VIDEO: the day "El Mencho" kidnapped children from "El Chapo" Guzmán

The children of Guzmán Loera have been warned not to approach Puerto Vallarta (video: file)

On August 15, 2016, what happened could have happened the worst of wars between drug cartels: a commando kidnapped a group of guests who had gone to the restaurant La Leche, Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, to celebrate a birthday.

Puerto Vallarta is a place that the Sinaloa Cartel challenged for years the brothers Arellano Felix and that over the years it has become an area under the control of Cartel Jalisco New Generation (CJNG).

Jesús Alfredo Guzman Salazar, Iván Archivaldo Guzmán, the children of "El Chapo" Guzmán and 18 other people have apparently celebrated the birthday of the latter, when a order entered the establishment, separated women and He took six men, including the two chapitos -as the brothers are known.

The place He was guarded by at least 16 bodyguards Guzman heirs but They were outnumbered by their rivals, It was about 50 men.

In a video shows how the order submitted the children of Guzmán Loera, one of the men kicking Ivan Archivaldo in the ribswho lay on the ground and then entered the place a man who waved him to take another unarmed subject.

On different occasions "the chapitos" would have received warnings per party of the CJNG do not "invade" their territory, but chose to ignore them. "El Chapo" received the news in his cell in a maximum security prison in Mexico.

Ignacio Cadena Beraud, owner of La Leche, mentioned that the irruption of men was terribly violent, but without injury or bloodshed.

At that time, the CJNG not only disputed places in Sinaloa, but within the cartel founded by Chapo Guzmán, there had been a dispute with the group of "Dámasos", directed by Dámaso López Núñez "El Licenciado" and his son, Dámaso López Serrano "El Mini Lic", who had started a battle for withdraw the order to Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada and to the chapitos.

Mexican authorities have even pointed out that the kidnapping was orchestrated by "Los Dámasos" in alliance with the CJNG with the intention of moving the "Mayo" and the children of "El Chapo".

Five days later, the chips were released. Early versions emphasized that in the negotiation they had participated, in addition to "El Mayo", Rafael Caro Quintero, one of the founders of the late Guadalajara Cartel, currently on the run from justice, and the same government Mexican who was trying to avoid a bloodbath in case the children of Guzmán Loera did not come out unscathed.

L & # 39; s weekly Ríodoce, of Sinaloa, published that after the kidnapping Rubén Oseguera "El Menchito", son of "El Mencho", imprisoned since 2015, was confined and subjected to constant pressure until the liberation of the chapitos.

The cartel of Sinaloa would have applied the threat that if the children of Guzmán Loera did not appear alivethey would apply the law of "eye for eye, tooth for tooth".

& # 39; & # 39;Nemesio Oseguera did not want to give his arm to twistthat is why they pressured him while his son was in prison, "the weekly told a person close to the process.

& # 39; & # 39;In the strongest negotiation, the federal government is involved, the son of & quot; El Mencho & # 39; was involved as a bargaining factor, and Rafael Caro Quintero himself; this prevented that a flurry of violence took place, "said the publication.

This was the preamble to the violent war that is now waged by the two cartels.