In the middle of the night on February 13, in the
municipality of San Ignacio, Sinaloa, near the border with Durango, 13 people –
eight men and five women – were gunned down. An additional three gunmen were
killed in a shootout between armed groups on February 16 in Maloya, near Rosario, south of Mazatlán.
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| Shrine to Santa Muerte, near Sinaloa-Durango border, southern Sinaloa. |
Then, another five people were shot to death on February 21 in a bar in La Cruz de Elota, a town on the old Mazatlán - Culiacán highway –
including a federal police officer, who died after he was transferred to a
hospital in Mazatlán. The violence occurred during a concert at La Trova bar by
the band Enigma Norteño. This may be a matter of “drunken idiots with guns”,
and not cartel related, but it looks like people showed up for a fight.
Which is to say, things appear to be heating up in Sinaloa,
particularly in the southern part of the state, which is no stranger to mass
killings.
