of Sinaloa, among the incidents, </strong>t<strong>his white vans stuffed with murdered male victims left on a highway in Mexico&#8217;s Sinaloa state</strong></p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>Local authorities officials found 16 male victims with gunshot wounds, packed into the white van. One of the men had been decapitated</strong></p>



<p>The arduous task of conducting the factional war has forced El Chapo&#8217;s sons to ally with its adversary, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel. <br>Los Chapitos have reportedly agreed to hand over swathes of its territory in exchange for money and weapons, which it is burning through in its fight against La Mayiza. <br>One high-ranking member of the Sinaloa Cartel said Los Chapitos were in desperate need of funds. <br>&#8216;Los Chapitos were gasping for air, they couldn&#8217;t take the pressure anymore,&#8217; he said. <br>&#8216;Imagine how many millions you burn through in a war every day: the fighters, the weapons, the vehicles. The pressure mounted little by little.&#8217;</p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>The Los Chapitos are led by the sons of &#8216;El Chapo&#8217; Guzmán, two of whom &#8211; Joaquín Guzmán López and Ovidio Guzmán &#8211; have been in US custody for the past couple of years </strong></p>



<p>To confront the boost acquired by the Los Chapitos faction&#8217; two of their rival organizations, La Mayiza and the Guasave Cartel, formed an alliance, which has generated the current wave of violence in Sinaloa.<br>La Mayiza insist that El Chapo’s sons have betrayed the codes and trampled on their own allies.<br>Consolidating power to bring the spreading violence under control by either side appears to be a long term prospect as some sources believe the risky trade offs could severely hamper the Sinaloa Cartel&#8217;s ability to traffic drugs, as control over territory is crucial to secure routes from production to distribution sites. <br>This development leaves the much sought control of the region in free fall.</p>

Mexico’s drug wars! Decapitated bodies hang from a bridge in Sinaloa, 20 slaughtered in in one day – the latest massacres in the internal cartel strife pitching El Chapo’s sons against former allies
