Behind Mexico's drug trade and the search for solutions
How Sinaloa confronts its divided soul offers insight into where the drug war may be going for Mexico, where more than 5,000 people have been killed in drug-related violence this year.

By Tracy Wilkinson

Los Angeles Times



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With a hand on his sidearm, a Culiacán police officer examines a truck riddled with bullets by a drug faction. The wounded or dead had been taken away before police arrived. Culiacán is the capital of Sinaloa state, home to top leaders of Mexico's drug trade.


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"It used to be ... I could raise my hand in the road and stop an 18-wheeler," says Sinaloa police officer Pedro RodrĂ*guez, shown with his son. "Today the truck would run right over me."




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