(21 May 2025)
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Culiacán, Mexico – 19 May 2025
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1. SOUNDBITE (English) Megan Janetsky, The Associated Press:
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"We are here in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico, where there’s been an explosion of violence in the past eight months as warring factions of cartels have fought for power. That’s had a huge toll on human life but it has also had a toll on animal life. We are here in this reserve that is currently in the process of moving hundreds of animals across the state. They just said it’s gotten too violent to continue on."
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3. Various of animals being transferred inside containers and crates
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Megan Janetsky, The Associated Press:
"Staff members have gotten robbed, they’ve received a constant stream of death threats, threats that they (organized crime) will kill the animals and that they will burn the place down."
5. Various of elephants drinking water
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Megan Janetsky, The Associated Press:
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"In another case, an elephant got their foot hurt and they had no medical professionals that were willing to come and treat them, so it’s just turned into an unsustainable situation and that situation has kind of become emblematic of the violence that it’s gotten so bad that it’s rippled out to so many other parts of society here and um we’re here following this process."
7. Various of lion being transferred into crate
STORYLINE:
An animal sanctuary in the northern Mexican city of Culiacan has been forced to move their 700 animals as violence from criminal warfare has seeped into daily life.
A pack of veterinarians clambered over hefty metal crates on Tuesday morning, loading them one by one onto a fleet of semi-trucks.
Among the cargo: tigers, monkeys, jaguars, elephants and lions – all fleeing the latest wave of cartel violence eclipsing the city of Culiacan.
The caravan of semi-trucks departed Tuesday on a ride of more than 200 km to the coastal city of Mazatlan.
For years, exotic pets of cartel members and circus animals have been living in a small animal refuge on the outskirts of Sinaloa’s capital.
However, a bloody power struggle erupted last year between rival Sinaloa cartel factions, plunging the region into unprecedented violence and leaving the leaders of the Ostok Sanctuary reeling from armed attacks, constant death threats and a cutoff from essential supplies needed to keep their 700 animals alive.
They’re the latest to flee a wave of cartel violence eclipsing the city.
The final straw was when one of its elephants injured its foot and no specialist wanted to travel to the city to treat her.
Leaders of the sanctuary said their flight from the city is another sign of just how far the warfare has seeped into daily life.
The aid organization’s trucks carried animals from Culiacan hours in a convoy across the state to seaside Mazatlan. They hope they can escape the brunt of the violence.
Though fighting has grown so widespread in the region that many fear it will inevitably catch up.
AP Video shot by Fernanda Pesce
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