What Just Happened In Mexico? The Disaster of Culiacan
On Thursday afternoon, October 17, one of the biggest stories in the ongoing saga of the Mexican Drug War occurred.
That day in the city of Culiacan in Sinaloa, police and soldiers from the Mexican government arrested Chapo “El Chapo” Guzman’s son, Ovidio Guzman.
And what happened next might as well have come right out of a movie.
Ovidio Guzman is not only El Chapo’s son, but a high-level trafficker in the Sinaloa Cartel who was indicted by the US Justice Department in February on drug trafficking charges.
When the cartel found out El Chapo’s son had been arrested and taken, they decided to act.
The cartel started fighting and causing mayhem all over the city to recapture Chapo’s son from the government. It looked like something you’d expect to see happening in Syria, not a Mexican city.
On Thursday in the Sinaloan city of Culiacan, the cartel gunmen were everywhere.
They openly drove in trucks with mounted machine guns, blockaded streets flashing their Kalashnikovs and burned trucks unleashing plumes of smoke like it was a scene in…
