This Is How ‘El Chapo’ And His Family Reacted To The Release Of Ovidio Guzmán Ordered By AMLO.

Mica for cartelinsider.com

One of the most criticized decisions of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador during his term was the one made on October 17th, 2019, the day when the first capture of Ovidio Guzmán López, son of Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán and Griselda López Pérez, was registered.

From around 10 am on that day, high-ranking officials of the National Defense Secretariat (Sedena) organized the implementation of an operation to surround the son of the drug lord in Culiacán.

By two in the afternoon, the Army had already surrounded Ovidio’s house, known as ‘El Ratón’, and at 2:17 pm he came out with his hands up.

By that moment, Los Chapitos had already unleashed a wave of attacks against the authorities with high-caliber rifles and had deployed their escort groups throughout the city, fully prepared to set it on fire.

Faced with the threat posed by the ranks of Los Chapitos, López Obrador and the highest officials of the Security Cabinet decided to release Ovidio Guzmán.

“We were going to lose lives if we did not suspend the operation with more than 200 innocent people in Culiacán, Sinaloa, and the decision was made. I ordered that the operation be stopped and that this alleged criminal be released,” AMLO admitted in his conference on June 19, 2020.

According to reports from military intelligence, at 18:55 on that day, a sedan car left the house of ‘El Ratón’ along with a significant police and military escort, without specifying if the recently released person was travelling in it.

A couple of days later, the family of ‘El Chapo’ Guzman sent a message to President Lopez Obrador and the Security Cabinet through their lawyers.

“Very grateful the whole family, very happy, he is now in a safe place and we would like to thank you all that he was not tortured as was usual in the past or executed (sic.)” stated José Luis González Meza, one of the legal representatives, in a press conference at the Club de Periodistas.

According to the information provided by the litigants to the media, Ovidio Guzmán was detained for around five hours in the Tres Ríos housing complex despite the fact that the army agents did not have an arrest warrant or any judicial mandate to capture him.

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