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| El Chapo: gun battles erupt in Mexican city amid reports of son's arrest | El Chapo: gun battles erupt in Mexican city amid reports of son's arrest |
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| Intense fighting has erupted in the Mexican city of Culiacán, where masked gunmen threw up burning barricades and traded gunfire with security forces amid rumours that one of the sons of the jailed former leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán had been arrested. | Intense fighting has erupted in the Mexican city of Culiacán, where masked gunmen threw up burning barricades and traded gunfire with security forces amid rumours that one of the sons of the jailed former leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán had been arrested. |
| Images shared on social media showed trucks with mounted heavy machine guns patrolling the city streets; another clip showed a gunman with an assault rifle shooting at an unknown target against a soundtrack of continuous gunfire. | Images shared on social media showed trucks with mounted heavy machine guns patrolling the city streets; another clip showed a gunman with an assault rifle shooting at an unknown target against a soundtrack of continuous gunfire. |
| #ULTIMAHORA Detienen al hijo de El Chapo Guzmán, Iván Archibaldo Guzmán, lo que está ocasionando una fuerte balacera en #Culiacán #Sinaloa en esta ciudad pic.twitter.com/MjqqLsu3sx | #ULTIMAHORA Detienen al hijo de El Chapo Guzmán, Iván Archibaldo Guzmán, lo que está ocasionando una fuerte balacera en #Culiacán #Sinaloa en esta ciudad pic.twitter.com/MjqqLsu3sx |
| Local media also reported that at least one of the main roads out of the city towards the port of Mazatlán was blocked by a barricade of burning trucks, while others were closed by the army. | Local media also reported that at least one of the main roads out of the city towards the port of Mazatlán was blocked by a barricade of burning trucks, while others were closed by the army. |
| Así las cosas al norte de #Culiacán. Momentos exactos de la balacera captados por el compañero reportero Policiaco, Ernesto Martínez. pic.twitter.com/o53uBLqCWr | Así las cosas al norte de #Culiacán. Momentos exactos de la balacera captados por el compañero reportero Policiaco, Ernesto Martínez. pic.twitter.com/o53uBLqCWr |
| The battles raged for several hours before the Televisa TV network reported it had confirmed the arrest of Ovidio Guzmán López, one of the infamous drug baron’s lesser known sons. | The battles raged for several hours before the Televisa TV network reported it had confirmed the arrest of Ovidio Guzmán López, one of the infamous drug baron’s lesser known sons. |
| The 28-year-old Ovidio Guzmán López is one of four children from Chapo’s second marriage. He is named together with his elder brother, Joaquín Guzmán López, in an indictment related to cocaine trafficking released by the US Department of Justice in February this year. | |
| Chapo Guzmán had two other wives and at least six more children. | |
| The murder of 22-year-old Edgar Guzmán López in a Culiacan parking lot May 2008 sparked a major turf war between Chapo and his former allies from the Beltrán Leyva cartel that raged for years. | |
| The Sinaloa public security secretary, Cristóbal Castañeda, told Milenio TV that as well as roving shootouts and barricades, the chaos included a mass jailbreak of between 20 and 30 inmates. | The Sinaloa public security secretary, Cristóbal Castañeda, told Milenio TV that as well as roving shootouts and barricades, the chaos included a mass jailbreak of between 20 and 30 inmates. |
| “We are inviting people to get off the streets until we have re-established control of the city,” he said. | “We are inviting people to get off the streets until we have re-established control of the city,” he said. |
| Guzmán, whose cartel was once billed as the most powerful drug trafficking organization in the world, was sentenced to life in prison by a US federal court in January. | Guzmán, whose cartel was once billed as the most powerful drug trafficking organization in the world, was sentenced to life in prison by a US federal court in January. |
| Over the course of decades in the business, the 62-year-old had been arrested three times – twice in Mexico and once in Guatemala – and managed to make two spectacular escapes from high security Mexican jails. | Over the course of decades in the business, the 62-year-old had been arrested three times – twice in Mexico and once in Guatemala – and managed to make two spectacular escapes from high security Mexican jails. |
| Chapo’s second arrest in 2014 took place in the port city of Mazatlán without a shot being fired. He was in the company of his third wife and their two baby daughters at the time. | |
| Two of the drug lord’s eldest sons, Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar and Jesús Alfredo Guzmán Salazar, have appeared to lead the family’s bid to retain control of the cartel after his final downfall began with his third arrest in January 2016. | |
| Both sons were reportedly kidnapped in August of that year from a swanky restaurant in the Pacific resort city of Puerto Vallarta by the Sinaloa cartel’s then up and coming rival the New Generation Jalisco Cartel. Officials only ever confirmed the abduction and release a week later of Jesús Alfredo. | |
| Mexico after El Chapo: new generation fights for control of the cartel | Mexico after El Chapo: new generation fights for control of the cartel |
| His last arrest, in 2016, and subsequent extradition to the US triggered a power struggle within the cartel, in which one of the factions was reportedly led by the highest-profile of his many children, Ivan Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar. | His last arrest, in 2016, and subsequent extradition to the US triggered a power struggle within the cartel, in which one of the factions was reportedly led by the highest-profile of his many children, Ivan Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar. |
| Thursday’s shootouts initially prompted rumours that they were triggered by the arrest of Ivan Archivaldo. | Thursday’s shootouts initially prompted rumours that they were triggered by the arrest of Ivan Archivaldo. |
| As the shootouts spread terror around the city, there was no word from state or federal authorities other than advising people to stay at home. Locals fled the streets, with many taking refuge inside businesses and shops. | As the shootouts spread terror around the city, there was no word from state or federal authorities other than advising people to stay at home. Locals fled the streets, with many taking refuge inside businesses and shops. |
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