
As violence ramps up in the Mexican border city of Culiacan due to a power struggle between two strong cartel factions, residents put their hopes of safety and peace behind the Trump administration, which has vowed to crack down their influence in U.S. territory.
Culiacan as once quiet and relatively tranquil thanks to total domination from the Sinaloa Cartel. But that was until September, more than a month after Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada— the Sinaloa Cartel's oldest leader— said he was kidnapped by one of the sons of former leader Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman and taken to the U.S. where they were both arrested.