On October 18, the Mexican security police attempted to arrest Ovidio Guzmán, who is believed to have taken over the role of leader of the Sinaloa cartel after his father "El Chapo". However, the arrest became a failure as fighting between the cartel and the security police broke out and the forces were forced to release Ovidio Guzmán and retreat when the drug cartel surrounded the house where he was held.

The fighting lasted for an hour and the violence spread throughout the city. The cartel set up roadblocks and residents were urged by the authorities to stay inside.

- It was a poorly planned strategy, admits Defense Minister Luis Cresencio Sandoval, according to the AFP news agency.

President, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, said after the incident that it was right to interrupt when many people's lives were at risk.

The intervention is criticized

The effort receives constant public criticism. Security analyst Alejandro Hope writes on Twitter that the operation is "a disaster no matter how you look at it".

"The only thing worse than trying to catch a capo (leader of a criminal organization) without proper planning and triggering a full-scale hit is to try to catch a capo without proper planning and trigger a full-scale hit, and then release him," he continues. .

The clip above shows the recently released images of the failed arrest