The Globe and Mail reports in its Tuesday edition that in Panuco, Mexico, a town near the sparkling Pacific resort of Mazatlan 10 employees of Vizsla Silver were abducted in late January. An Associated Press dispatch to The Globe says the bodies of five were located nearby and five more await identification. Most residents of these towns have fled out of fear as two factions of the Sinaloa cartel have been locked in battle since September, 2024. Others were "invited" to leave. The abduction of the mine workers under still unclear circumstances has raised fears locally and more widely generated questions about the security improvements touted by Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum. She signalled her more aggressive stance toward drug cartels in Sinaloa with captures and drug seizures after she took office in 2024. It has been one year since she sent 10,000 National Guard troops to the northern border to try to head off U.S. tariffs over the cartels' fentanyl trafficking, much of which comes from Sinaloa. Security analyst David Saucedo said Ms. Sheinbaum had tried to "manage the conflict" while the Sinaloa Cartel's internal war spread and split the state by obliging people "to take a side with one of the two groups."