The terror of the narco and the question of a girl: "why?"

At first you barely perceive a "why?".

"Get down, get down," a man is seen to reply.

"Why, mom?", a girl's broken crying is heard again and dozens of people are seen trying to take refuge on the floor of an airplane, between the seats.

It is Aeroméxico flight 165 that last Thursday morning had to make the journey between Culiacán and Mexico City.

The aircraft, which was on the runway but had not started takeoff manoeuvres, was being fired upon.

As it had been almost at the same time a unit of the Armed Forces that was in Culiacán as part of the operation that captured Ovidio Guzmán,

, the son of El Chapo, the drug trafficker who, along with Pablo Escobar, you will have read, seen and heard more about in your entire life.

And, as much as that has happened, the images left by the battle for his arrest would never have been imagined.

As happened three years ago, Guzmán's hosts did everything possible to prevent their leader from being taken out of Sinaloa.

For practically a day, the power of the narco besieged Culiacán, a city of one million inhabitants, and other places in the State.

The morning began with confrontations between criminals and the military, with images of drug blockades, and the hours passed with images of terror that seemed to have no end.

Many came through social networks by journalists who, like Marcos Vizarra, literally risk their necks every day in one of the most difficult places to do journalism.

“I am inside a hotel north of the city of Culiacán.

About three hours ago they took my car and I took shelter here.

The armed men entered the Hotel named Two and are threatening clients so that they give them their car keys.

There are screams and cries, ”he tweeted, followed by a few messages in which he reassured and also assured that he would disconnect.

“To measure the size of the response of organized crime today in Sinaloa: 250 stolen vehicles in a period of 12 to 14 hours.

From 17 to 20 per hour, one every three minutes, approximately.

How many people does it take to do something like this? "Wrote, for his part, Adrián López, also a journalist from Sinaloa, director of

250 stolen vehicles in a period of 12 to 14 hours.

From 17 to 20 per hour, one every three minutes, approximately.

How many people does it take to do something like this?", wrote, for his part, Adrián López, also a journalist from Sinaloa, director of

250 stolen vehicles in a period of 12 to 14 hours.

From 17 to 20 per hour, one every three minutes, approximately.

How many people does it take to do something like this?", wrote, for his part, Adrián López, also a journalist from Sinaloa, director of

.

I am inside a hotel north of the city of Culiacán

About three hours ago they took my car and I took shelter here.

The armed men entered the Hotel named Two and are threatening clients so that they give them their car keys.

There are screams and cries

– Marcos Vizcarra (@marcosvizcarra) January 5, 2023

The power of the drug trafficker is all-encompassing in some parts of Mexico.

Living daily with horror does not mean getting used to it.

López himself wrote an article in this newspaper about the lessons that Guzmán's capture left behind and closed: “We don't know if the violence will continue, nothing guarantees that it won't.

But sooner or later, we Sinaloans will return to work, to school, to the street... because there is no other way and we have to live.

The question is how long will it take us to do it without fear again?

Hours later, and therefore thousands of

Later, he cried out on the social network: "Those who are of the opinion that we Sinaloans are "already used" to situations like those of yesterday and that we even "deserve it", there are two simple answers: 1. Nobody deserves or gets used to that fear;

and 2. They don't know Sinaloa.”

Using yesterday's events in Sinaloa to become pro-AMLO or anti-AMLO is very fucking.

Just think that yesterday ALL day we Sinaloans could not go out, study, work, take a bus or a flight.

It's called "loss of freedom" and there they go polarizing.

— Adrian Lopez (@AdrianLopezMX) January 6, 2023

The arrest of El Ratón, like that of any drug lord, leaves many questions on the way: how was the arrest, who collaborated, the balance it leaves, how is the Sinaloa Cartel, if Guzmán will be extradited... a long etcetera of questions that crowd

However, the most forceful, that of that girl who sobbingly asks her mother "why" while the bullets sound in the plane in which they were going to travel, she runs into, even in 2023, a resounding silence. in Mexico.