After the arrest of drug dealer Ovidio Guzmán LópezSon of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, this Thursday January 5th, Already security analysts are wondering if the capture will actually lessen the serious problem of violence who lives in Mexico or it will ease the health of the United StatesHowever, the forecasts are not encouraging.
The images of the arrival of Ovidio Guzmán López in the Altiplano prison
In the early hours of January 5, the Secretary of Defense (Sedena) orchestrated a successful operation that culminated in the arrest of the son of the Sinaloa cartel founder, who was transferred to a maximum-security prison in the US state of Mexico
In the last three or four years, social organizations have figured out how fentanyl started flooding the drug market on the north-Mexico border.
Almost 2,000 homeless people died in the city from April 2020 to March 2021, an increase of 56% over the previous year, according to a report released by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. Overdose was the leading cause of death; more than 700 lost their lives.
Some books that can help to understand what is happening in Mexico with the capture of Chapo Guzmán’s son
After the events of the early morning of December 5 in Culiacàn and after the arrest of Ovidio Guzmán, these books were written after the first Culiacanazo.
Throughout 2022, the amount will be from fentanyl seized by the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). more than 370 milliona sufficient number to “kill all US citizens,” according to estimates by that institution’s director, Anne Milgram, director of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
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“Most fentanyl is traded by the Sinaloa and CJNG cartels it is mass-produced in secret factories in Mexico, with the chemicals mostly sourced in China,” the DEA explained in a Dec. 20 statement.
A federal judge has granted a stay of Ovidio Guzmán López’s extradition order to the United States
After the son of the founder of the Sinaloa cartel was arrested in an operation by the Secretary of Defense (Sedena), his legal defense attorneys filed Amparo in an Amparo District Criminal Court in Mexico City.
Fentanyl was developed as an analgesic for severe pain associated with conditions such as cancer. Use of this potent synthetic opioid, which is cheap to manufacture and often sold alone or mixed with other drugs, has increased exponentially. What It is 50 times stronger than heroin, even a small dose can be deadly.
According to the DEA, it has quickly become the deadliest drug in the nation. Two-thirds of the 107,000 overdose deaths in 2021 were attributed to synthetic opioids like fentanylindicated the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Ovidio Guzmán ventured into the drug trade after the assassination of his brother Edgar Guzmán, from whom he inherited his criminal business, investing large sums of money buying marijuana in Mexico and cocaine in Colombia and ephedrine in Argentina.
Thousands of young people have died from a fentanyl overdose in the United States, they remember a DEA memorial Photo: (DEA)
Along with his brother Joaquín Archivardo, “Ratón” is said to have overseen approximately 11 drug labs in Sinaloa that produce an estimated 3,000 (1,360 kilos) to 5,000 pounds (2,267 kilos) of methamphetamine per month, ending up in US and Canadian territory. most of time.
Why was Ovidio arrested, will the scene of violence and drug addiction change?
That said Juan Carlos Ayala, a professor at the University of Sinaloa who lives in Culiacan and studies the sociology of drug trafficking Ovidio Guzmán has been an obvious target since at least 2019.
“Ovidio was convicted. He was also tracked down as the biggest smuggler of fentanyl and He was the most visible operator of ‘Los Chapitos’He told the AP agency, naming the cartel faction he led with his brothers Iván Archivaldo and Alfredo
Ayala claimed soIn the population “there are conflicting opinions, but I think the majority is with them”, in relation to the cartel. That could be because of the money the criminal organization is bringing into the region, but also because of it The residents know that the federal troops will eventually leave, but the cartel does not. And despite their criminal activities, many say the group’s hegemony has ensured relative stability in the state.
However, the arrest of Ovidio does not really reduce drug production and distribution as he is just a small cog in the million dollar and corrupt million dollar drug machine, not just in Mexico but around the world.
Ovidio Guzmán was accused of drug trafficking by the United States in 2018. According to both governments Together with his brothers, he managed a large part of the criminal business his father along with the other founder of the cartel decades ago, Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada.
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Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard confirmed that the country had received a request for his detention pending extradition in September 2019, which now needs to be updated and further processed as Guzmán is also indicted in Mexico.
“There is no expedited procedure, we will send it to you there,” President López Obrador said on Friday rule out expedited delivery and mark the distances with past situations. “There is real rule of law here,” he added.
Ismael Bojórquez, director of the local newspaper Ríodoce, which specializes in drug trafficking, pointed out that the violent reaction was linked to the president’s less aggressive stance on organized crime.
“They (the cartels) have used these four years to organize, to arm, to strengthen their structures and their finances,” he said. “I think there are more guns today than there were three years ago. The organized crime armies have all been strengthened, not just Los Chapitos, and that is the price society is paying for this federal government strategy.”
The drug addiction situation in Mexico is getting worse
However, the situation in Mexico is no better than in its northern neighbor, and the government’s strategy is not exactly a combat strategy. In June 2022, at the ceremony marking the International Day to Combat Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, the head of the National Commission Against Addiction (Conadic), Gady Zabicky Sirot, said that Mexico must continue to advance models that are not based on an absolute ban on substances and include risk reduction strategies and harms that avoid discrimination and criminalization of drug users.
A mentally ill and homeless woman leans over a railing after wetting her hair at a drinking fountain in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles Monday, May 23, 2022. A controversial law signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom could improve this by forcing people with serious mental illnesses to seek treatment. But they need to be diagnosed with a specific disorder, like schizophrenia, and addiction alone isn’t enough to warrant treatment. (AP Photo/Jae C Hong)
For addiction care, he explained that it is important for countries to include the mental health approach, as is the case in Mexico, as this is the backdrop to problem use. “There’s an inescapable link between mental health and addiction,” he said.
The head of coordination of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Mexico, Mariana Alegret Cendejas, has published the World Drug Report 2022 with hopeless numbers.
That’s what the report says between 2010 and 2020 the use of psychoactive substances increased by 26%. In 2020, 284,000 adults used them at least once, mostly men, underscoring the increase in cannabis and amphetamine use. It was specified that not all drug users need treatment, “generally only 1 in 11 drug users would require treatment, although unfortunately not even this group has access to it”.
Two homeless addicts share a small dose of fentanyl in an alleyway in Los Angeles on Thursday, August 18, 2022. Use of this potent synthetic opioid, which is cheap to manufacture and often sold alone or mixed with other drugs, has increased exponentially. Two-thirds of the 107,000 overdose deaths in 2021 were attributed to synthetic opioids like fentanyl, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. (AP Photo/Jae C Hong)
The report also notes that in terms of demand lAmphetamine-type stimulants have become the main source of treatment in Mexico. Regarding opioids, it was reported that although heroin was the most prevalent in Mexico in 2020, the use of this type of substance is not common in the country: 0.1% of the population report having used it. However, greater consumption is noted in the north of the country.
Director-General of the National Commission Against Addiction Disorders (CONADIC), Evalinda Barrón Velázquez, reported that the National Strategy for Addiction Prevention (ENPA) is working on risk and protective factors in substance use through territorial diagnostics.
“Every state, every community, and even every neighborhood has risk factors and different protective factors, so communities need to be integrated into the strategies and policies,” he stressed.
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