Video shows Mexican soldier begging son of 'El Chapo' to order his cartel fighters to stand down
It is an extraordinary video — a behind-the-scenes look at what happened this month when Mexican security forcesIn the clip, which was released Wednesday by Mexico’s defense secretary, Ovidio Guzman Lopez is shown surrendering to soldiers who had trapped him in a home in the northern city of Culiacan.
Eventually, the soldiers freed Guzman and retreated, a decision that Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has defended as necessary to save lives. Many in Mexico doubt that claim, saying that top military officials would have known about an operation of this magnitude.Another key question has to do with the legal basis of the operation. Authorities lacked a search warrant when they entered Guzman’s property, which made the raid illegal from the beginning, according to multiple experts.
The neighborhood is bordered on two sides by rivers. By blocking a handful of bridges and other intersections, the cartel was able to trap security forces as well as thousands of civilians who happened to be in the posh shopping and dining district at the time. “We went to kick a wasp,” tweeted Esteban Illades, a columnist at Milenio newspaper. “And were surprised when the wasps got angry.”During a U.S. congressional hearing last week, Rich Glenn, deputy assistant secretary of State for international narcotics and law enforcement affairs, said the operation in Culiacan raised questions about Mexico’s dedication to fighting organized crime.
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