Heavily armed cartel fighters surrounded security forces and made them free one of drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman’s sons, whose brief apprehension triggered intense gun battles across the city of Culiacan.The patrol was quickly overpowered by cartel gunmen, however, and the decision was taken to withdraw to protect the lives of the National Guard and restore calm in the city, where gangsters had set up roadblocks and were unleashing heavy automatic gunfire, Durazo said.
Heavily armed cartel fighters surrounded security forces and made them free one of drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman’s sons, whose brief apprehension triggered intense gunbattles across the city of Culiacan.
Security Minister Alfonso Durazo said a patrol by National Guard militarized police first came under attack from within a house in the city, 600 km (370 miles) northwest of Mexico City.
After entering the house, they found four men including Ovidio Guzman, who is accused of drug trafficking in the United States.
The patrol was quickly overpowered by cartel gunmen, however, and the decision was taken to withdraw to protect the lives of the National Guard and restore calm in the city, where gangsters had set up roadblocks and were unleashing heavy automatic gunfire, Durazo said.
“The decision was taken to retreat from the house, without Guzman to try to avoid more violence in the area and preserve the lives of our personnel and recover calm in the city,” Durazo said.
The chaotic scenes in Culiacan, long a stronghold for the Guzmans’ Sinaloa cartel, will increase pressure on President Lopez Obrador, who took office in December promising to pacify a country weary after more than a decade of drug-war fighting. Murders this year are set to be at a record high.
The scenes in Sinaloa follow the massacre of more than a dozen police in western Mexico earlier this week, and the killing of 14 suspected gangsters by the army a day later.
El Chapo’ Guzman led the Sinaloa cartel for decades, escaping from prison twice before being arrested and extradited to the United States. He was found guilty in a U.S. court in February of smuggling tons of drugs and sentenced to life in prison.
He is believed to have about 12 children including Ovidio. The U.S. Department of Justice unveiled an indictment against Ovidio and another of the brothers in February, charging them with conspiracy to distribute cocaine, methamphetamine, and marijuana in the United States.
The indictment gave Ovidio’s age as 28, and said he had been involved in trafficking conspiracies since he was a teenager.
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The narcos took it out on innocent bystanders. They killed many until they released Ivan.
No difference. Governments are also cartels. All of them, including the one at the Vatican! If akina Chapo, Al Shabab, Mafia, name them, were to govern over the people humanely…
As Trump said, shithole country… Mexico is a shithole country
The mafia and crime cartels are in all countries and they all play there role officially and unofficially for the politicians, civil servants and business leaders. The only difference between Mexico and usa drug gangs is that usa keeps it underground away from the surface while in Mexico it has exploded into the open.
What’s fueling drug cartels in Mexico and south america is usa market. The money is astronomically big, enough to fund a well armed private army, gang administration and even social services in the area they govern. Mexico and usa agencies play two crucial roles. One, they enforce arrests for dealing and crime. They also collaborate with them to avoid an all out war in the streets and areas they control in Mexico and usa. With that collaboration comes deals, corruption and collusion. That’s why the drug trade will never end in the usa. A lot of arrests and seizures are preplanned or agreed. Drug payments are huge and cartel don’t feel it. What is a $10 million or $100 million payout if they are making billions to a point of burying the cash. The streets of mexico openly trade drugs, in the usa they hide the trade. However the operations are the same. Streets are curved up. Mexican cartels, blacks, various Latinos groups, rednecks, Irish, Italian etc. Each has their territories and enforcers. Gangland countries.
Kenya is a lot peaceful my friend.
Narcos s4 happening
el chapo Sn3
i bet CIA/FBI/D.E.A is entangled in this fiasco but behind the curtains,they can bazooka this ka-chapo boy if they want to from a backyard toolshed equiped with a drone controller operated by a 19 yr old girl sipping on carrot and ginger juice all the way from rural nimmesota,but the rammification of such happennings are detrimntal to their sales in arms to the cartels so wanaona wacha tu,haiwahusu vile sana
This will happen in KE too.
Eeeeeh.pana cheza.
He just signed his death warrant.
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There’s no money like drug money