SEATTLE - Violence continues to rage on in northern Mexico with turf wars between factions of the Sinaloa cartel in the eponymous state and neighboring territories leading recently-inaugurated Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum to create a taskforce that has focused on sending additional army and National Guard personnel to the area.
As Mexico's armed forces continue address the situation, authorities announced the arrest of a high-profile leader of the Sinaloa cartel who was later identified as Edwin Antonio Rubio López, a.k.a. "El Max," in the rural community of Plan de Oriente, less than 10 miles east of Culiacán.
