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Mexican security forces flee after cartel gunmen launch WAR to release El Chapo’s son at drug lord’s bastion Culiacan (GRAPHIC)
18 Oct, 2019 03:32 / Updated 45 minutes ago
A burning bus, set alight by cartel gunmen to block a road, is pictured during clashes with federal forces following the detention of Ovidio Guzman, son of drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, in Culiacan, Sinaloa state, Mexico October 17, 2019 © Reuters / Jesus Bustamante
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In order to protect lives, Mexican authorities were forced to release the notorious drug lord Joaquin El Chapo Guzman’s son after heavily armed cartel gunmen launched an assault against security forces holding their alleged boss.
Ovidio Guzman was briefly arrested after federal police patrol came under fire from a house where he was holed up with three others on Thursday afternoon. Once the cartel learned the drug lord’s son had been apprehended, groups of armed criminals began attacking police all over the city with heavy firepower, blocking roads and setting vehicles on fire.

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Multiple burning vehicles after an earlier firefight
#Culiacán

Jimmy@JimmySecUK
More cartel reinforcements heading to
#Culiacán, including another up-armoured technical armed with an M2 .50 Cal machine gun.
Many of these technicals appear to have armoured windshields as well.
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The gunmen surrounded the house where Guzman had been nabbed
"with a force greater than that of the patrol," Security Minister Alfonso Durazo said.

Natalia Sandoval@curiousnats
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To all those people who love to ask me about growing up in Culiacan. Who binge-watch all those narco shows and romanticize the capos. This is the reality of it. What real people in the real world have to endure.
#Culiacan #PrayForCuliacan
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The attacks were so vicious that authorities opted to
“suspend our actions,” lest the city degenerate further into a war zone.

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Cartel gunmen cruising around
#Culiacán, Mexico, in an up-armoured technical armed with an M2 .50 cal machine gun (!!!)

Jimmy@JimmySecUK
Another video from
#Culiacán, this time a cartel gunman using a high calibre sniper rifle (very possibly a Barrett Browning M82) against Mexican police/armed forces
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However, the original raid on Guzman's hideout was anything but a 'routine patrol,' multiple reports alleged. Several videos show that police initially arrived at the cartel's compound in the city of Culiacan in full force – armed officers on foot, even trucks and jeeps with mounted weapons.

Maria Elena Morera@MaElenaMorera
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Ni era patrullaje de rutina, ni se toparon por pura casualidad con el hijo del chapo.
Sr Durazo, su versión no es creíble, estas imágenes hablan por si mismas
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Yet masked gunmen working for the kingpin apparently overpowered them, trading heavy gunfire that left
“blazing vehicles strewn across the street” and forced locals to take shelter in schools and supermarkets as shops closed to avoid the violence.
Dead bodies lie next to a car during clashes between Cartel gunmen and federal forces following the detention of Ovidio Guzman, son of drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, in Culiacan, Sinaloa state, Mexico, October 17, 2019. © Reuters / Jesus Bustamante
Authorities of El Chapo’s home state of Sinaloa had no other choice but to release Guzman, in order to
“protect lives,” the minister emhasized.

David Wolf@DavidWolf777
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Mexican soldiers being overthrown by
#Sinaloa cartel members at a toll booth in
#Culiacán during today's shootouts. Soldiers had to shake hands with them. Who's really in charge in Mexico?
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However, several other cartel-linked individuals were detained and wounded, Secretary of Security of Sinaloa Cristobal Castañeda told El Financiero, adding that local authorities worked with the National Guard, the Army, and the Navy on the operation.
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Joaquin El Chapo Guzman was sentenced to life in prison in the US in February for trafficking tons of illegal drugs and organizing a murder conspiracy, among other charges.
Dead bodies lie next to vehicles during clashes between cartel gunmen and federal forces following the detention of Ovidio Guzman, son of drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, in Culiacan, Sinaloa state, Mexico October 17, 2019 © Reuters / Jesus Bustamante
As the boss of the most powerful cartel in Mexico, he ran an enormous and complex international operation, moving drugs through tunnels and a fleet of vehicles with hidden compartments – even smuggling cocaine inside cans of jalapeno peppers.

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Intense fighting has erupted in
#Culiacán, where masked gunmen threw up burning barricades and traded gunfire with security forces after the arrest of one of the sons of the jailed former leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel “El Chapo"
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The notorious Sinaloa Cartel boss bribed Mexican officials – including, allegedly, former President Enrique Pena Nieto – and prison guards, allowing him to escape from his first federal maximum security prison in 2001. He managed to escape once again in 2015, through a mile-long tunnel under his jail cell constructed by cartel engineers.
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His sons, Ovidio and Ivan Archivaldo, have allegedly been running the family business since El Chapo was extradited to the US in 2017. Ismael ‘’El Mayo” Zambada, the
real leader of the Sinaloa cartel according to El Chapo’s lawyer, is believed to be feuding with the pair.
Cartel gunmen stand outside a store during clashes with federal forces following the detention of Ovidio Guzman, son of drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, in Culiacan, Sinaloa state, Mexico October 17, 2019 © Reuters / Jesus Bustamante
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