Detangling the cartel web


Investigators collecting evidence at a crime scene in a residential neighbourhood in Culiacan.

A CARTEL leader is scrambling to protect his family in case of a US military strike in Mexico. Another has gone into hiding. Two young men who produce fentanyl for the cartel have shut down their drug labs.

A series of arrests, drug seizures and lab raids in recent months has struck the Sinaloa cartel hard, according to Mexican officials and interviews with six cartel operatives.

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