Mystery of Mexico’s cartel wars grows as ‘The Mouse’ is rescued
by Ed Vulliamy from World news | The Guardian on (#4SWAX)
The abortive bid to arrest the son of 'El Chapo' Guzmin last week made one thing clear: someone betrayed the government
Sinaloa cartel gunmen took over a Mexican city on Thursday, turning the streets into an apparent war zone. Their mission was to rescue the son of the notorious drugs lord, El Chapo, who had been captured by police. Officers were forced to release Ovidio Guzmin Lopez after gang members threw up roadblocks with blazing trucks, and staged a prison break of 51 of their comrades.
The battle came only a week after Mexico's interior secretary Olga Sinchez Cordero pledged that the country would "very soon" see results of the deployment of a 70,000-strong National Guard - a showpiece unit formed this year by president Andri(C)s Manuel Lopez Obrador - against resurgent violence and record murder levels.
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