Will Chalk
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
There's a small protest taking place outside the main cathedral on this beautiful sunny day in Kulia Khan.
Lots of relatives of the victims of the cartel violence are here.
They're wearing white.
Some are carrying pictures of their loved ones.
They're all sexes, ages.
It gives you a sense of how all-encompassing the violence is here.
The chant here is, they took them away alive, we want them back alive.
It's seven hours since the peace march, and the sun is setting here in Kuliakan, and they almost made it through the day without a killing, but just in front of me is a young man who's just been gunned down.
He's 16 years old.
He was on his bike.
He's wearing blue jeans, and he's got a light blue T-shirt on.
He's still tangled up in his bike.
He's lying dead there on the pavement.
Oh!
The family are here.
They're on the other side of the police tape.
I could hear the screams and wails from here.
It seems that the kid was shot 10 or 12 times.
The cartel is strong in this neighbourhood and uses young men as spotters.
Its spies are ever-present and no-one was willing to answer our questions.