Mexico jumped into action on Monday in the wake of a cartel assault that freed J...
CULIACAN, Mexico - Mexico jumped into action on Monday in the wake of a cartel assault that freed Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s son in a northern city, sending in special forces to patrol the town and asking U.S. officials to stop gun-smuggling across the shared border.
“We are going to protect the citizens, that is our mission,” said General Carlos Ramon Carrillo de Villar, who oversaw formations of soldiers marching at a media event. “We are fighting insecurity.” After a telephone call with U.S. President Donald Trump over the weekend, Mexican Cabinet ministers met with U.S. Ambassador Christopher Landau to ask for help stemming the flow of weapons bought legally in the United States and sold to cartels south of the border.
Videos of the attacks in Culiacan last week showed cartel soldiers firing armor piercing .50 caliber rifles and at least one truck mounted with a heavy machine gun - weaponry that is not available by legal means in Mexico. Had security forces attempted to hold Guzman against the cartel foot soldiers, many people could have been killed, Lopez Obrador told a regular news conference.
Homicide data released on Sunday offered some hope for the strategy - showing murders fell in September for the third straight month.
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