The Mexican government has admitted the release of the son of "El Chapo" Guzmán to avoid a bloodbath in Sinaloa

The president of MexicoAndrés Manuel López Obrador, admitted that the release of Ovid Guzman, son of the famous Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán went to avoid endangering "people's lives". The decision involves a to surrender against drug trafficking.

The leftist leader acknowledged that the situation "was becoming very difficult" in Culiacán, where the author of the offense had been detained for a few hours. The city was besieged by bullets and violence – and, being "threatened" by many citizens, it was decided to release her.

"The capture of a criminal can not be worth more than the lives of people. They (the security cabinet) made the decision to release him and I saved him, "said the president at the press conference of his usual morning, this time from the city of Oaxaca, in the south of country.

"Being surrounded by a force majeure and all the deployment of aggression against the population, as well as by the fact of not having received the search warrant as soon as possible, he was ordered to leave the building" where was Ovidio Guzmán, said Alfonso Durazo, Minister of Security. .

Defense Minister Luis Sandoval acknowledged that this episode was the product of "a poorly planned strategy".

AMLO, as they call their president in Mexico City, explained "there was a very violent reaction of criminals"before the operation of the army and that" the lives of many people could not be endangered ".

He insisted that his decision be made to protect the citizens because "you can not extinguish the fire with fire".

"We do not want dead, we do not want war, it's hard to understand but the strategy that was applied before turned the country into a graveyard", expressed in reference to the governments of Felipe Calderón (2006-2012) and Enrique Peña Nieto (2012-2018), in which are estimated more than 250 000 deaths and more than 40 000 missing due to the so-called war against drug traffic.

The event in Culiacán reflected the huge control of Sinaloa cartel and its cells on the region considered relatively pacified in recent months.