Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador blames the United States in part for the violence in Sinaloa.

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Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the United States was partly responsible for the wave of violence in the state of Sinaloa, which has left dozens dead in the past two weeks, with bodies repeatedly found on public roads and highways.

López Obrador suggested at a news conference Thursday that Washington helped stoke enmity between factions of the Sinaloa drug cartel after arresting two cartel leaders in the United States.

On July 25, Sinaloa Cartel co-founder Ismael El Mayo Zambada was arrested along with Joaqun Guzmán López, son of drug lord El Chapo Guzmán, after landing near El Paso, Texas, in a small plane.

Zambada would later claim to have been ambushed and kidnapped by Guzmán López and handed over to U.S. authorities.

“A group of men attacked me, threw me to the ground and put a dark-colored hood over my head,” Zambada said in a statement released by his lawyer in August, adding that he was tied up and handcuffed and forced into the back of a van, driven to an airstrip and forced onto the private plane bound for the United States.

It remains unclear why Guzmán López surrendered to U.S. authorities and brought Zambada with him.

The Mexican president claimed that the US Justice Department had reached agreements with an organized crime group that led to Zambada's arrest, also calling the operation a kidnapping.

CNN has contacted the U.S. Department of Justice for comment on López Obradors' allegations.

U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar had previously denied that Washington was involved in the operation that led to Zambada's arrest.

“It was not an American plane, it was not an American pilot, it was not our agents or our people in Mexico. It was an operation between the cartels, where one was giving himself over to the other,” he said on August 9.

In the weeks following the arrests, violent clashes erupted in Sinaloa between what Mexican authorities call rival factions loyal to Zambada and those led by other sons of El Chapo.

The surge in violence has left at least 49 people dead since September 9, according to official figures.

The state attorney's office has reported numerous cases of bodies found with bullet marks on the streets, highways and other locations in Sinaloa.

The situation forced Governor Ruben Rocha Moya to suspend Independence Day celebrations last week and cancel classes at all levels for two days.

In Sinaloa there was not the violence that there is today, the Mexican president said Thursday.

However, López Obrador also denied that the situation in the state was completely out of control, insisting that Mexican authorities were managing it.

No, we are there, but we had to take special measures and move elements of the armed forces and we also lost officers who were killed because of this special and extraordinary situation, he said.

Mexican Defense Secretary Luis Cresencio Sandoval said Tuesday that at least two soldiers died last week in violence in Sinaloa.

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