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Mexican city erupts in violence, residents ordered to stay indoors after drug cartel leader's arrest
CBC News ^ | Jan 05, 2023

Posted on 01/06/2023 10:21:50 AM PST by jerod

Multiple airports in Sinaloa state are closed after an Aeromexico flight was reportedly hit by gunfire

Canada's government is urging Canadians in Mexico's Sinaloa state to limit their movements and shelter in place amid an outbreak of violence in the country's northwest following the arrest of a notorious drug cartel's leader.

Mexican authorities on Thursday confirmed the arrest of Ovidio Guzman, a 32-year-old senior member of the Sinaloa Cartel and a son of jailed kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.

His arrest unleashed a violent backlash by gang gunmen on Thursday that shut the airport in the city of Culiacan as authorities told residents to stay indoors.

Videos shared on social media appeared to show heavy fighting overnight in Culiacan, the main city in the northern state of Sinaloa, with the sky lit up by helicopter gunfire.

The city's airport was the target of violence, with Mexican airline Aeromexico saying one of its planes had been hit by gunfire ahead of a scheduled flight to Mexico City. No one was hurt, the airline said, but the airport was closed until Thursday night.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Mexico; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aeromexico; airliner; cartelviolence; culiacan; elchapo; guzman; joaquinguzman; ovidioguzman; sinaloa; sinaloacartel
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Anybody who's ever watched the NETFLIX series Narco's knows that visiting Sinaloa is one of the dumbest moves anybody could make.
1 posted on 01/06/2023 10:21:50 AM PST by jerod
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To: jerod

and yet, the border remains wide open


2 posted on 01/06/2023 10:25:45 AM PST by PGR88
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To: jerod

Call the Cartel what they are, Insurgents.


3 posted on 01/06/2023 10:26:22 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: jerod

Ovidio Guzman would be allowed to vote in California. Just saying.


4 posted on 01/06/2023 10:27:59 AM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: jerod

Private gun ownership is illegal in Mexico. Only the government is permitted to have them.
Therefore this cannot be happening.
Just like Chicago.


5 posted on 01/06/2023 10:29:59 AM PST by TonyinLA ( I don't have sufficient information to make an informed opinion said no lefty ever.)
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To: jerod

Visiting certain parts of Mexico has been a risk for decades. It’s a shame.


6 posted on 01/06/2023 10:30:12 AM PST by newzjunkey (How does GA end up with 2 Dem senators & 100% GOP statewide officials??? UGH)
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To: jerod

El Chapocito


7 posted on 01/06/2023 10:31:22 AM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: PGR88

And they are flooding OUR streets.

Ammo is still available.


8 posted on 01/06/2023 10:33:43 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: jerod

Every country has no-go zones, I guess.


9 posted on 01/06/2023 10:34:17 AM PST by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.for corruptiion)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Exactly.

They hold vast amounts of territory.

they have their own well armed/ trained law enforcement and military.

They have economics operations and GDP bigger than many countries.

they have ambassadors and de facto embassies and conduct nation to nation negotiations.


10 posted on 01/06/2023 10:34:52 AM PST by uranium penguin
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To: jerod

The Mazatlan Gold Zone is kept safe enough.


11 posted on 01/06/2023 10:36:18 AM PST by bobcat62
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Don’t drink the water


12 posted on 01/06/2023 10:38:32 AM PST by notdownwidems (Washington D.C. has become the enemy of free people everywhere!)
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To: TonyinLA

Let’s send Little Lori down there and see how big her dick is then...


13 posted on 01/06/2023 10:42:08 AM PST by VideoPaul
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To: newzjunkey

I wonder if Acapulco is still a vacation hotspot for Americans. I remember a lot of hollywood celebrities and actors had vacation homes there at one time, including John Wayne, etc.


14 posted on 01/06/2023 10:49:18 AM PST by desertsolitaire
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“Every country has no-go zones, I guess.”

And Mexico’s got a lot of them!

Go to the State Department’s travel advisory for Mexico:

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/international-travel/International-Travel-Country-Information-Pages/Mexico.html

It’s such a freaking mess that State actually has different alerts for all of the Mexican states. Some are obviously worse than others though.


15 posted on 01/06/2023 10:53:05 AM PST by MplsSteve
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“Private gun ownership is illegal in Mexico.”

They may own one small caliber firearm for home defense.


16 posted on 01/06/2023 10:56:57 AM PST by dljordan
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What do you mean. I just booked a vacation there.
All inclusive.
It was such a deal.

(S)


17 posted on 01/06/2023 10:57:20 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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Private gun ownership is illegal in Mexico.

Not true.

18 posted on 01/06/2023 11:23:07 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: dljordan

38 Super is popular there.


19 posted on 01/06/2023 11:23:35 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: jerod

“Symptoms of a blood clot include: throbbing or cramping pain, swelling, redness and warmth in a leg or arm. sudden breathlessness, sharp chest pain (may be worse when you breathe in) and a cough or coughing up blood.”

Clot shots, anyone?

https://www.google.com/search?q=blood+clots+myalgia


20 posted on 01/06/2023 11:32:03 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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