Self-criticism in Mexico for the operation against the …

The Secretary General of National Defense (Sedena), General Luis Cresencio Sandoval González, acknowledged that the operation to arrest Ovidio Guzmán López, in El Ratón, had been conducted in a rushed manner, with poor planning and a lack of foresight about the consequences of the intervention. also failing to obtain the consensus of his superiors; therefore, the security cabinet was not warned of the acts committed by a group of 40 men, composed of elements of the National Guard and the Mexican Army.

The operation resulted in nearly 12 hours of shootings and clashes in this city. officially left eight people killed, including a member of the National Guard, a civilian, an Aguaruto prisoner and five attackers, as well as 49 escaped detainees (39 in federal jurisdiction and 10 in joint jurisdiction), and 13 members of the Federal Forces injured.

The Sinaloa cartel attacks included attacks on the barracks and residential areas that are part of the ninth military zone, as the shooters opened fire and deprived a police officer of a security company and a military man. on holiday.

The above, at a press conference offered in the capital of Sinaloa, led by the head of Sedena and SSPC, Alfonso Durazo Montaño. The latter stated that the peace strategy would not be abandoned as a product of justice, as the federal government did not lack status or absence in this decision because the continuation of the operation would have led to a very high risk. high and inadmissible victims between the two parties. civilian population

During the demonstration, they were also present – but they did not speak – the secretary of the navy, Admiral José Rafael Ojeda Durán; the commander of the National Guard, General Luis Rodríguez Bucio, and the head of the National Intelligence Center (formerly the Center for Research and National Security), Audomaro Martínez Zapata.

General Sandoval González told the press that the operation that triggered the violence in Culiacán, Sinaloa, was not circumstantial because it was a direct action for to apprehend a criminal (Ovid Guzmán López) who had an extradition arrest warrant issued by a federal judge, and that the group responsible for this action was the personnel of the military ministerial police and the drug division of the Ministry of Justice; former federal police, today national guard.

During the demonstration, they were also present – but they did not speak – the secretary of the navy, Admiral José Rafael Ojeda Durán; the commander of the National Guard, General Luis Rodríguez Bucio, and the head of the National Intelligence Center (formerly the Center for Research and National Security), Audomaro Martínez Zapata.

General Sandoval González told the press that the operation that triggered the violence in Culiacán, Sinaloa, was not circumstantial because it was a direct action for to apprehend a criminal (Ovid Guzmán López) who had an extradition arrest warrant issued by a federal judge, and that the group responsible for this action was the personnel of the military ministerial police and the drug division of the Ministry of Justice; former federal police, today national guard.

"We will win the peace challenge, but we will not make Mexico a graveyard bigger than it has been for so many years. We face groups that are the result of decades of political corruption and social abandonment. "

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