Expert Says Cartels Battling for Guadalajara
Reported by: Farrah Fazal
Last Update: 8:05 pm

GUADALAJARA, MEXICO - One of the safest places in Mexico is now in the middle of cartel warfare, and it’s going to affect all of Mexico.

Guadalajara used to be safe because the cartels and their families lived there. They didn't want violence in their neck of the woods. Now, all bets are off. The safe zone is now blood territory.

Sylvia Longmire is a former military intelligence officer and an expert on the cartels. She says it’s all-out war between the two most powerful cartels, the Sinaloa and the Zetas.

“It’s going to be tit for tat; it's a big concern this may be a new front being fought instead of the eastern or central now on the western,â€