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Violence Fills El Chapo Vacuum
The arrest and removal of the world’s deadliest drug kingpin, El Chapo Guzman, has only exacerbated the drug-related violence in the Sinaloa, the area controlled by Mexican drug cartels. Guzman’s arrest has created a vacuum of leadership in the Sinaloa cartel and has left various factions fighting to fill it. In Culiacan, the Sinaloan capital, businesses have been forced to close early and school classes have been
suspended due to the daily murders which abound. “It is a nightmare, but one we have lived many times before,” said Rosita Méndez, a mother of two young children who lives in Culiacan. While El Chapo’s sons are seeking to become the heirs to their father’s empire, the kingpin’s former lieutenant, former state police official Dámaso López, aka “El Licenciado” or “the Graduate,” is heading up a rival faction which is looking for control. So far, Lopez has murdered El Chapo’s sister and has wounded two of his children in his quest for power. “It appears that we are seeing a generational transition from El Chapo to his sons,” said Alejandro Hope, an independent security expert in Mexico City. “It is the greatest such power shift within the organization for many years, and all is breaking loose.” In January alone, 2,152 murders were documented in Sinaloa. There is fear that the recent violence is just the tip of the iceberg. Some assume that Lopez has recruited the help of other cartels in order to gain power in the Sinaloa. It’s suspected that Lopez has forged an alliance with the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, a breakaway organiza-
tion that once functioned as a paramilitary wing of El Chapo’s group and is now competing with them for trafficking routes and territory, analysts say.
Russian Journalist Poisoned – Again
What’s the best way to know that you’ve been poisoned? Well, if you’re a Russian journalist who has been poisoned before by the government,
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then you should be pretty familiar with the symptoms. Vladimir Kara-Murza, a journalist who has been a vociferous opponent to Vladimir Putin’s government, woke up one morning in February and knew he had just minutes to save his life. “The heartbeat was just getting faster and faster, and I could feel it,” he said. “I started having trouble breathing and it was very painful. It felt like no air is coming out, like I was suffocating. “I knew straightaway what it was because this was the second time in two years that this happened, and it – and it began almost identically in the same way,” he said. After being rushed to a hospital in Russia and contacting the same doctor who saved his life just two years earlier from another poisoning episode, Kara-Murza survived. The journalist vows to get back on the case of cracking Russian government corruption, regardless of the consequences. He feels that his work is doing a great service to society, which can prevent the abuses carried out by Vladimir Putin and his ilk. “It is similar to what we had back in the Soviet days. We have media censorship. We have no free and fair elec-
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