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Ovid Guzmanone of the sons of the drug trafficker Joaquin ‘El Chapo’was arrested at dawn on January 5 after a large police deployment in the city of Culiacán, state of Sinaloa. Ovidio, Known as ‘El Ratón’, a nickname his father would have given him, he was taken to the Altiplano prison, the same one where his father was held and later escaped.
The house where he was captured Ovidioin the town of Jesús María, some 20 kilometers northwest of Culiacán (state capital), was destroyed after the operation, which left 29 dead, traces of blood, hundreds of casings and just over a dozen armored vehicles with bullet impacts.
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When was Ovidio Guzmán arrested in Mexico?
The Mexican authorities detained this Thursday Ovidio Guzmán, son of the imprisoned drug trafficker Joaquín “Chapo” Guzmán, during an operation in the city of Culiacán (northwest) that unleashed intense shootings and burning of vehicles, leaving one dead and 28 injured.
Guzmán was captured by the army and the National Guard accused of leading “the Los Menores fraction, related to the Pacific Cartel (or Sinaloa Cartel), and is the “son of Joaquín Guzmán Loera”, sentenced to life imprisonment in the United States, he declared. the Secretary of Defense, Luis Cresencio Sandoval, to the press.
Mexicans believe that security will improve after the arrest of the son of “El Chapo”
Almost a third of Mexicans considered that security in the northern state of Sinaloa, and in the country in general, will improve after the arrest last week of Ovidio Guzmán, one of the sons of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, according to this report. poll Monday.
31.45% of the thousand Mexicans polled by the polling company Poligrama considered that security will improve in the region and in the country after the arrest of the alleged drug trafficker, while 21.43% said that it would continue “just as well.” .
On the contrary, 21.54% thought that the situation would worsen and 25.58% that it would continue “just as bad”.
The US denies a link between the arrest of the son of “El Chapo” Guzmán and Biden’s trip to Mexico
The US government denied on Monday that the capture last week of Mexican drug trafficker Ovidio Guzmán, son of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, was coordinated with the visit of US President Joe Biden to Mexico.
“Those things are not like that,” a senior US administration official told EFE a few hours after Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador received Biden for a bilateral meeting in Mexico City on immigration and drug trafficking.
The official explained that his government is “willing to support Mexico” in the face of the violence suffered by certain areas of the country due to the presence of the cartels, while admitting that the United States has a “responsibility” in this regard due to its high demand for drugs.
With information from EFE.
How much did Ovidio Guzmán get as an inheritance?
The Sinaloa Cartel is a powerful criminal organization founded by Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán, Ovidio’s father, who created a fortune with the drug trafficking business and different criminal activities.
In fact, in 2009, Forbes magazine listed ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán as one of the richest men in the world. At that time he had in his power about 1,000 million dollars. This figure made him stay on the well-known list for four more years. But, in 2013, they decided to remove it from the ranking because they did not know the origin of the money.
After his capture and subsequent life sentence in 2019, experts maintained that the capo’s fortune would amount to 12.666 million dollars, money that would ultimately remain in the hands of his children, including Ovidio.
How much is the fortune of the son of ‘El Chapo’?
According to the Hidalgo Qadratin portal, United States agencies assure that Ovidio is “the main administrator of the Sinaloa cartel and specifically of his father’s fortune.”
Now, as for the fortune that Ovidio got on his own, it is estimated that he may have doubled his father’s initial fortune, due to the cocaine, marijuana and methamphetamine business.
AMLO denies having spoken to Biden about Ovidio Guzmán
“It is a very coarse argument and it is also disrespectful,” declared the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, about the people who assure that the capture of Ovidio “el Ratón” Guzmán was to “look good” with his counterpart American Joe Biden.
Video: Twitter/Politico MX
House where the son of “El Chapo” Guzmán was captured in Mexico was destroyed
With traces of blood, hundreds of casings and just over a dozen armored vehicles with bullet holes, is the house where Ovidio Guzmán, one of the sons of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, was arrested, in Sinaloa, located in Sinaloa , to the north of Mexico.
How much power did Ovidio Guzmán have in the Sinaloa cartel?
The drug trafficker Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, who is imprisoned in the United States, has had at least 10 children with three women. When he was arrested in 2016, four of his sons took control of much of the Sinaloa cartel.
According to various reports, the four heirs to the drug empire —the so-called “Chapitos”— are Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar, Joaquín Guzmán López, Ovidio Guzmán López and Jesús Alfredo Guzmán Salazar, according to the BBC.
Who is Ovidio Guzmán and what is he accused of?
Ovidio He was one of the little-known heirs of the Sinaloa Cartel until the “culiacanazo”, which occurred on October 17, 2019, an erratic operation of the Government of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in which the authorities captured him, but he was later released after acts of terror by organized crime in Culiacán. Ovidio is one of the leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel.
Who is Adriana Meza, the alleged wife of Ovidio Guzmán?
Adriana Meza-Torres He has a life away from the media. She is known as “The New Queen of the Sinaloa Cartel” because she is believed to be the wife of Ovidio Guzmán, son of the drug trafficker known as ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán.
The Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF) reported that it is presumed that this young woman has long-standing ties to drug trafficking, since her father would be Raúl Meza, better known as “M-6”, who died in a shootout in 2007 during the War against Narco in Culiacán.
Ovidio Guzmán: recapture and events in Culiacán
At least 29 people died from the violence unleashed in the Mexican state of Culiacán, Sinaloa (north) after the arrest of Ovid Guzmanone of the sons of Joaquin “Chapo” Guzman Most Wanted in the US.
“Ten soldiers lost their lives in the line of duty in order to guarantee security. The Mexican State will give them funeral honors,” acknowledged the president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
Fortune of Ovidio Guzmán
In 2009, Forbes magazine listed ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán as one of the richest men in the world. At that time he had in his power about 1 billion dollars. This figure made him stay on the well-known list for four more years. But, in 2013, they decided to remove it from the ranking because they did not know the origin of the money.
After his capture and subsequent life sentence in 2019, experts argued that the capo’s fortune would rise by 12,666 million dollarsmoney that would finally remain in the hands of his children, including Ovid.
Which singers did Ovidio Guzmán order to kill?
In a document published by the DEA, Ovidio Guzmán, known as “Ratón”, gave the order to assassinate a “popular Mexican singer”, who would have opposed singing at the celebration of his marriage with Adriana Meza, “Queen of the cartel from Sinaloa’.
Although it is not yet known exactly who it would be, the newspaper La Opinión mentions that between 2019 and 2020 the singers Alex Quintero, Roberto Domínguez Trejo, Néstor Valdez, Julio Verdugo and Luis Mendoza lost their lives, who were murdered with a firearm. fire.
With information from EFE and AFP.