The 2025-2026 school year begins in Sinaloa next Monday, September 1st. The main focus of the Sinaloa State Government at the start of the school year will be to ensure the public safety of the girls, boys, adolescents, women, and men living in Sinaloa. This includes all students, teachers, principals, administrators, parents, and everyone involved in school activities.
In a few days, on September 9th, the drug war in Sinaloa will mark one year. The state, at all levels of government, has been unable to stop the war between drug trafficking groups vying for control of the Sinaloa Cartel. The result has been bloody in this year, which has passed for Sinaloan society as a pandemic: nearly 2,000 violent homicides and nearly 2,000 forced disappearances. These thousands include girls, boys, adolescents, women, and men. Furthermore, individuals who had no involvement in organized crime were merely victims of crossfire or indiscriminate kidnappings of innocent people amidst the violence and public insecurity in Sinaloa.
The educational authorities of the Government of Sinaloa must strengthen coordination mechanisms with the various public security agencies to maintain the security of educational centers at all levels. Likewise, the public security committees must inform the entire Sinaloan community how they are reassuring all stakeholders in education in Sinaloa that there will be no public insecurity in Sinaloa for each and every student, teacher, and administrator in the public and private education sector.
On the Continuity of the Drug War
Last Friday, the media reported a violent and deadly day: four dead in a shooting in front of the Culiacán Civil Hospital, two dead in Tepuche, Culiacán, two dead inside a pickup truck in Navolato, one dead at a gas station in the Los Pinos area of Culiacán, and one dead in the 8 de Febrero neighborhood of Culiacán:
The news website Los Noticieristas published a description of the events at the Culiacán Civil Hospital on Friday night:
“Both the wounded and the deceased were in the emergency waiting area of the hospital when, suddenly, individuals traveling in a vehicle stopped in the middle of Álvaro Obregón and shot at those present repeatedly. After the armed attack, Jorge Armando, Rubén, and José Ramón were found dead inside the Civil Hospital. Víctor underwent emergency surgery by the on-call doctors. “The hospital, while young Brianna was transferred to the pediatric hospital with a bullet graze, and Heldia was taken to another hospital, where she remained hospitalized without disclosing her condition. During the shooting, the walls and facades of the medical institution suffered multiple bullet wounds, as did at least three vehicles parked outside…”
Furthermore, at 1:00 p.m. on the same Friday, armed groups of criminals unleashed a shootout in the parking lot of the Culiacán USE. Imagine, dear reader, the fear for their lives and the lack of public safety felt by the hundreds of users and employees of these units of the Sinaloa State Government:
The Sinaloa Prosecutor’s Office reported, on Saturday morning, that there were 11 intentional homicides last Friday. In addition, there are the notes that can be consulted, where the murders are reported, some even including the names of the dead. What federal, state, and municipal public security authorities should be asking themselves is whether this is the preamble to an escalation of violence and public insecurity in Sinaloa on September 9th. But, above all, there must be intensive and extensive work to prevent and protect schools starting Monday, September 1st, and greatly reinforced on Tuesday, September 9th. This cannot fail, as it could be fatal for many Sinaloa families.De regreso a clases y un año de guerra del narcotráfico en Sinaloa
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