WARNING: This video contains graphic images of stabbing and shooting victims, as well as images of people killed in street violence.
One of Mexico’s most powerful and feared criminal organizations has unleashed a wave of violence in 20 Mexican states. Drug lord Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, better known as “El Mencho,” died shortly after his capture during a bloody shootout in Jalisco.
Members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) have turned many of the towns and cities where the cartel operates into war zones.
BBC international correspondent Quentin Sommerville visited Culiacán in the northern state of Sinaloa, another Mexican cartel hotspot that has been at war with Mexican cartels since the removal of cartel leader Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada in 2024. He is currently in prison in the United States.
The BBC tracked down two Culiacan paramedics, Julio César Vega and Héctor Torres, who were caring for the victims after the violence. Héctor said the violence in Culiacán has never been so severe or continued for so long.
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