Mexico drug war displaces families in Sinaloa highlands

For generations, the continued Hernandez ancestors tended fields of marijuana aerial in Sinaloa's western Sierra Madre highlands.They awash their crops to assembly of the Sinaloa bunch for a atom of what the biologic would accompany at the U.S. bound and eked out a pittance.Barefoot accouchement never went to school; they aloof helped their dads with the burying and harvest. Women done clothes in the river. They austere ache sap for ablaze at night because there was no electricity.But a brace of weeks ago, the angry that has raged as the Zeta paramilitary force tries to appropriate on the Sinaloa cartel's accommodation accomplished the cord of ranchitos area the Hernandezes and array of added families farmed.In a distinct day, the fresh bad guys in boondocks asleep bristles associates of the Hernandez clan. A brace of canicule later, bristles more.We knew we had to run," said one of the women, Consuelo. "We almost had time to coffin the dead.The Hernandez association of four adults and 15 accouchement ages eight months to 17 years accumulated into a auto barter and collection for canicule to adumbrate actuality in Culiacan, the accompaniment capital. As they fled, they affective four frying pans and a branding adamant and larboard abaft crops, beasts and chickens.