Mexico: Marine Efforts to Capture Guzman Spark Fear in Area Residents

2015-10-21 1

While the latest attempts by Mexican marines to capture the world's leading drug lord, Joaquin El Chapo Guzman, have failed to achieve their objective, they have sparked fear among residents in the rural mountainous regions of the states of Sinaloa and Durango. Local residents charge that marines have shot at them and their homes and destroyed cars and property. Hundreds have been forced to flee and eight residents are reported missing. teleSUR