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00:00Heavily armed soldiers patrolled the deserted streets of Sinaloa's regional capital, while
00:07helicopters circled loudly overhead amid a fresh surge in cartel violence.
00:14Around 70 people have been killed since the start of the month in the northwestern Mexican
00:19state where rival gangs have engaged in a brutal and deadly power struggle.
00:25In recent days, the streets of the capital, Culiacan, have been stooned with dead bodies,
00:30pushing the federal government to deploy 600 troops to reinforce security in the area.
00:36The violence follows the arrest of Sinaloa Cartel co-founder Ismael Zambada, along with
00:41the son of former kingpin Joaquin El Chapo Guzman, on U.S. soil in late July.
00:47The arrest sparked rumors that Guzman had kidnapped Zambada to deliver him to U.S. authorities,
00:53a claim that was immediately rejected by the Guzman family lawyer.
00:57Yet Mexico's president also blamed the violence on the arrest, and partly on the United States,
01:03which he accused of making a secret deal with cartel members to capture Zambada.
01:08They reached an agreement.
01:15We still don't know what it was about or its conditions.
01:22Did it cause the confrontation in Sinaloa to break out?
01:30The U.S. ambassador rejected the allegations, instead pointing the finger to Mexico's history
01:36of insecurity and violence.
01:39President López Obrador, who's due to step down at the end of the month, has been accused
01:43of being soft on organized crime during his six-year tenure.