Marcos Vizcarra/ Reform Agency
Monday, January 09, 2023 | 12:16
Culiacan, Mexico.- In Jesús María, a union with 5,000 inhabitants, according to data from the Culiacán City Council, post-traumatic stress is experienced.
The main problem of violence was recorded in that area due to the capture of Ovidio Guzmán López, son of drug lord Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán, on January 5, in an operation that left 30 people dead, 19 of them armed civilians.
“There are needs that citizens are having. The needs are real, they require the support and attention of social work,” said Cristóbal Castañeda Camarillo, Secretary of Public Security of Sinaloa, at a press conference.
The operation began at dawn on Thursday, January 5, in the town of Jesús María, where Ovidio Guzmán lived after he was surprised in the Tres Ríos subdivision, on October 19, 2019.
The son of El Chapo has a search file for the United States Government for the crimes of “conspiracy to distribute cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana from Mexico and other places for importation into the United States,” according to the file prepared. by the Drug Enforcement Administration of that country (DEA).
Here he was detained in 2019, but hours later he was released by order of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
On that occasion, Culiacán was paralyzed with an arms force superior to that of the Army, the National Guard and the Police that were in the capital of Sinaloa on the afternoon of that October 19.
Last Thursday, it was different, the operation began at dawn in a town north of Culiacán, but that did not matter, there were armed men stripping civilians of their vehicles everywhere.
They set fires with courage, in revenge for the fact that Guzmán Loera’s son was now detained in one of the most vulnerable ways: while he was sleeping on the ranch where he was born and grew up.
They totaled 18 blockades, two state police officers killed, two planes shot at – one commercial and another from the Army -, dozens of vehicles set on fire and looting.
Everything was reactivated the next day, but in Jesús María there was a town emotionally torn to pieces. There were women and men who saw their children die, families who lost their assets used as barriers and trenches.
Just on January 7, the authorities visited the town and the first approach was to provide 500 stoves with grills and 500 blankets.
They also brought medical and nursing services to care for 60 injured people, but what was found is that the most serious injuries are in the minds and hearts of the inhabitants of Jesús María.
“What we detect the most is post-traumatic stress. Today a health caravan will be sent,” said Cuitláhuac González Galindo, Secretary of Health of Sinaloa, in a conference.
Four days after the operation, there will be psychological attention, the repair of the walls impacted by the bullets will begin, and there will be a survey of material and emotional damage.
