Sinaloa warms to US strikes

A view of Culiacan, Mexico. Trump wants to strike cartels inside Mexico. In Sinaloa State, a cartel stronghold, some residents said they were willing to entertain intervention by the United States. — Adriana Zehbrauskas/The New York Times

ON the whole, Mexicans do not support President Donald Trump’s proposal of US military strikes against their country’s powerful cartels. Nearly eight in 10 Mexicans said they opposed the idea in a national poll last month.

But in one battered corner of northwestern Mexico, where the cartels have long operated, that resistance is beginning to crack.