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Weekly Report - 30 January 2025 (WR-25-04)

MEXICO: Sinaloa reaches breaking point

The killing of two young boys in Culiacán, the capital of the north-western state of Sinaloa, has served as the catalyst for protests against insecurity and government failings after nearly five months of violence in the state. Thousands took to the streets of Culiacán dressed in white on 23 January and again on 26 January to demand an end to the violence that has been afflicting the capital and wider state since September, fuelled by fighting between two rival factions of the Sinaloa drug trafficking organisation (DTO). Protesters also demanded the resignation of the state governor, Rubén Rocha Moya, of the ruling Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena), who has failed to quell the violence and has been accused of links with organised crime.

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