The massacre of 3 women and 6 children in northern Mexico shows fragility of government, experts say.
Wood said Mexican authorities “lack proper and effective investigative capacities” and because of issues in the criminal justice system, “if a suspect is actually produced, there are always going to be doubts about whether the individual or group of individuals is really responsible.”Members of the Lebaron family mourn while they watch the burned car where part of the nine murdered members of the family were killed and burned during an gunmen ambush on Bavispe, Sonora mountains, Mexico, on Nov.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has defended the decision to release Guzmán López, saying it was made to protect citizens and the man's capture was not worth further loss of life. A Mexican police officer inspects the scene around a bullet riddled armed forces truck, a day after gunmen and members of Mexico security forces clashed in a large gun battle in Culiacan, Mexico, on Oct. 18.Wood said the operation that captured and ultimately released El Chapo’s son was “in the heartland of the Sinaloa cartel, in the rat’s nest.”
“Twelve years later, it’s tough to say we’ve had major success in reducing either the flow of drugs northwards or the hold that organized crime has over Mexican territory and Mexican society,” he said.
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