The day they killed the son of “Chapo” Guzmán: 500 bullets and the roses of Culiacán were not enough

Édgar Guzmán López was not just any young man. His power extended to the Sinaloa cartel. He is one of the sons of the “chief of the chefs”, Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán.

Guzmán López, who sealed his conviction in the name, left the Sinaloan mothers without flowers on May 10, 2008, as they were used for his funeral.

That of the firstborn of “El Chapo ”was not a normal death. On May 8, while Edgar was in a shopping mall in the urban development of Tres Ríos, uA group of armed men shot the young man at close range. Local chronicles speak of the melee being fired 500 shots.

Edgar was accompanied by his cousin, César Ariel Loera and Arturo Meza Cázares, son of Blanca Margarita Cázares, alias “La Emperatriz”, also dead in the attack.

According to the widow of the deceased, Frida Muñoz Román, Édgar was killed by the contract killers of Belltrán Leyva. Together with her two-year-old daughter, Frida learned that her husband had been murdered and that it was she who had identified the body.

50 thousand red roses in Culiacán

After the death of Edgar Guzmán, the sadness of “El Chapo” was so large that he ordered all of Culiacán’s roses to be purchased for burial, consolidating this act as a historic event.

The act of the capo would not have left time for the vendors to stock up on flowers for Mother’s Day. After the event was born a corrido interpreted by the singer Lupillo Rivera, called 50 thousand roses.

“50 thousand red roses were sold in Culiacán arriving on May 10 ready to celebrate, but a few days before Edgar Guzmán left us (…) The pile of roses did not send any mother, all were for a man who ‘they always respected,’ he reads. the race.

“It is not their fault that they are the children of El Chapo” “

Griselda López Pérez, mother of Edgar Guzmán, surprised and reluctant at the news, assured that it was not the young man’s fault that he was the son of the leader of the Sinaloa cartel.

The drug trafficker’s ex-wife said: “Tired as a mother that her children are considered drug traffickers. I lost a son because of the wars they caused ”.

In the mid-1980s, Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán married for the second time Griselda López, also known as Karla Pérez Rojo. In 2010, the woman was arrested in 2010, only to be released.

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