#ovidio Guzman

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Free Baby Chapo

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Mexican authorities have captured Ovidio Guzman, the son of Drug kingpin Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzman

The Sinaloa cartel launched a violent response but security forces Contained the situation

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Detiene a Ovidio Guzmán hijo del Chapo

Detiene a Ovidio Guzmán hijo del Chapo

La información obtenida señala que Ovidio Guzmán, identificado como uno de los principales productores y distribuidores de fentanilo, y uno de los líderes del Cártel de Sinaloa habría sido capturado durante un operativo realizado esta madrugada en la comunidad de Jesús María. La presunta detención generó bloqueos en distintas vialidades de Culiacán, entre ellas, en las avenidas Constitución y…

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Najmanje 29 ubijenih tokom hapšenja El Čapovog sina

Najmanje 29 ubijenih tokom hapšenja El Čapovog sina

Foto: TRT Najmanje devetnaest osumnjičenih članova bande i deset vojnika ubijeno je u talasu nasilja tokom hapšenja pripadnika meksičkog narkokartela Ovidia Guzmana, izjavio je u petak, 6. januara, ministar odbrane Luis Cresencio Sandoval. Meksičke snage sigurnosti u četvrtak su uhapsile Guzmana, sina Hoakina “El Čapo” Guzmana, zatvorenog vođe zloglasnog kartela Sinaloa. Članovi kartela…

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Drug War 

Mexican forces firing from a helicopter against Sinaloa sicarios following the arrest of El Chapo’s son Ovidio Guzman this morning.

Ovidio Guzman, son of El Chapo and alleged major fentanyl trafficker, arrested in Mexico

Ovidio Guzmán, a top leader of the Sinaloa Cartel and the son of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán, the notorious drug lord currently serving a life sentence in a U.S. prison, has been arrested by authorities in Mexico, the country's secretary of defense, Luis Cresencio Sandoval, announced Thursday afternoon.

Guzmán was captured by Mexican armed forces in an overnight raid in a small town just outside the city of Culiacán, the capital of the Mexican state of Sinaloa.

He was transported by military aircraft from Culiacán back to Mexico City late morning on Thursday. Officials said the operation had been in the works for more than six months.

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De Comitán, militar abatido durante la captura de Ovidio “N”

El fin de semana le dieron el último adiós al elemento de la Sedena de 37 años; también llegó a Cacahoatán el cadáver de un joven miembro de la Marina ultimado en Sonora.

El fin de semana le dieron el último adiós al elemento de la Sedena de 37 años; también llegó a Cacahoatán el cadáver de un joven miembro de la Marina ultimado en Sonora. Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas.- Este fin de semana fue sepultado el cuerpo de Gabino Robles Morales, elemento del Ejército Mexicano asesinado durante el operativo de captura de Ovidio “N” en la localidad de Jesús María, municipio…

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January 5 2023, heavily armed Sinaloa Cartel Members man a roadblock in hopes of intercepting the caravan carrying the recently captured druglord Ovidio Guzman, failing to do so as he was taken off the city via helicopter. 

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Mexican drug lord El Mayo and son of El Chapo arrested in Texas

The US arrested Mexican drug kingpin Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada and the son of his former partner, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, in El Paso, Texas, Reuters reported.

Zambada is one of the most powerful drug traffickers in Mexican history and co-founder of the Sinaloa Cartel with El Chapo. The latter was extradited to the US in 2017 and is serving a life sentence in a maximum-security prison.

Both Zambada and Joaquin Guzman Lopez are facing multiple charges in the United States for smuggling huge shipments of drugs onto US streets, including fentanyl, the leading cause of death for Americans aged 18 to 45.

Zambada, about 70, and Guzman Lopez, about 30, were detained after landing on a private plane in the El Paso area, two US officials reported.

Guzman Lopez is one of four sons of El Chapo. They are known as Los Chapitos, or Little Chapos, and have inherited their father’s faction in the Sinaloa Cartel. His brother, Ovidio Guzman, was arrested last year and extradited to the United States. In recent years, the cartel has become a prime target for US authorities, who have accused the crime syndicate of being the largest supplier of fentanyl in the US.

US authorities have put a $15 million bounty on Zambada’s capture and a $5 million for Guzman Lopez’s head.

Sinaloa Сartel

According to US authorities, the Sinaloa Сartel smuggles drugs to more than 50 countries and is one of the two most powerful organised crime groups in Mexico.

Previous arrests of important cartel leaders triggered violence as a power vacuum emerged, resulting in serious infighting within the organisations, as well as between them and their rivals. Over the past year, US authorities have brought new charges against the sons of Zambada and Guzman for smuggling fentanyl, as well as for supplying precursor chemicals to illegal laboratories operated by their crime syndicate.

Over decades, the cartel has built sophisticated supply chains to move drugs around the world and supply highly regulated chemicals to its base in Sinaloa. US Attorney General Merrick Garland stated:

Fentanyl is the deadliest drug threat our country has ever faced, and the Justice Department will not rest until every single cartel leader, member, and associate responsible for poisoning our communities is held accountable.

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💥Battle Erupts on the streets of Culiacan in Mexico after the son of El Chapo Guzman, Ovidio Guzman, is Extradited to United States 💥

From an Al Jazeera report on the violence.

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MEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. government thanked Mexico for arresting a hyper violent alleged Sinaloa cartel security chief, but according to details released Friday, the detention may have been highly personal for the Mexican army.

Defense Secretary Luis Cresencio Sandoval said Nestor Isidro Pérez Salas, who was arrested Wednesday, had ordered a 2019 attack on an unguarded apartment complex where soldiers’ families lived.

“He was the one who ordered the attack ... against our dependents, our families,” Sandoval said.

The Oct. 17, 2019 attack was a result of a humiliating failed effort to capture Sinaloa cartel leader Ovidio Guzman, one of the sons of imprisoned drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. Pérez Salas served as head of security for Guzman and his brothers, who are collectively known as the “Chapitos.”

Soldiers caught Guzman but later were ordered to release him to avoid bloodshed.

In order to pressure the army to release Guzman, cartel gunmen had surrounded the army families' housing complex in Culiacan, the capital of Sinaloa, and sprayed it with gunfire. They took one soldier hostage, burst into four apartments looking for more potential hostages, and tossed in two hand grenades that failed to explode.

The army had apparently relied on an unwritten rule that soldiers' wives and children were not to be targeted. “It was an area that was not even guarded,” Sandoval said.

In January, when soldiers finally managed to detain Ovidio Guzman, Pérez Salas also allegedly participated in setting off violence that left 30 people dead, including 10 military personnel.

The army was forced to use Black Hawk helicopter gunships against the cartel’s truck-mounted .50-caliber machine guns. Cartel gunmen hit two military aircraft, forcing them to land, and sent gunmen to the city’s airport, where military and civilian aircraft were hit by gunfire.

Sandoval revealed Friday that there had been a special operation that day to get Pérez Salas, but it failed.

The army continued to follow his movements, and later tried to detain him a second time, but “he was able to escape,” Sandoval said.

The third time was a charm; video posted on social media showed that Pérez Salas was surrounded but managed to climb onto the roof of a house before he was caught Wednesday.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration had posted a $3 million reward for the capture of Pérez Salas, though it was unclear if that will be distributed to the army and National Guard forces that caught him this week.

President Joe Biden issued a statement Thursday praising the arrest. U.S. prosecutors have asked that Pérez Salas be extradited — as his boss Ovidio Guzman was in September — to face U.S. drug charges.

“These arrests are testament to the commitment between the United States and Mexico to secure our communities against violence, counter the cartels, and end the scourge of illicit fentanyl that is hurting so many families,” Biden wrote.

But it appears Pérez Salas's arrest was personal for the Mexican army.

“He was also responsible for a series of attacks against military personnel that caused a significant number of casualties,” Sandoval said.

Pérez Salas is wanted on U.S. charges of conspiracy to import and distribute fentanyl in the United States. But he also allegedly left a trail of killings and torture of police and civilians.

An indictment in the Southern District of New York says Pérez Salas allegedly participated in the torture of a Mexican federal agent in 2017. It said he and others tortured the man for two hours, inserting a corkscrew into his muscles, ripping it out and placing hot chiles in the wounds.

According to the indictment, the Ninis — the gang of gunmen led by Pérez Salas and Jorge Figueroa Benitez — carried out other gruesome acts of violence as well.

The Ninis would take captured rivals to ranches owned by the Chapitos for execution, it said.

“While many of these victims were shot, others were fed, dead or alive, to tigers” belonging to the Chapitos, “who raised and kept tigers as pets,” according to the indictment.

And while the Sinaloa cartel does some lab testing on its products, the Ninis conducted more grisly human testing on kidnapped rivals or addicts who are injected until they overdosed.

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¿Ovidio Guzmán ya es testigo protegido de Estados Unidos? Gobierno de AMLO responde https://www.infobae.com/mexico/2024/07/29/ovidio-guzman-ya-es-testigo-protegido-de-estados-unidos-esto-dijo-el-gobierno-de-mexico/

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Child soldiers of the Sinaloa Cartel manning an illegal checkpoint inside Culiacán, 2023 capture of druglord Ovidio Guzman.

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Ovidio Guzman

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Cultural consultant Alastor Guzman talks with and Senior Art Director Ovidio Cartagenaat at 12:58

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Looks like they got el chopos kid at Sinaloa airport, that and Mexico city is under lockdown cause the cartels are out on force. Anyupdats so far?

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Nineteen suspected gang members and 10 military personnel were killed in a wave of violence surrounding the arrest of Mexican drug cartel boss Ovidio Guzman in the northern state of Sinaloa, Defense Minister Luis Cresencio Sandoval said on Friday.

Mexican security forces captured Guzman, the 32-year-old son of jailed kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, in the early hours of Thursday morning, prompting hours of unrest and shootouts with gang members, the minister said.

Guzman was extracted by helicopter from the house where he was caught and flown to Mexico City, before being taken to a maximum security federal prison, Sandoval added.

The arrest spurred the powerful Sinaloa Cartel - once headed by El Chapo himself - to go on a rampage, setting vehicles on fire, blocking roads, and fighting security forces in and around Culiacan, the capital of Sinaloa.

Twenty-one other people were arrested during Thursday’s operations, Sandoval told a news conference, adding there were no reports of any civilian deaths.

President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said there were no immediate plans to extradite Ovidio to the United States, where his father is in a maximum security prison after being extradited in 2017 and found guilty in a New York court.

“The elements (of the case) have to be presented and the judges in Mexico decide,” the president said. “It is a process...It is not just the request.” No U.S forces had assisted in Ovidio’s capture, Lopez Obrador said.

An enhanced security presence will now remain in place in Sinaloa, on Mexico’s Pacific coast, to protect the public, with an additional 1,000 military personnel traveling to the region today, Sandoval said.

Passengers on an Aeromexico passenger flight at Culiacan airport crouched low below their seats as shots rung out around the runway on Thursday.

“As we were accelerating for take-off, we heard gunshots very close to the plane, and that’s when we all threw ourselves to the floor,” passenger David Tellez said. Aeromexico said one of its plane was hit by gunfire at Culiacan but that no-one was hurt.

The airport was due to reopen later on Friday after being closed due to the violence.

In 2019, a failed operation to arrest Ovidio ended in humiliation for Lopez Obrador’s government. At the time, security forces briefly detained Ovidio, triggering a violent backlash from cartel loyalists and leading authorities to quickly release him to stave off the threat of further retribution from his henchmen.

His latest capture comes before a North American leaders’ summit in Mexico City next week, which U.S. President Joe Biden will attend. Cooperation over security is due to be on the agenda.

THE EXTRADITION QUESTION

The United States has sought Guzman’s extradition for years.

In 2021, the State Department announced a $5 million reward for information leading to his arrest and conviction.

Guzman, known by the nickname “The Mouse,” has been charged in the United States with conspiracy to traffic cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana into the United States. The State Department said he oversaw methamphetamine labs in Sinaloa responsible for producing “3,000 to 5,000 pounds” of the drug per month.

The State Department also said information indicated he had ordered multiple murders, including that of a popular Mexican singer who had refused to perform at his wedding.

Surging flows of the synthetic opioid fentanyl into the United States, where it has fueled record overdose deaths, have heightened pressure to capture Guzman.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration considers the Sinaloa Cartel, along with one other gang, to be responsible for most of the fentanyl inside the United Sates. ______________________

Well then, that's a thing there isn't it.

50/50 on this thing kicking off a civil war in the cartel being a good or bad thing.