Part 7/12:
Despite government denials, investigators traced military-style weapon serials back to diverted U.S. military surplus, suggesting that veterans or ex-contractors associated with the Angels may have played crucial roles in the conflict. The official story was that it was cartel infighting, yet the scale and organization pointed toward a far more deliberate, paramilitary act of resistance and retribution.
The Rising Tide of Reprisal and Myth
Revenge from the Sinaloa cartel was swift and brutal. Mexican safe houses were raided indiscriminately, and suspected cartel enforcers began to die under mysterious circumstances, marked by ritualistic signatures like a flaming skull with angel wings—a macabre signature linking back to the combatants' symbolic universe.