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The Government of Mexico showed on Wednesday a video of the failed operation carried out in the city of Culiacán, in the northwestern state of Sinaloa, on October 17 in which Ovidio Guzmán, son of drug trafficker Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman , was shows without offering resistance and asking to stop the violence.

"Stop everything, listen, I gave myself up, stop everything, please. Now stop everything, now calmly, and by no means. Tell them to leave. But tell them, I don't want there to be heartbreaking anymore. I don't want it anymore Please be mad! ", Ovidio Guzmán is heard saying in the video.

The recording shows that at 15.17 hours in Mexico City (14.17 hours in Culiacán and 20.17 GMT) -when the city was already in full chaos- Guzmán goes out to a parking lot with his hands on his head and, after being placed against the wall, he makes a phone call in which he asks one of his brothers to stop violence against citizenship .

Previously, before the call, a woman who accompanied him was visibly nervous, asking for explanation from the elements of the National Defense Secretariat (Sedena) and the National Guard. They ask him to calm down and tell him that they are not members of criminal groups.

According to the head of the Sedena, Luis Cresencio Sandoval, half an hour after the event of the video, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador was informed of what was happening. Approximately one hour after the operation, vehicles with armed people were reported surrounding the house where the operation was carried out, and also the military bases of operations of Cosalá, Costa Rica and El Fuerte, where part of the military personnel of said bases.

Hours later, Ovid Guzman was released when the Mexican government was overtaken by the powerful Sinaloa cartel.

The Government of Mexico made the decision to release the son of Chapo on the grounds that this could protect the lives of the citizens of Culiacán .

President López Obrador has defended on several occasions that he endorsed said decision of his security cabinet because his security strategy does not go through a direct confrontation with organized crime , but by addressing the social causes that incline people to crime.

This Wednesday, the Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection, Alfonso Durazo, reiterated that his confidence in the security plan despite the fact that the operation was unsuccessful, which he described as "precipitated" action. "We decided not to continue with the conservative idea of ​​the war against the narco, that warmongering strategy not only brought violence from the public power but also the security institutions themselves became protagonists of that violence, as could have happened in Culiacán", Durazo said.

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