Destroyed, this is how the house was left where the son of ‘Chapo’ Guzmán was captured

Last Thursday, January 5, drug trafficking in Mexico suffered a severe blow, after Ovidio Guzmán, one of the sons of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, was captured. Ovidio, 32, is considered the head of the minorsa fraction of the Sinaloa Cartel, founded four decades ago by the ‘Chapo’, who is serving a life sentence in a US prison.

Guzmán is responsible for trafficking methamphetamine to the United States, a country that offered five million dollars for his capture. Recently, images have been revealed that show the magnitude of the operation that ended in the capture of the drug trafficker.

The Army and the National Guard participated in this operation. 29 people lost their lives in the middle of the crossfire, a dozen of them belonging to the Mexican Armed Forces and 19 to the criminal groups that generated violent disturbances, after Ovid’s capture will be confirmed.

The house where Guzmán was captured is located in the state of Sinaloa, in northern Mexico, in the town of Jesús María, about 20 kilometers northwest of Culiacán, the state capital. To date, the Mexican Army is guarding the area and doing the proper inspection of the place.

In the images you can see how the gate of Ovidio’s house received a burst of shots, also at the entrance and in the common areas of the site you can see traces of blood and hundreds of casings.

Upon entering the house, of approximately 150 square meters, it can be seen that approximately a dozen armored cars received bullet wounds and around 30 vehicles were left on the roads of the site that were burned and shot due to the riots that occurred, after Ovid’s capture.

The sports cars that Ovidio had in his house were also hit by bullets, In several of the vehicles in which Ovidio and his bodyguards were transported, a sticker of a mouse can be seen, a nickname that “Chapo” Guzmán gave his son.

Extradition for Guzmán?

Ovidio Guzmán, son of jailed drug trafficker Joaquín ‘Chapo’ Guzmán, obtained a judicial suspension against an immediate extradition to the United States, which requires it for drug trafficking, according to a ruling released last Friday, January 6.

“The ex officio suspension of acts consisting of deportation, expulsion, extradition and its execution is decreed outright” so that “it is not handed over to the government of the United States of America, nor to any other State,” said the decision of a judge.

Washington claims Ovidio Guzmán and his brother Joaquín for conspiracy to export cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana to that country. For each one he offers a five million dollar reward.

Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard had already ruled out an express extradition of Guzmán to the United States, clarifying that that request will follow the regular course.

The official recalled that the Mexican extradition law “sets a series of deadlines for the elements to be presented” and “evidence against” the accused.

“We estimate that this is going to happen between four and six weeks from now by the United States, which submitted the extradition request (in September 2019),” Ebrard said at a press conference.

In Ovidio’s audience, in El Altiplano, A judge established that the United States has until March 5 to formalize its extradition request.

The Mexican government accuses Guzmán of crimes against health and related to firearms, although there are also investigations related to organized crime, said the Secretary of Public Security, Roca Icela Rodríguez.

*With information from AFP.