The request came after that first retaliatory measures carried out by members of drug cartels. “Accidents and roadblocks are happening in different parts of the city. We ask citizens not to go out,” Sinaloa Security Minister Cristobal Castañeda wrote on Twitter.
Also ordered Closure of Culiacan International Airport where, to protect the facility and after a civilian plane was shot at, two army planes also landed.
The operation that led to the arrest of Ovid GuzmanAlso known as “El Raton,” was carried out early Thursday morning by Mexican National Guard forces who surrounded the Jesus Maria neighborhood in the state capital Sinaloa, where “El Chapo’s” son had been sighted.
The details and the final balance of the operation have not yet been officially communicated, but according to images circulated on social networks and reposted by the media, Guzman’s arrest took place at the end of a fierce firefight Meanwhile, armed police helicopters also intervened and fired numerous shots from the sky.
with the father is serving a life sentence In a maximum security prison in the US, Ovidio Guzman had long controlled the Sinaloa cartel along with brothers Alfredo Guzman Salazar, Ivan Guzman Salazar nicknamed “Los Chapitos” and Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada Garcia.
“El Raton” was arrested in October 2019, but on this occasion the national government authorities decided to release him after very severe reprisals by the men of the cartel who set the city on fire. The episode known as “Culiacanazo” ended with the deaths of seven agents and one civilian, and with the escape of 47 inmates from the city jail at the end of a narco-led revolt.
The release of Ovid Guzman drew enormous criticism from the President’s administration Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and represents a black sheet in the fight against drug cartels.