http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2021/07/magdalena-sonora-four-days-of-gunfights.html

For multiple days, the municipality of Magdalena de Kino, located in northern Sonora has has intermittent outbreaks of shootings occurring allegedly between members of rival cartel groups. Citizens have been updating social media with videos taken of the gunfights taking place in close proximity to civilians, with bullets indiscriminately hitting churches and public spaces.

Friday, July 23, 2021

On Friday, footage of sicarios engaging in gunfights in mountainous areas emerged on social media. The videos are alleged to have been filmed over the weekend in northern Sonora. However some outlets say that as early as Thursday the gunfights began between rival cartel groups.

Warning: Graphic video, male with head gunshot wound visible.

Saturday, July 24, 2021

On Saturday, more video footage taken by hitmen involved in shootouts in mountainous regions emerged online. Hitmen inside vehicles are seen using radios to communicate, sending urgent warnings to each other through comms as well as barking out orders to the fellow hitmen nearby. The video below is safe to watch, no graphic content.

Sunday, July 25, 2021

More clips of citizens reacting the violence in Magdalena emerged online. In some video recordings the voices of terrified children can be heard who are spooked when they see the hitmen pass by.

Monday, July 26, 2021

Outlets are reporting that the shootings are continuing in Magdalena today, July 26, 2021 though few specific details are available yet.

No government official or newspaper has made claims as to the cartel affiliations involved in these conflicts so far. However Debate alleges these conflicts are due to an internal dispute between factions of the Sinaloa cartel, on one side elements loyal to Ismael Zambada "El Mayo", on the other side elements loyal to Los Chapitos, the sons of El Chapo.

Acting on behalf of Chineese government

https://www.courthousenews.com/chinese-company-accused-of-stealing-dupont-secrets-loses-bid-to-toss-case/

(CN) The Ninth Circuit denied a bid by a consortium of Chinese companies to evade responsibility for the theft of trade secrets by invoking diplomatic immunity.

A three-judge panel ruled that a lower court properly denied a motion to dismiss filed by Pangang Group Company and other Chinese-based companies who invoked immunity as stipulated by the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.

U.S. Circuit Judge Daniel Collins, a Donald Trump appointee writing on behalf of the majority, said Pangang Group Company failed to establish they are a “foreign state” as established by the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act and therefore are not covered by its provisions, which may or may not absolve companies from the alleged conduct.

That's the way the CIA rolls

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/dan-bailey-cia-tucker-carlson/

Bailey, according to the International Business Times, did work in 2009 as a river ecologist for the Asia Foundation’s (TAF) ‘Securing Our Future’ project” in Mongolia. TAF was in fact established by the CIA as a non-profit in 1951 as part of an effort “to undertake cultural and educational activities on behalf of the United States Government in ways not open to official U.S. agencies.”

A 2017 article based on declassified documents from Muckrock, however, argues that TAF “has engaged in a decades-long campaign to misrepresent its origins, purpose, and funding” in order to hide its role as a “propaganda machine and a front for covert activities including psychological warfare.”

Yet no available evidence suggests Bailey, who is now a Yellowstone Program Manager at National Parks Conservation Association, was ever a direct employee of the CIA or even aware of the CIA’s ties to TAF, let alone that the confrontation was part of some devious clandestine plot.