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The Chaos That Ensued In The Wake Of the Arrest Of Ovidio Guzman · The Moscow Murders and More

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Speaker 1: What's up everyone and welcome back to the program. The
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Speaker 1: wheels are coming off down in Mexico after they arrested
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Speaker 1: one of El Chapo's sons, Ovidio. Now the first time
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Speaker 1: they attempted to arrest him, it turned into bedlam. Now
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Speaker 1: the second time that they arrested him and they've kept
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Speaker 1: him in custody thus far, it is bedlam once again.
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Speaker 1: And so much so this time that the Mexican government,
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Speaker 1: they're forced to deploy tanks, and the military once again
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Speaker 1: in the streets of Mexico. If anybody thought that the
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Speaker 1: Sinaloa cartel was going to sit back and let Ovidio
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Speaker 1: get arrested and not respond, they have not been paying attention.
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Speaker 1: So let's get into this article from The Sun and
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Speaker 1: let's see what's going on down in Mexico. Headline, All
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Speaker 1: Out War. Mexico deploys tanks and soldiers to fight Sinaloa
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Speaker 1: cartel as gangsters go on the rampage after the arrest
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Speaker 1: of El Chapo's son. This article was authored by Katie
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Speaker 1: Davis and Anthony Blair. Violent clashes have erupted between the
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Speaker 1: army and gangsters from the fearsome Sinaloa cartel after the
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Speaker 1: capture of infamous gang kingpin El Chapo's son, Ovidio. With
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Speaker 1: the Mexican government deploying tanks and having armor in the streets,
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Speaker 1: they certainly have the advantage, right? But can you imagine
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Speaker 1: what's going to happen when Sinaloa gets their hands on
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Speaker 1: some of those weapons that have been earmarked for Ukraine?
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Speaker 1: And if you think they're not going to do that...
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Speaker 1: I don't know what to tell you. They're going to.
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Speaker 1: There's going to be a huge black market for those weapons.
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Speaker 1: There already is. But when that war ceases, do you
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Speaker 1: think all of that weaponry is going to come back
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Speaker 1: to the United States or back to Europe? Of course not.
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Speaker 1: It's going to be taken by warlords and arms dealers,
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Speaker 1: and it's going to be sold or traded to people
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Speaker 1: like the Sinaloa cartel. Imagine if they had some shoulder-fired rockets.
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Speaker 1: That could be a bit of a problem. No. Drug
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Speaker 1: cartel gunmen invaded Culiacan International Airport in the western Mexican
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Speaker 1: province of Sinaloa and opened fire at army planes on
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Speaker 1: Thursday in revenge for the arrest. Shocking footage appears to
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Speaker 1: show a cartel thug attempting to take down a jet
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Speaker 1: using a sniper rifle. Parts of the city of Culiacan,
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Speaker 1: a stronghold of the Sinaloa cartel, have been seized by
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Speaker 1: gang members who have carjacked residents and torched vehicles. Dramatic
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Speaker 1: pictures show cars reduced to fireballs as huge plumes of
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Speaker 1: black smoke fill the sky. And my source down in
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Speaker 1: Mexico has went dark. I haven't been able to talk
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Speaker 1: to that person in about four days now. So hopefully
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Speaker 1: the person I talk to down there, the person that
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Speaker 1: keeps me up to date on what's going on, is
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Speaker 1: not in harm's way. And the Sinaloa cartel, they're not
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Speaker 1: going to stop until they get what they want. And
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Speaker 1: if they don't give back Ovidio, you can expect some
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Speaker 1: government officials to be kidnapped very soon. That's how it
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Speaker 1: works down there. You kill one of ours, you take
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Speaker 1: one of ours, we take three of yours. And it
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Speaker 1: doesn't matter if you're the government or a competing faction.
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Speaker 1: That's how it works when you're dealing with the cartels.
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Speaker 1: The Mexican government frantically unleashed tanks and heavily armored teams
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Speaker 1: as it battles to control the violent scenes. Footage shows
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Speaker 1: a convoy of armored vehicles plowing through the streets. Another
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Speaker 1: clip appears to show heavy fighting overnight in Culiacan with
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Speaker 1: the sky lit up by helicopter gunfire. And I was
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Speaker 1: watching some video of the tracer rounds being fired in
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Speaker 1: Culiacan as these factions were battling it out with the government.
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Speaker 1: And it's surreal to watch. It is absolutely surreal to
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Speaker 1: think that this is going on in the streets of Mexico. Now,
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Speaker 1: of course, we all know how dangerous and violent it is.
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Speaker 1: But when you watch it live like that and you
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Speaker 1: realize that, you know, those bullets are winging over regular
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Speaker 1: people's homes. It really puts the plight of the Mexican
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Speaker 1: people to the forefront of the conversation. Remember, they're the
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Speaker 1: biggest victims of what's going on here. The average people
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Speaker 1: in Mexico, people like you and me who just want
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Speaker 1: to have a good life, get up, go to the store,
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Speaker 1: you know, go to the casino or whatever and live
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Speaker 1: their life. But they're not able to do that when
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Speaker 1: you have all of these madmen with 50 caliber machine
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Speaker 1: guns firing bullets over your house. State Governor Ruben Rocha
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Speaker 1: said seven members of the security forces had been killed
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Speaker 1: and 21 had been injured, as well as eight civilians.
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Speaker 1: It is understood Infantry Colonel Juan Jose Morena Orzúa, commander
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Speaker 1: of the 43rd Infantry Battalion based in Tepic, and his
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Speaker 1: four bodyguards were among those killed, reports El Universal. Reports
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Speaker 1: also claim armed groups stormed hospitals and health centers, kidnapping
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Speaker 1: doctors and nurses, and forcing them to treat cartel fighters
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Speaker 1: wounded in fighting with federal authorities. And that's their MO.
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Speaker 1: That's what they're going to do. If anyone thinks the
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Speaker 1: cartel is their friend, they're not paying attention. They can
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Speaker 1: hand out all the turkeys they want. They can hand
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Speaker 1: out all of the presents they want during Christmas. But
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Speaker 1: the fact remains that these people... are directly responsible for
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Speaker 1: the trials and tribulations of the Mexican populace. Distressing footage
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Speaker 1: shared on social media shows the floor of a hospital
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Speaker 1: covered in blood. Two ambulances have reportedly been stolen with
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Speaker 1: paramedics inside and doctors seized from several hospitals in the
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Speaker 1: Sinaloan town of Navalato. Widespread looting, has also been reported
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Speaker 1: in Culiacan, although it isn't yet known if it's the
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Speaker 1: work of cartel fighters or ordinary citizens. Authorities urged people
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Speaker 1: to stay indoors and said school and administrative offices will
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Speaker 1: be closed due to the violence. Street blockades had also
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Speaker 1: been erected, and that's one of their biggest tools. They'll
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Speaker 1: use these street blockades so that the government forces can't
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Speaker 1: get in and get the security situation under control. Or
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Speaker 1: in this instance, obviously, so they can't get any kind
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Speaker 1: of reinforcements. So they'll use burned cars, all kinds of debris,
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Speaker 1: and they'll make sure that they're funneling all traffic to
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Speaker 1: one choke point. That way they can ambush these groups
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Speaker 1: or the government as they come in to the neighborhood.
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Speaker 1: The city's airport was also caught up in the violence
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Speaker 1: with Mexican airline Aeromexico, saying one of its planes had
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Speaker 1: been hit by gunfire ahead of a scheduled flight to
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Speaker 1: Mexico City. David Telles, a passenger who boarded the plane
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Speaker 1: with his wife and three children, said they had decided
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Speaker 1: to stay in the airport until it's safe to leave.
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Speaker 1: He said the city is worse. There is a lot
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Speaker 1: of shooting and confusion. Now, think about your local airport,
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Speaker 1: wherever you live, and think about a drug gang or
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Speaker 1: a cartel taking the airport over and shooting at military planes.
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Speaker 1: Sounds insane, like it would never happen, right? Well, down
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Speaker 1: in Mexico, that's the reality that people are living with
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Speaker 1: on a daily basis. They added that the airport in Culiacan,
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Speaker 1: as well as the Sinaloa cities of Mazatlan and Las Mochas,
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Speaker 1: would remain closed until security could be insured. Horror scenes
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Speaker 1: show gunmen opening fire inside a commercial aircraft while it
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Speaker 1: taxis along the runway at Kulia Khan as terrified passengers
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Speaker 1: desperately hide behind their seats. A screaming baby can be
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Speaker 1: heard in the background amid the gunfire. And these guys
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Speaker 1: don't care. You really think these cartel members give a
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Speaker 1: shit about people? These are the very people that they're
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Speaker 1: extorting on a regular basis. That's something people don't ever
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Speaker 1: talk about, really. The fact that these Mexican vendors, people
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Speaker 1: that are working on the street, hot dog salesmen, people
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Speaker 1: who are, you know, running little stores, they all have
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Speaker 1: to pay up. They all have to kick a few
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Speaker 1: bucks up to whoever the local boss is so that
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Speaker 1: they can have their quote unquote protection. And it's no
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Speaker 1: more than the old extortion racket that the mafia used
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Speaker 1: to run in the old days. Oh, you need security. No,
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Speaker 1: I don't. They throw a brick through your window. Do
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Speaker 1: you need security now? My guy will be around every week.
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Speaker 1: You better have 300 bucks for me. And that's how
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Speaker 1: it works down in Mexico too. And the people of Mexico,
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Speaker 1: at what point is enough enough? How long are the
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Speaker 1: Mexican people going to live under feckless leadership and the
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Speaker 1: rule of drug gangs? It comes after Ovidio, a son
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Speaker 1: of jailed kingpin Joaquin El Chapo Guzman, was arrested on
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Speaker 1: Wednesday night by Mexican security forces ahead of a visit
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Speaker 1: by U.S. President Joe Biden next week. The U.S. had
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Speaker 1: offered a $ 5 million reward for information leading to Ovidio's
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Speaker 1: arrest or conviction. It is not clear whether Ovidio will
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Speaker 1: be extradited to the United States, like his father, who
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Speaker 1: is serving a life sentence, at Colorado's Supermax, the most
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Speaker 1: secure U.S. federal prison. Ovidio was briefly captured in 2019
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Speaker 1: before security forces were forced to free him after the
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Speaker 1: cartel launched an all-out war in response on the streets
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Speaker 1: of Culiacan. And they're trying to do that same thing
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Speaker 1: now once again, but the Mexican government has responded with
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Speaker 1: great prejudice here. Very rarely are they rolling out the
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Speaker 1: tanks in the streets down in Mexico. But they felt
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Speaker 1: like it was a worthy time to do that and
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Speaker 1: that if they didn't do that, they probably wouldn't get
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Speaker 1: a handle on the security situation. But this is long
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Speaker 1: from over. The longer they keep Ovidio in their custody,
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Speaker 1: the more rambunctious the Los Chapitos and Sinaloa are going
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Speaker 1: to become. He has allegedly helped to run the infamous
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Speaker 1: Sinaloa cartel since the extradition of his father in 2017.
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Speaker 1: Ovidio has also been accused by the U.S. State Department,
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Speaker 1: along with his brother Joaquin, of currently overseeing some 11
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Speaker 1: meth labs in Sinaloa State, producing up to 2,200 kilograms
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Speaker 1: of the drug per month. Authorities believe he is also
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Speaker 1: behind the murders of informants, a rival drug trafficker, and
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Speaker 1: a popular Mexican singer who refused to sing at his wedding.
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Speaker 1: Imagine being a singer who And having someone like one
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Speaker 1: of the Guzman sons come up to you and they're like, look,
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Speaker 1: I want you to sing at my wedding. And then
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Speaker 1: having the Stones to tell him no. Certainly not a
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Speaker 1: word Ovidio Guzman is used to hearing. The country's defense secretary,
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Speaker 1: Luis Crensesio Sandoval, has confirmed that he has already been
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Speaker 1: flown secretly to Mexico City to avoid a repeat of 2019.
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Speaker 1: El Chapo is currently serving life in prison in the U.S.
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Speaker 1: for trafficking hundreds of tons of drugs into the United
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Speaker 1: States over a 25-year period. The 65-year-old was convicted in
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Speaker 1: 2019 of trafficking worth billions of dollars, as well as
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Speaker 1: conspiring to murder his enemies. But the cartel remains one
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Speaker 1: of the most powerful in Mexico and one of the
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Speaker 1: largest drug trafficking organizations in the world. That's an understatement.
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Speaker 1: The only cartel in Mexico that even comes close to
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Speaker 1: rivaling Sinaloa is CJNG. The arrest of Ovidio 32 would
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Speaker 1: represent a major coup for the Mexican government in the
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Speaker 1: war on drugs ahead of Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez
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Speaker 1: Obrador's meeting with Biden next week at a summit for
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Speaker 1: the North American leaders. President Obrador's left-wing government had previously
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Speaker 1: been accused of going soft on the cartel's after he
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Speaker 1: said that violent tactics of his predecessors in response to
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Speaker 1: the cartels had failed and only led to more bloodshed. Instead,
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Speaker 1: he called for a strategy of hugs, not bullets. The
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Speaker 1: strategy of hugs and not bullets, well, that sounds great
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Speaker 1: on the campaign trail. Until you get into office and
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Speaker 1: you realize that these cartels, they're playing for keeps. And
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Speaker 1: they're going to be violent. They're going to push the envelope.
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Speaker 1: And they're going to do everything in their power to
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Speaker 1: make sure that they're the ones calling the shots. So
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Speaker 1: AMLO here has had to adjust on the fly. And
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Speaker 1: now he's relying more on military tactics to finally bring
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Speaker 1: his heel down on the Sinaloa cartel. All right, folks,
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