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Mexican authorities discover 20 bodies, some decapitated, on Sinaloa
highway
By Ivonne Valdés and Michael Rios, CNN
Updated:
6:45 PM EDT, Mon June 30, 2025
Source: CNN
Prosecutors in northern Mexico’s Sinaloa state are investigating the
discovery of 20 male bodies with gunshot wounds – including five that
were decapitated – on a bridge over a federal highway.
Local media reported that a message was also found hanging over the
bridge in Culiacán. The prosecutor’s office told CNN it had no
comment on the message but would investigate.
Sinaloa Secretary General Feliciano Castro Meléndez called the case a
“regrettable situation” and said it was “part of the violence and
insecurity that Sinaloa is experiencing.”
Since 2024, Culiacán has been the epicenter of armed clashes between
rival factions of the Sinaloa cartel.
Two of the most prominent factions are La Mayiza, which is loyal to the
cartel’s alleged co-founder Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, and Los
Chapitos, which is loyal to the sons of former drug kingpin Joaquín
“El Chapo” Guzmán.
‘Los Chapitos’
The violence in Sinaloa escalated after Zambada and one of El Chapo’s
sons, Joaquín Guzmán López, were last year by US authorities in El
Paso, Texas.
An official familiar with the operation told CNN at the time that
Guzmán López had organized his arrest along with that of Zambada by
luring him on a flight to examine a piece of land he thought was in
Mexico. Instead, the plane landed in El Paso, Texas, where federal
agents arrested them both.
Former Mexican Secretary of Security Rosa Icela Rodriguez said Guzmán
López had reached with one of his brothers, Ovidio Guzmán López, who
is in US custody, “So that they would go to the United States to
surrender.”
However, an attorney for Ovidio told CNN that Rodriguez’s claim was
“a complete and utter fabrication.” An attorney for El Mayo said he
“neither surrendered nor negotiated any terms with the US
government” and described the flight to the US as a violent
kidnapping.
Ovidio had been extradited to the US in September 2023 to face drug
trafficking charges over his alleged role in the Sinaloa cartel. Days
after his extradition, he pleaded not guilty to the charges in a US
court.
But in May, he reached an agreement to change his plea, according to a
court document reviewed by CNN.
Later that month, several members of his family as part of an apparent
“negotiation or plea deal opportunity provided by the (US) Department
of Justice itself,” Mexico’s Security Secretary Omar García
Harfuch said.
Two other sons of El Chapo, Ivan Archivaldo and Jesus Alfredo Guzmán
Salazar, are still at large. The US has accused them of leading
large-scale drug trafficking operations for the cartel and has issued
$10 million bounties for information leading to each of their arrests.
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