This Is How The Sinaloa Cartel Defeated The Mexican Army

Cartel gunmen are seen outside during clashes with federal forces following the detention of Ovidio Guzman, son of drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, in Culiacan, Sinaloa state, Mexico October 17, 2019. REUTERS/Jesus Bustamante/File Photo

Ted Galen Carpenter, The American Conservative: How the Sinaloa Drug Cartel Clobbered the Mexican Army

While Americans obsess with events on the other side of the globe, a state is losing its grip just over our border.

While American media outlets have been trashing the Trump administration over its abandonment of America’s “noble Kurdish allies” in Syria, they have paid little attention to an extraordinary and alarming development in Mexico. This week, criminals actually declared open season on the Mexican government—and won.

As part of an ongoing campaign against the country’s powerful cartels, Mexican security forces arrested two sons of former Sinaloa cartel kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman in mid-October. Presently, the elder Guzman languishes in a maximum security prison in the United States. Mexican officials seemed to believe that taking his sons out of commission might sound the death knell for the rump Sinaloa organization.

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Previous Post: The Mexican Government And Its Army Were Defeated This Week By The Sinaloa Cartel (October 19, 2019).

WNU Editor: Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador should reconsider this .... Mexican President Obrador Wants To Disband The Nation's Army (July 1, 2019). Obrador’s newly created National Guard is clearly not up to the task.

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