Criminals shot at the newspaper’s headquarters The Debate in the Mexican city of Culiacán, the scene of a war between factions of the Sinaloa cartel, authorities reported this Friday 18th, who reported no casualties.
The fight between the two groups has already caused the death of almost two hundred people in the state of Sinaloa since the beginning of September, six of them on Thursday 17th, during a new violent day that included the attack on the newspaper.
According to the Sinaloa Security Secretariat, unknown assailants opened fire on the newspaper’s premises on Thursday night. Four long gun shots hit the facade and several others damaged four vehicles.
This Friday the 18th, a man left a toy pistol at the newspaper’s premises in the municipality of Guasave, which is also in Sinaloa.
“An attack on freedom of expression,” the governor of Sinaloa, Rubén Rocha, told journalists, who ordered the reinforcement of the police presence at the headquarters of the newspaper, which has been in circulation for 70 years.
O Mexico It is considered by press organizations to be one of the most dangerous countries for practicing journalism, with around 150 communicators murdered since 2000.
The war in Sinaloa intensified after the arrest, on July 25, in New Mexico (United States), of the co-founder of the Sinaloa cartel Ismael “El Mayo” Zambadawho claimed he was kidnapped in Mexico and handed over to American officials against his will.
Zambada, 76, was detained along with Joaquín Guzmán López, son of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, who is serving a life sentence in the United States. The heir of “El Chapo” would have handed over Zambada in search of legal benefits for himself and a brother who is also in prison.
Zambada appeared in court again this Friday, where he was informed that he could be sentenced to the death penalty, as he was detained in American territory, although it is the highest judicial authorities that must decide on his execution.
