Mexican president defends retreat in Guzman cartel shootout

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Mexican authorities say they backed off an attempt to capture a son of former drug kingpin Joaquin &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;El Chapo” Guzman after cartel gunmen shooting heavy weapons and burning vehicles paralysed the capital of Sinaloa state&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Twenty-one people were wounded&comma; state public security secretary Cristobal Castaneda said&comma; and 27 inmates escaped from a prison&comma; as law enforcement officers were apparently outgunned&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div data-google-query-id&equals;"CPqxpaOZpuUCFdRYFQgdrMwAAg">Security secretary Alfonso Durazo said 30 members of the National Guard and army were patrolling in Culiacan when they were fired on from a house on Thursday&period; They repelled the attack and inside the house found Ovidio Guzman Lopez&comma; son of the convicted Sinaloa cartel boss&period;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div data-google-query-id&equals;"CPqxpaOZpuUCFdRYFQgdrMwAAg">&NewLine;<p>The house was then surrounded by heavily armed gunmen who had &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;a greater force” and authorities decided to suspend the operation&comma; Mr Durazo said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He did not say if Ovidio Guzman had been arrested or went free&comma; but he told Televisa that security forces left the house without him&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;With the goal of safeguarding the well-being and tranquillity of Culiacan society&comma; officials in the security cabinet decided to suspend the actions&comma;”<&sol;em> Mr Durazo said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said he backed the decisions of his security officials&comma; and added that the army operation was based on an arrest warrant&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The capture of one criminal cannot be worth more than the lives of people&comma;”<&sol;em> Mr Lopez Obrador said&comma; calling the response to the operation &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;very violent” and saying many lives were put at risk&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;This decision was made to protect citizens&period; You cannot fight fire with fire&comma;”<&sol;em> he added&period; <em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We do not want deaths&period; We do not want war&period;”<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Jose Luis Gonzalez Meza&comma; a lawyer for El Chapo’s family&comma; told the Associated Press that Guzman’s family said &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Ovidio is alive and free”&comma; but had no more details about what happened&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ovidio was not one of the jailed Mexican drug lord’s best-known sons — Ivan Archivaldo Guzman and Jesus Alfredo Guzman are known as &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;los Chapitos”&comma; or &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;the little Chapos”&comma; and are believed to run their father’s Sinaloa cartel with Ismael &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;El Mayo” Zambada&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But Ovidio Guzman was indicted in 2018 by a grand jury in Washington&comma; along with a fourth brother&comma; for the alleged trafficking of cocaine&comma; methamphetamine and marijuana&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Culiacan exploded in violence on Thursday with armed civilians in trucks roaring through the city’s centre shooting sniper rifles and machine guns&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Videos published on social media showed a scene resembling a war zone&comma; with gunmen&comma; some wearing black ski masks over their faces&comma; riding in the back of trucks firing mounted machine guns as vehicles burned&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>People could be seen running for cover as machine gun fire rattled around them&comma; and drivers drove in reverse to get away from the clashes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Castaneda told Milenio television there were people wounded but did not provide a casualty figure&period; He did not rule out that there were deaths&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>State officials asked residents to avoid going out in parts of city&comma; and Sinaloa’s football club Dorados announced it had cancelled a game for security concerns&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Govenor Quirino Ordaz confirmed that school classes had been suspended but businesses would open on Friday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed2e5180dcd">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; function &lpar;&rpar; 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