On October 17, 2019, a failed operation by the Mexican army allowed the new generation of young narcos in the Sinaloa Cartel to gain notoriety.
The rise of Joaquín and Ovidio Guzmán López, as well as Jesús Alfredo and Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar, better known as “Los Chapitos”, represented a new epochal change in Mexico’s criminal history. The Director of Operations of the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), Mike Vigil, defined it as the transition from ” violent to ultra-violent cartels “.
“They are going to want to take control of the traffic at any cost and that is going to make the war against Jalisco (Jalisco New Generation Cartel) more violent, which, in itself, is ultraviolent.”
In the words of the Spanish writer and journalist, Arturo Pérez Reverte, it is about a “different generation of drug dealers that has no value, they do not respect anything and they destroy anything in order to earn two dollars and that has turned the drug dealer from something that it could be interesting to follow, into something unpleasant ”.
That day women, children, students, and entire families had to take refuge in offices, schools, squares, restaurants and other people’s houses due to the fierce offensive of the Sinaloa Cartel, specifically the faction led by the children of “El Chapo”, to free Ovidio Guzmán López.
A legion of young hitmen at the service of Joaquín and Ovidio Guzmán López, as well as Jesús Alfredo and Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar, managed to get President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to fold his hands and order the suspension of the arrest operation for purposes of extradition to the United States of America.
An army of between 700 and 800 armed civilians, most of them young, drove law enforcement officers back to different parts of the city at gunpoint.
“The convocation power and the response capacity of the criminal organization were dismissed”, justified the Secretary of National Defense, Luis Cresencio Sandoval, the next day.
The “Black Thursday” left a balance of nine dead, although the government said there had been eight. Among these, there was a civilian, an agent of the National Guard, five alleged criminals, and an inmate of the Aguaruto prison.
Los Chapitos “walk around as if nothing had happened, as if they didn’t have arrest warrants despite the fact that each one of them carries a reward of $5 million dollars. At this moment they are celebrating because they will undoubtedly take control of the Cartel,” Vigil assured.
The former DEA agent predicted that they will take full control of the Sinaloa Cartel before the end of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s six-year term as long as “they don’t do stupid things .”
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