![]() ![]() “We are asking citizens not to go out,” Sinaloa’s security secretary, Cristóbal Castañeda, tweeted as the mayhem spread. 50 caliber machine guns desperate to avoid the arrest of Guzmán, an alleged cocaine, marijuana and methamphetamine trafficker for whose arrest the US had offered a $5m reward.Ī Black Hawk gunship pummeled one target with a 3,000-shots-per-minute, six-barrel machine gun similar to those US troops used in Vietnam.Įventually, Guzmán was arrested – but worse was still to come, as cartel gunslingers marauded across Sinaloa state, torching vehicles, blocking roads and trying to seize control of Culiacán’s airport to stop authorities extracting their leader. Seven soldiers were killed in the ensuing gun battle between troops and gangsters with. Thirty-five miles north of the capital, near a rural fishing community called Jesús María, security forces claimed they had spotted a convoy of around 25 cartel vehicles in which their target – AKA “El Ratón” (The Mouse) – was believed to be traveling. Photograph: Gerardo Vieyra/NurPhoto/REX/ShutterstockĬuliacán’s day of drama began at about 4.40am on Thursday, according to the local newspaper Noroeste. Rosa Icela Rodríguez during a press conference in Mexico City after the recapture of Ovidio Guzmán. ![]()
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