The macabre lottery of violence in Sinaloa
Ah, Culiacán… where the air smells of fresh seafood, Sinaloan banda and, lately, unburned gunpowder. In another episode of “What is the state’s fault?”, five young men decided – well, rather someone decided for them – to star in the last episode of this tragic soap opera that we call “public security”.
First act: The extreme sport that nobody asked for
Three boys (José, Fernando and Juan Antonio, because even in death we deny them the right to a full name) were enjoying a pleasant conversation next to a sports field. The problem? Someone mistook their meeting for a moving target at a shooting range. The motorcycles present – an indispensable element in any crime worth its salt – completed the picture. One tried to flee, because of course, who wouldn’t run when they’re shot with weapons that probably cost more than their entire colony’s budget?
The authorities, meanwhile, “initiated investigations”. Translation: they wrote down the names in a notebook that they will later lose among the 3,247 pending cases of the year.
Second act: Housing is no longer a right, it is Russian roulette
Meanwhile, in the Lázaro Cárdenas neighborhood (irony of fate, the revolutionary general must be wallowing in his mausoleum), another young man – this one not even with the posthumous privilege of a name – discovered that the walls of his house were as effective against bullets as cellophane. The neighbors, experts in ballistics from their own experience, presume that “something must have been done.” Because in Mexico, the presumption of innocence is as solid as Oaxaca cheese.
Third act: The messenger of death
To close with a flourish (or lead, rather), the fifth victim arrived packaged as a macabre birthday gift in Colinas del Rey. Tied hand and foot, with their respective note of “this happens to you…” – because even criminals now give constructive feedback. Who said that drug trafficking does not have quality standards?
While the statistics continue to add up bodies as if they were points in a video game, the authorities remind us that “they are working”. Working on what, exactly, is the mystery bigger than the origin of the universe. Will they prioritize these cases? Or will they go straight to the file of “crimes that shocked no one”?
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