7 killed in Mexico's most violent state despite capo arrest

9/8/2020 13:33

        Hopes that the recent arrest of a Mexican gang leader could calm the country's most violent state appeared dashed Saturday as the bullet-ridden bodies of seven men were found in a field and a rival drug cartel announced it was moving in.
        
        The central state of Guanajuato has been the scene of over 9,000 killings since the Santa Rosa de Lima gang and the rival Jalisco cartel started a turf war for control of the industrial state around 2017.
        
        There were hopes the violence might subside after the Aug. 2 arrest of Santa Rosa gang leader Jose Antonio Yepez Ortiz, better known by his nickname "El Marro."