Gruesome Display, Elaborate Sign, Random Victim

Los Chapitos tell me the victim had been missing for about a week and was picked up in the city, not in the mountains. According to them, he was not part of Churras’s group, and several people insist earlier claims linking him to that faction are false. They say the victim was from Guasave and may have had family connections, but was not an active member of any cell.

“Es obvio que ya tenían el letrero bien hecho y nomás les faltaba conseguir un cuerpo para acompañarlo.“

They also state the killing was meant to send a message and generate fear, not to carry out an operational objective. The body was deliberately left in a public place to create the appearance of control and to feed social media narratives. 

Translation of the sign, by Sol Prendido.

”Churras, here lies your second in command from your cartel of five people. Topa, you fucking traitor. Don’t bother just being an absolute clown online. This is the Calabazas cartel minus one individual. 

You big mouth cowards need to just come out and face that armed confrontation with us. Every one of you guys is going to fall once we snatch you up from wherever you hide. You’re not hurting us by hiding online like women and speaking ill of people. 

Topa, you fucking coward. You know damn well who all knows you for being such a weakling. You betrayed your own brother twice already. “

(Names shown on the sign:)

• Luis Ángel Sauceda Lugo (La Chicha)
• César Antonio Fuentes Lugo (Chorombo)