Residents of Mexico's Sinaloa fear spike in violence after drug lord's capture

Record ID: 1831351

  • Title: Residents of Mexico's Sinaloa fear spike in violence after drug lord's capture
  • Date: 31st July 2024
  • Summary: CULIACAN, SINALOA, MEXICO (JULY 29, 2024) (REUTERS) PEOPLE WALKING IN FRONT OF CHURCH PEOPLE SITTING AT SQUARE NEWSPAPER STAND VARIOUS OF CARDS SOLD AT STAND SHOWING CARTOON OF ISMAEL “MAYO” ZAMBADA (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) LOCAL RESIDENT, TOMAS (NO LAST NAME GIVEN), SAYING: "Right now we are calm but when there is no National Guard and the soldiers that were sent from Mexico City, we are going to be mortified because we are afraid of a new Culiacanazo (eds note: refers to a clash between armed forces and organized crime in October 2019), things like that, because with what happened we are not comfortable. Now we are a little bit at ease but after all this (the presence of soldiers) we are going to be on alert." PERSON AT NEWSPAPER STAND
  • Embargoed: 14th August 2024 17:37
  • Keywords: Army Chapito Culiacan El Chapo Mayo Zambada National Guard drug lord security
  • Location: CULIACAN, SINALOA, MEXICO
  • City: CULIACAN, SINALOA, MEXICO
  • Country: Mexico
  • Topics: Crime/Law/Justice,South America / Central America,North America
  • Reuters ID: LVA002318631072024RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Residents in the northern state of Sinaloa said on Tuesday (July 30) that they are on edge and fear a spike in violence following the arrest of Sinaloa Cartel chief Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada by U.S. authorities.
    Nearly 200 members of the Mexican Army have been deployed to Sinaloa's capital city Culiacan to reinforce security in the state following the arrest of "El Mayo" and Joaquin Guzman Lopez, son of drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.
    Residents told Reuters they fear that when the military reinforcements leave, clashes between cartels will break out in the area.
    Zambada was arrested on Thursday (July 25) near El Paso, Texas, after landing in a small plane that arrived from Mexico. Reuters and other news outlets, citing anonymous U.S. officials, reported last week that El Mayo appeared to have been tricked by a son of former Sinaloa Cartel chief Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, who wanted to surrender to authorities.
    But Zambada's lawyer, Frank Perez, contradicted that story and said the legendary trafficker was violently kidnapped by El Chapo's son, Joaquin Guzman Lopez.
    Perez said Guzman Lopez and six men in military uniforms ambushed Zambada near Culiacan in Mexico's Sinaloa state, forced him onto a plane and brought him to the United States against his will. Zambada has pleaded not guilty to drug charges in a federal court in El Paso.
    (Production: Jesus Bustamante, Rodolfo Pena Roja, Andrea Rodriguez)
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