Children armed with cartel guns after arrest of El Chapo's son
Jamie Johnson
January 07 2023 02:30 AM
Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel is arming children with rifles to fight the security forces, after its leader Ovidio Guzman was arrested .
In Culiacan, a city in the north west of the country, cartel members have set cars and trucks ablaze at several intersections in the city, creating at least 19 roadblocks in response to the capture of the son of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman on Thursday.
Schools, public buildings and many private businesses have been closed.
An additional 1,000 military personnel were due to arrive in the region yesterday.
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Mr Guzman is accused of being one of the leaders of the infamous Sinaloa cartel, which is responsible for sending thousands of kilos of fentanyl and other drugs into America as well as committing other violent crimes in Mexico. He is likely to be extradited and could end up in an American jail, like his father.
As the Sinaloa cartel gears up for a revenge fight against Mexican security forces, a video shows two young boys with rifles sharing the front passenger seat of a car, while an older male appears to be coordinating with other gang members via radio.
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Mr Guzman is being held at Altiplano maximum security prison.
https://archive.ph/TEK6T#selection-2707.0-2707.61
Or:
https://www.independent.ie/world-news/latin-america/children-armed-with-cartel-guns-after-arrest-of-el-chapos-son-42268561.html
Altiplano prison, father Chapo's alma mater, as well.
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https://www.storybench.org/visualizing-mexicos-drug-cartels-roundup-maps/
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United States: Areas of Influence
of Major Mexican Transnational
Criminal Organizations
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(U) Overview
(U) Mexican transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) pose the greatest criminal drug threat to the United
States; no other group is currently positioned to challenge them. These Mexican poly-drug organizations traffic
heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine, and marijuana throughout the United States, using established transportation
routes and distribution networks. They control drug trafficking across the Southwest Border and are moving to
expand their share, particularly in the heroin and methamphetamine markets.
(U) Background
(U) These maps reflect data from the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) Consolidated
Priority Organization Target (CPOT) program to depict the areas of influence in the United States for major
Mexican cartels (see Figure 1). A review of Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) information on Mexican
CPOTs as of May 2015, identified the following cartels that operate cells within the United States: the Sinaloa
Cartel, Gulf Cartel, Juarez Cartel, Knights Templar (Los Caballeros Templarios or LCT), Beltran-Leyva
Organization (BLO), Jalisco New Generation Cartel (Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion or CJNG), Los Zetas,
and Las Moicas. The pie charts seen on the maps show the percentage of cases attributed to specific Mexican
cartels in an individual DEA office area of responsibility.
(U) Figure 1: Areas of Influence of Major Mexican T
More:
https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2018-07/dir06515.pdf
to escape the realities of life in "the best country in the world". 
If everyone who uses drugs in the U.S. could see the death, misery, shattered families, and government corruption their drug use causes, they might think twice about ever taking that first hit, toke, shot, snort etc. It's no laughing matter, that's for sure.
