At around two in the morning on Monday, November 25 – just hours after my arrival in the city of Culiacan in the northwestern Mexican state of Sinaloa, home of the eponymous drug cartel – I ...

It isn’t the only new routine in Culiacan, a city of 1 million residents that for the past six months has been the battlefield for the two main factions of the Sinaloa drug cartel. The violence ...

Harfuch's words also come just days after Sinaloa ended November with nearly 175 homicides and after citizens in the municipality of Culiacan reported an explosion followed by a shooting in the area.