Actually the government of the president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador I had no choice. The capture or recapture of Ovid Guzman López, alias El Ratón, son of Joaquín Guzmán Loera, was a matter of time.
There are at least four reasons why the Mexican government might not release one of the three Chapitos.
1) With the arrest and subsequent release of Ovidio on October 17, 2019, the Culiacanazo, the Mexican government and the Army showed serious deficiencies in their intelligence and operational capabilities. They did not measure the reaction of Iván and Alfredo Guzmán Salazar, the other two sons of “El Chapo”, located as the Chapitos. Then the Mexican government chose to give in to the pressure of criminals and set a painful precedent.
2) Ovidio became an icon of the deficient strategy of the federal government, and following that day the three brothers were strengthened. There is clear evidence that one of the cells began operations in Mexico City but was withdrawn by the local government, and in Culiacán the Chapitos increased control of drug dealing and illegal businesses: there is no slot machine that does not have permission from minors, as they are also called. In other areas of Mexico they also strengthened.
3) The United States has not stopped with its pressure on Mexico. The strongest drug tragedy in that country is due to the sale of fentanyl, and the authorities have turned to see Mexico, particularly the Sinaloa Cartel, as responsible.
And Sinaloa is precisely the area where the production of fentanyl has been detected the most.
4) In THE UNIVERSAL We published, with information from the Army obtained by GuacamayaLeaks, that most of the fentanyl pills that are seized by air come from Sinaloa, and in a response that the authority gave me via transparency, it is reported that of the 24 tableting machines for fentanyl pills fentanyl seized by the Ministry of National Defense, 16 were found in Culiacán and 8 in Tijuana. They are the only ones.
In reality, the federal government had no choice, it had to remove that enormous thorn called Ovidio Guzmán López.
Maybe it’s a good time to try to regain control of the security of a country on fire.
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