"Thank you, Mr. President," say lawyers of kingpin's son after his release

Record ID: 1437620

  • Title: "Thank you, Mr. President," say lawyers of kingpin's son after his release
  • Date: 19th October 2019
  • Summary: CULIACAN, SINALOA, MEXICO (OCTOBER 18, 2019) (REUTERS) ***WARNING: CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** POLICE IN STREET CHARRED VEHICLE BEING TOWED AWAY ANOTHER VEHICLE READY TO BE TOWED AWAY POLICE GATHERED IN STREET VARIOUS OF CHARRED REMAINS OF TRUCK READY TO BE TOWED AWAY POLICEMAN TRYING TO PUT OUT FIRE VARIOUS OF CHARRED REMAINS OF TRUCK BEING TOWED AWAY MEXICO CITY, MEXICO (OCTOBER 18, 2019) (REUTERS) NEWS CONFERENCE WITH JOSE LUIS GONZALEZ MEZA AND JUAN PABLO BADILLO, LAWYERS FOR THE GUZMAN FAMILY REPORTERS LOOKING ON (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) JOSE LUIS GONZALEZ MEZA, LAWYER FOR THE GUZMAN FAMILY, SAYING: "This is a very short message of thanks to the President of the Republic, Lopez Obrador, to his national security team and the whole family is very thankful." CAMERA PEOPLE (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) JUAN PABLO BADILLO, LAWYER FOR THE GUZMAN FAMILY, SAYING: "And with great sense, intelligence, and justice, Mr. President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador ordered that he (Ovidio Guzman) be immediately released. This happened at around 8 o'clock at night. That brought great happiness, not only to the whole family, but also his lawyers of course." VARIOUS OF POLICE CAR BLOCKING ROAD CHARRED REMAINS OF BUS CLOSED RESTAURANT BULLET HOLE IN WINDOW CAR BLOCKING ROAD
  • Embargoed: 2nd November 2019 00:43
  • Keywords: Lopez Obrador El Chapo Oviedo Guzman Culiacan lawyers Jose Luis Gonzalez Meza Juan Pablo Badillo
  • Location: CULIACAN, SINALOA AND MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
  • City: CULIACAN, SINALOA AND MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
  • Country: Mexico
  • Topics: Crime/Law/Justice,Crime
  • Reuters ID: LVA001B1RI4W7
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Jose Luis Gonzalez Meza and Juan Pablo Badillo, lawyers for the Guzman family, thanked Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador for the government's actions in releasing kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's son.
    Mexican officials on Friday admitted they had bungled the arrest of Ovidio Guzman, who they let go during shootouts with drug gangs, but the president insisted his security strategy was working.
    Cartel gunmen surrounded around 35 police and national guard in the northwestern city of Culiacan on Thursday and made them free Ovidio, one of the jailed drug lord's dozen or so children, after his brief detention set off widespread gun battles and a jailbreak that stunned the country.
    The chaos in Culiacan, a bastion of Guzman's Sinaloa Cartel, turned up pressure on President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who took office in December promising to pacify a country weary of more than a decade of gang violence and murders.
    Lopez Obrador came under heavy criticism on social media and from security experts, who said that authorities risked encouraging copycat actions by caving in to the gang, and that the retreat from a major city created the impression that the cartel, not the state, was in control.
    But the president defended the government response.
    (Production: Jesus Bustamante, Roberto Ramirez, Manuel Carrillo)
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