According to the newspaper the dayUnsuspected of belonging to the side of neoliberals and conservatives, the capture of Ovidio “N” left a balance of 29 dead, ten of them belonging to the Army and 19 suspected criminals. Added to the above are 35 wounded soldiers and 21 criminals arrested.
In the confrontation, four 50-caliber Barret rifles, six machine guns of the same caliber, 26 long weapons and two short weapons, chargers, cartridges, various tactical equipment and 13 “operational” vehicles were confiscated. 40 vans, 26 of them armored, and smaller amounts of marijuana, cocaine and fentanyl were rendered useless.
The operation, according to General Luis Cresencio Sandoval, “was the result of six months of intelligence work” and took into account what happened on October 17, 2019, during the so-called culiacanazowhen Ovidio “N” himself was arrested and later released by presidential order.
The general secretary added that a National Guard patrol was carrying out surveillance work, that is, regular tasks, when they detected six suspicious vehicles that did not comply with the instruction to stop for inspection and their occupants “began an armed attack” against the uniformed men, by At the same time they were escaping to take refuge in a building in Jesús María, a town in the municipality of Culiacán.
It is difficult to understand that after six months of intelligence work, the clash between criminals and elements of the National Guard was accidental. Likewise, it is incomprehensible that an operation planned so far in advance would have such a high cost in the lives of civilians and uniformed officers, since to the ten fallen soldiers we must add a woman who served in the National Guard, the attack against a plane on the ground that It was full of passengers and the theft of 250 vehicles, a hundred of which were set on fire in Culiacán, Mazatlán and Los Mochis and even in various parts of Sonora.
At first it was declared that there were ten soldiers who had fallen and 29 criminals, but the Sinaloan governor, Rubén Rocha Moya, hours after the events said that among the fatalities there were those who were neither soldiers nor criminals, that is, mere civilians. who fell in the fray.
Rocha Moya acknowledged that there was also robbery in self-service stores and attempts by armed people to forcibly take health personnel to attend to their wounded and, although he said that “it did not go from there”, it is doubtful that there were not some doctors and kidnapped nurses.
The most serious thing was the lack of respect for the governor of the “free and sovereign state of Sinaloa,” whom the Secretary of the Interior called “an hour and a half or two hours after the operation began,” according to Rocha Moya himself, whom Adán Augusto López did not have the kindness to notify him from the outset or give him details of what was happening, to limit himself to a recommendation: “We want you to take care of yourselves.” No less serious was that “the federal forces” resorted to the municipal and state police without notifying the Executive of the entity.
In short, an operation planned six months in advance was carried out improvised (¡¡???), without respect or notice to the local authorities, who only asked people for “patience, to continue protecting themselves and that they take care of their exits to the streets”, as Rocha Moya told them.
The next day, after the child drowned, they proceeded to cover the well with the arrival in Sinaloa of 3,500 federal troops, while the governor asked his countrymen to “relax a bit” and carry out “priority activities with the prudence that deem necessary”, surely because the demons are on the loose and, waiting for the military to withdraw, the gangsters are still there ready to retake control, as they have in other parts of the country.
Such is the price that Mexico is paying for employing the military as customs officers, air traffic controllers, highway builders, and a thousand other trades. One day hugs are offered to the criminals and the next the bullets are unleashed while the mafias continue to take over half the country or something else. Even when?
