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Some 5,000 residents in Sonora, in an area about the size of Rhode Island, are caught between two drug gangs warring over what they consider the prime human smuggling territory bordering Arizona.
"The war escalated this summer when Beltran-Leyva cartel gunmen took over the string of pueblos and ranch lands stretching 50 miles from Altar to the Arizona border. Their foes in the Sinaloa drug cartel have since surrounded them. They patrol the four main winding roads leading in and out of the hills and block almost all food and gasoline shipments."
