Mexico has arrested Ovidio Guzmán, a Mexican drug lord and son of drug lord Joaquín Guzmán, better known as “El Chapo”.
This sparked a violent backlash from guerrillas on Thursday, forcing the closure of Culiacán airport as authorities told residents to stay at home.
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In turn, Defense Minister Luis Crescencio Sandoval announced in a press conference that the security forces had arrested the 32-year-old leading member of the Sinaloa gang.
The arrest comes 3 years after an attempt to arrest him ended in humiliation by the government.
Sandoval added that Ovidio is now being held in the capital, Mexico City.
The videos also showed fierce fighting overnight in Culiacán, the main city in the northern Mexican state of Sinaloa, as helicopter gunships lit up the sky.
The city’s airport has been subject to violence, with the state-owned airline saying one of its planes was caught in fire ahead of a scheduled flight to Mexico City.
He added that no one was hurt. The airport was closed until Thursday night.
Mexican drug baron Joaquim El Chapo Guzman
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Interestingly, Ovidio was arrested briefly in 2019 and was quickly released to put an end to his gang’s violent vendetta in Culiacán.
While the incident was an embarrassing setback for the government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
Ovid has become a key figure in the gang since his father’s arrest.
Interestingly, the United States had offered a $5 million reward for information leading to Ovid’s arrest or conviction.
Joaquin Guzman, 65, was convicted in New York in 2019 of smuggling billions of dollars of drugs into the United States and conspiring to kill enemies.
