such clashes continue to plague Mexico. Cartels employ an increasing array of tactics, including roadside bombs or IEDs, trenches, home-made armored vehicles and bomb-dropping drones. Last week, López Obrador publicly asked Sinaloa's warring factions to ...

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is asking the warring factions of the Sinaloa cartel terrorizing the capital city of Culiacán to act "responsibly” so no one else gets killed.

The violence was ignited by the July arrest of reclusive Sinaloa cartel leader Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada in Texas, Lopez Obrador said. He also said the “instability and clashes” that Sinaloa was now facing were the result of the arrest in what he said was a “totally illegal” operation.