Alfonso Durazo

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Mexico's President defends drug Kingpin Joaquín "El Chapo " Guzmán, Son , free, has, shortly after his arrest.

If Ovidio Guzmán López was seized at A House on a judge's warrant in The City of Culiacan, Cartel , armed robbers, fought street battles with security forces.

at least eight people were killed and 16 wounded, authorities say, with parked vehicles burned in The Streets .

President , Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the decision to cancel the arrest on Thursday, had saved lives.

Senior security officials had decided, on his release, The President said at a press conference. "The officials who took this decision did well," he said.

"The Capture of a criminal is worth no More Than the life of the people. "

A lawyer for the Family of Guzmán appeared in front of journalists and The President as a "human" and "Christian described". He had decided not to create "Ovidio said the damage", José Luis González Meza .

It was not a negotiation, in order to free him, he added.

Mr López Obrador was elected, on a platform from below to crack to The Mexican drug cartels, and has the task of The National Guard, a new security, the force, the fight against The Dealers .

El Chapo leadership of the Sinaloa Cartel was the largest supplier of drugs in the United States , officials say.

The leader detained earlier this year, and Ovidio Guzmán López is one of several brothers, with a hand in the leadership of The Cartel .

Thought, in his twenties, he is accused of drug trafficking in the United States .

What happens in Culiacan?

A patrol of The National guard, the militarized police came under heavy fire from A House on Thursday afternoon, security Minister Alfonso Durazo said.

The security forces fought back, found Mr Guzmán, were then forced But surrounded by armed and to retreat.

defense Minister Luis Cresencio Sandoval told reporters the operation was planned to be "bad".

Five of The Cartel members and National Guard and policemen are among The Dead , he said.

fighters attacked seen security forces in other parts of Culiacan and corpses on the road.

eye witnesses described the scenes of panic in The City , a stronghold of the Sinaloa Cartel , such as families with small children fled from gunfire.

load to set the car on fire to block the roads

- Material on Social Media showed a pick-up truck mounted with a machine gun on the back, in scenes reminiscent of A War zone.

Fifty-one prisoners escaped from Aguaruto prison during the disturbance.

Sinaloa state government is said to remain the residents to be calm and stay away from The Streets After the Chaos: The Scene showed on Friday

Other film material, to take families to scramble, cover, under cars and in shops, as the bullets were flying. In one video, a girl her father asked: "Why are you shooting bullets?"

A supposed mugshot of Mr Guzmán while he was detained by the police, widely used in the Social Media .

A source of great embarrassment

Juan Carlos Perez Salazar , BBC Mundo

It seems that, for a while, Ovidio "The mouse" Guzmán was in the hands of the police.

What followed next, if there are a large embarrassment for The Mexican government, which may not be surprising for those who know how the powerful drug cartels in parts of the Country .

Culiacan, is one of these areas. It was born in connection with the manufacture of drugs, which were in place since at least the 1940s, and some of the biggest "capos" (Drug Lords ) there. In spite of The Capture of El Chapo , his best-known leader of the Sinaloa Cartel , stark is still a monster in the region.

And for the critics of Mexico's President , this cartels lays bare the failure of his strategy against the drug. Some even say that he has no strategy at all.

What El Chapo 's role in Mexico's drug trade was?

"El Chapo " (or "Shorty") the Sinaloa Cartel in Northern Mexico.

in the course of time it became one of the largest traffickers of drugs in the United States . El Chapo escaped from a Mexican prison through a tunnel in 2015, But was later detained. He was extradited to the United States to 2017.

He has been accused, that contributed to the export of hundreds of tons of cocaine into the United States and conspiracy to manufacture and distribute heroin, methamphetamine and marijuana.

El Chapo , 62, was found guilty in New York on 10 charges, including drug laundering, trade and money.

Who are you, "El Chapo 's" children?

Guzmán was married Three Times . Estimates of The Number of offspring of wives and girlfriends, differ from eight to 15.

Ovidio Guzmán López is thought of as one of four children born to the drug-Kingpin 's second wife, Griselda Lopez Perez.

More prominently his older brothers, the Guzmán, the First marriage with Maria Alejandrina Salazar Hernandez - Ivan Archivaldo Guzman Salazar and Jesús Alfredo Guzmán Salazar , both 36.

Ivan Archivaldo a good reputation for a flamboyant lifestyle, and his wealth has developed to show that on Social Media .

The jailing of "El Chapo " raised the question of who should now Cartel , the leadership of the Sinaloa.

There are reports of infighting between some of Guzmán's Sons , known as "los chapitos", and the co-founder of the Sinaloa Cartel , Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada.

Vice news reported In July , quoting sources in The Mountains of Sinaloa state. Armed men are said to have been the apostate working for Zambada.

Jesús Alfredo wanted in the U.S. on allegations of drug trafficking and is on the most wanted list of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.

Ivan Archivaldo was also calculated by the US authorities.

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Source of news: bbc.com