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DEA’s new Chicago boss Sheila Lyons: Will target fentanyl, an ‘awful, terrible challenge’

Lyons, the first woman to hold the post, says she’ll target Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel and Jalisco New Generation Cartel, saying the fentanyl they supply is “like nothing I’ve ever seen in my 30 years in law enforcement.”

Chicago Sun-Times

Mexico President Andrés López Obrador blames fentanyl crisis on U.S., denies his country produces the opioid

Despite enormous evidence to the contrary, he said: “Here, we do not produce fentanyl, and we do not have consumption of fentanyl. Why don’t they” — the United States — “take care of their problem of social decay?”

Chicago Sun-Times

Mexico’s former top security official convicted in federal corruption trial in Brooklyn

NEW YORK — Mexico’s former top cop used the police force he commanded to help a drug cartel do business, a federal jury in Brooklyn found Tuesday.

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Mexico’s former top security official convicted in US of taking cartel bribes

Genaro Garcia Luna is one of the most senior Mexican officials ever convicted of ties to a drug cartel

The Independent UK

Ex-Mexico drug czar's defense says accusers have 'motives to lie'

Admitted drug traffickers who testified against a former Mexican law enforcement official accused by the United States of taking millions of dollars in bribes from the Sinaloa cartel have "incredible motives to lie," a defense lawyer said on Wednesday.

Reuters

Mexican ex-security chief on trial: multimillion bribe claims and a cat named cocaine

Cartel operators, ex-police and a former government official have testified against Genaro García Luna with allegations of cash drops and kidnappings

The Guardian - US

Mexico's top cop was being paid by El Chapo's Sinaloa cartel, feds say at New York trial

NEW YORK — Mexico’s one-time top cop played the part of a drug-fighting hero, adding more than 30,000 officers to the country’s federal police force, but it was all a front, federal prosecutors say — Genaro Garcia Luna was really taking money from Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman's feared Sinaloa cartel…

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US drug trial opens for Mexico ex-security head

Genaro García Luna goes on trial on charges of helping the Sinaloa Cartel traffic drugs and protect them from capture while he was serving as Mexico’s top security official

The Independent UK

Fake videos circulate after police arrest El Chapo’s son

When news broke that police had arrested Ovidio Guzman, the son of the well-known Mexican drug lord “El Chapo”, on January 5, armed members of his cartel took to the streets, engaging in violent clashes with police. A wave of videos claiming to show these clashes was uploaded to social…

France 24

El Chapo's son seen in mugshot after he's captured and 30 killed in cartel clashes

El Chapo's son Ovidio Guzman, aged 32, allegedly took over as head of the Sinaloa cartel in 2017 after his father was extradited to the US

Daily Mirror

Mexican capo's arrest a gesture to US, not signal of change

Mexico’s capture of a son of former Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán this week likely is an isolated nod to a drug war strategy that Mexico’s current administration has abandoned rather than a sign that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s thinking has changed

The Independent UK

At least 29 killed in Mexico during capture of Chapo's son Ovidio Guzman

Nineteen suspected gang members and 10 military personnel are killed in a wave of violence surrounding the arrest of suspected Mexican drug cartel boss Ovidio Guzman.

ABC News

The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 7 January 2023

The Sinaloa Cartel was dealt a significant blow this week with the capture of Ovidio Guzmán. You know the name. The city of Culiacán descended into an orgy of retaliatory violence.

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Extradition of cartel boss El Chapo’s son to US halted by judge

Authorities say that Ovidio Guzman also aces legal proceedings in Mexico

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The Independent UK

At least 29 people killed in violence following arrest of Mexican cartel boss El Chapo’s son

Wave of violence broke out in state of Sinaloa after government arested Ovidio Guzman

Axios

Mexico authorities arrest El Chapo's son, sparking deadly riots in Sinaloa state

The U.S. State Department said Ovidio Guzmán was a"high-ranking member" of the Sinaloa Cartel that his jailed father previously led.

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Violence hits a Mexico cartel stronghold as the son of 'El Chapo' is captured

Mexico's defense secretary said the military had captured Ovidio Guzmán, a son of the notorious former Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, on Thursday in a pre-dawn operation in Sinaloa.

The Independent UK

Violence hits Mexico cartel stronghold as 'Chapo' son nabbed

Mexico's capture of a son of the imprisoned drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman thrust Sinaloa's state capital into a day of terror unlike any its residents had experienced since October 2019 — the last time authorities tried to capture Ovidio Guzmán

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Los Angeles Times

Cartel lays siege to Mexican city after recapture of the son of ‘El Chapo’

Armed men took hostages, burned vehicles and stormed an airport in northern Mexico on Thursday after federal forces captured Ovidio Guzmán, one of the world’s most wanted cartel leaders and the son of notorious drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán.

Evening Standard

Security services members killed in clashes in Mexico after son of ‘El Chapo’ drug trafficker captured

Violence erupts across Sinaloa after police make major arrest of man wanted in US on drug trafficking charges

Reuters

Explainer-Why Ovidio Guzman is one of Mexico's most wanted men

Mexican security forces on Thursday arrested cartel leader Ovidio Guzman, son of incarcerated kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the country's defense minister said.

The Independent UK

Drug lord, trafficker, killer of wedding singers: How the ‘New Mouse’ followed in the bloody footsteps of his father El Chapo

Ovidio Guzman’s arrest was hailed as a major blow to Mexico’s all-powerful Sinaloa Cartel. The son of the notorious El Chapo may now face extradition to the US, writes Bevan Hurley

Reuters

Mexican carrier Aeromexico says plane hit by gunfire, no reported injuries

Mexican airline Aeromexico said the fuselage of a plane scheduled to fly from Culiacan, Sinaloa to Mexico City was hit by gunfire Thursday morning, though no clients or employees were harmed.

The Independent UK

Violence paralyzes Mexican stronghold of Sinaloa drug cartel

Organized crime has paralyzed the western Mexico city of Culiacan, a stronghold of the Sinaloa drug cartel

Reuters

Mexico captures son of 'El Chapo' sparking wave of violence

Mexican security forces captured on Thursday drug cartel leader Ovidio Guzman, a son of jailed kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, triggering a wave of violence ahead of a visit by U.S. President Joe Biden next week.

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