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Cellphone chats have become death sentences in the continuing, bloody factional war inside Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel.

Cartel gunmen stop youths on the street or in their cars and demand their phones. If they find a contact who's a member of a rival faction, a chat with a wrong word or a photo with the wrong person, the phone owner is dead.

Then, they'll go after everyone on that person's contact list, forming a potential chain of kidnapping, torture and death. That has left residents of Culiacan, the capital of Sinaloa state, afraid to even leave home at night, much less visit towns a few miles away where many have weekend retreats.

"You can't go five minutes out of the city, ... not even in daylight," said Ismael Bojórquez, a veteran journalist in Culiacan. "Why? Because the narcos have set up roadblocks and they stop you and search through your cellphone."

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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 10 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Decoy phone, loaded with group chats with their mums

[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Believe it or not, straight to death.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 2 points 5 hours ago

Depends on the angle. You might be able to have their mother saying how much she loves and misses her son.

Then you get a golden ticket, the gang dissolves, and we have world peace