Criminal organizations such as drug cartels tend to seek to replace state functions in territories they control, including welfare. Such is the case of Fausto Isidro Meza Flores, a drug lord known as "Chapo Isidro" did just that in the Sinaloa municipality of Los Mochis, whose cartel reportedly handed over food and toys during Christmas.
Images circulating on social media and picked up by Infobae show boxes with logos tied to the cartel and reading "Merry Christmas." The organization led by the "Chapo Isidro" is not part of any of the two factions of the Sinaloa Cartel, currently engulfed in a bloody turf war since early September.
