The Mexican city of Culiacan lived under drug cartel terror for 12 hours as gang members forced the government to free a drug lord's son, but in many parts of Mexico, the government ceded the battle to the gangs long ago. But in state after state, the Mexican government long ago relinquished effective control of whole towns, cities and regions to the drug cartels. They solve it quickly," said a young mother in the town of El Aguaje, in western Michoacan state. When a convoy of Michoacan state police did make a rare appearance in El Aguaje last Monday, they were ambushed and slaughtered by Jalisco cartel gunmen. The problem is that the government force is working in coordination with a vigilante group allied with a drug cartel.

Source: ABC News October 19, 2019 16:07 UTC