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Mexican authorities person arrested Ovidio Guzmán, lad of notorious cause lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán, a root from the national authorities of Mexico told CNN, successful a melodramatic cognition successful the bluish authorities of Sinaloa connected Thursday that led to clashes astir the metropolis of Culiacán.
Guzmán is described arsenic “a high-ranking subordinate of the Sinaloa Cartel” successful a property merchandise issued by the United States State Department connected December 16, anterior to his arrest.
He was antecedently arrested by national authorities successful October 2019, but was released connected the orders of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to debar further bloodshed.
Chaos broke retired successful the metropolis astir Guzmán’s apprehension connected Thursday, with section officials telling citizens to structure astatine location amid clashes with cartel members successful assorted parts of Culiacán.
Social media videos look to amusement trucks connected occurrence and aggravated shooting adjacent the airport, which was closed for astir of the time owed to the violence. CNN has not yet verified these videos.
Passengers appeared to crouch for screen successful an Aeromexico level according to video shared connected societal media, which was deed by a slug portion grounded successful Culiacán.
No injuries were reported, said Aeromexico, which has canceled each its operations to and from the Sinaloan cities of Culiacan, Los Mochis and Mazatlan.
Culiacán International Airport closed aft Guzmán’s apprehension for information reasons, airdrome authorities said connected their Twitter account.
In a greeting code connected Thursday, President López Obrador said the cognition successful Culiacán had been underway since dawn.
As the apprehension unfolded, Sinaloa Secretary of Public Security Cristóbal Castañeda said that vehicles were being looted and blockades “are taking spot successful antithetic parts of the city” arsenic helium asked the nationalist not to permission the city.
The state’s acquisition caput besides announced that schoolhouse and administrative activities had been suspended successful Culiacán and urged those who are successful a hazard country to instrumentality refuge successful a harmless place.
The authorities of Sinaloa is location to the Sinaloa Cartel, 1 of the world’s astir almighty narcotics trafficking organizations. “El Chapo” was the person of the cartel earlier helium was sentenced to beingness successful situation successful 2020.
The apprehension comes days earlier US President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sojourn Mexico City to be the North American Leaders Summit.
Capturing Guzmán could beryllium a mode for López Obrador to amusement the US that helium is “in power of the equipped forces and Mexico’s information situation,” Gladys McCormick, a subordinate prof astatine Syracuse University who focuses connected Mexico-U.S. relations, told CNN successful an email.
“It besides defuses the powerfulness down immoderate inquire from the Biden medication to stem the tide of fentanyl and different narcotics crossed the border,” she added.
The State Department, which was offering a $5 cardinal reward for accusation starring to Guzman’s arrest, wrote that instrumentality enforcement investigations indicated that Guzmán and his brother, Joaquín Guzmán-López, “inherited a large woody of the narcotics proceeds” pursuing the decease of different brother, Edgar Guzmán-López.
They “began investing ample amounts of the currency into the purchasing of marijuana successful Mexico and cocaine successful Colombia. They besides began purchasing ample amounts of ephedrine from Argentina and arranged for the smuggling of the merchandise into Mexico arsenic they began to experimentation with methamphetamine production,” the State Department said.
The brothers are besides alleged to oversee an estimated 11 “methamphetamine labs successful the authorities of Sinaloa,” the State Department says.
Their begetter “El Chapo” Guzmán was convicted successful the US successful 2019 of 10 counts, including engaging successful a continuing transgression enterprise, cause trafficking and firearms charges. He was sentenced to beingness successful situation positive 30 years and ordered to wage $12.6 cardinal successful forfeiture.
Correction: This communicative has been updated to close Justin Trudeau's title.
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