The killing of 2 young brothers triggers a huge protest in the Mexican cartel of Bastion: “I want to live and not survive”

Thousands went out to the streets on Thursday to protest about the murder of two children in an attempt to torture in the problematic northwestern state of Mexico.

Mothers and children in school uniforms were among those who sought the end of the months of cartel violence that sometimes closed schools and companies in the State capital, Kuliacan.

A group of children made banners with slogans like “I want to live and not survive,” Agence France-Press said.

A small group of protesters forced its journey to the offices of Sinalo Gov. Rubén Rocha, destroying them and demanding his resignation. Rocha, a close ally of former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, could not control the violence of his state despite the troop deployment.

“We understand the anger of people,” said a spokesman for the state of Feliciano Castro, noting that federal authorities were investigating murders.

The Gael and Alexander Sarmiento brothers, at the age of 12 and 9, were also dead on Sunday when armed men tried to steal their vehicle. Two other minors were injured. The state authorities suggested that the darkened windows of the vehicle could be a factor, but it was not clear how.

March on Thursday organized a younger brother elementary school.

It was a great account of public anger for the city firmly in the grip of Sinalo. Culiacan has suffered the months of intense violence because two charts of cartels have been fighting for control of arrest last year in the United States Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada.

Zambada claimed that he was ambushed Joaquin Guzman LopezOne of the sons of “El Chapo”, who he said was lured him on a plane that headed to the United States, where “El Chapo” Serving a lifetime penalty.

At the beginning of Thursday, an explosion in the monitoring of a supermarket in Culiacan was damaged by a memory dedicated to Edgar Guzman Lopez, the son of “El Chapo”, who was killed in 2008. A car with a bullet was left nearby.

The war that is underway between “Mayos” and “Chapitos” has left Hundreds of people dead and hundreds of missing, according to the prosecutor. According to an indictment of the US Ministry of Justice, Chapitos and their cartel associates used plugs, electricity and hot chilli they are tormented by their rivals While some of their victims were “fed dead or living tigers.”

Bodies appeared throughout the city, often left kicked out on the streets or in cars with any cars sombreros on the head or slices of pizza or boxes on them with knives. Pizza and sombreros have become informal symbols for the warring fracture cartels, undergoing the brutality of their war.

During the course of the progress was one of The biggest challenges of President Claudia Sheinbaum since he took over the duty in October. Its administration under the pressure of US President Donald Trump is to reduce the smuggling of synthetic opioid fental to the United States, and Cartel Sinalo is one of the world’s largest illegal producers.

Due to the death of children this week he became online and encouraged on Thursday in March to be “more efused, emotional, very sad and much more difficult than other protests in the capital, said Estefanía López, Culiacan Valiente, a collective that has a collective Organized previous peace marches.

“It talked to his life, I think a lot of people woke up,” López said. “Zlaba … It was such that people went out today.”

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE contributed to this report.