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The state of Sinaloa is the birthplace and home of some of Mexico's most infamous narcos.
So, many ask, why President Felipe Calderon hasn't tried to clean it up during his 5-year war on narcos.
There are only a couple hundred federal police there...while thousands were sent to Chihuahua and his home state of Michoacan.
Even a member of Calderon's own party is outraged. "It has been a safe state for organized crime to live there and work there and develop with total tranquility," Congressman Manuel Clouthier charges.
Notorious narco capos Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman and Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada are thought to be protected by corrupt officials and hiding in its or Durango's mountains.
In Sinaloa "part of it is the perception that legal activity and illegal activity has become so blurred. There is pressure from the legitimate economic interests who don't want their economic interests to be touched," an observer said. "There is a broad sense that there is a lot of money laundering and visible activity related to drug trafficking that has not been fully addressed or combated."
