77% of all Mexicans list cartel violence as the most important problem facing the country.<p>Crowds of people in Culiacan may consider Guzman a hero, just like crowds of people in Medellin mythologized Pablo Escobar. The Sinaloa cartel kicks back money to the whole state, and Guzman is a hometown hero.<p>With Guzman at the helm, the Sinaloan cartel was also less violent to civilians than its competitors, particularly the Zetas.<p>The government of Mexico is among the most corrupt and least trusted in the world, and is itself implicated in the mass slaughter of groups of civilians.<p>It does not follow that Mexico as a whole, or even the state of Sinaloa as a whole, sees the Sinaloan cartel as a force for good. They are clearly not that.