The assailants have been identified as belonging to the dominant criminal group in the state, the Jalisco New Generation cartel, according to the state attorney, while the victims are all believed to be from the rival Sinaloa cartel headed by Guzman in the neighbouring state of Sinaloa.
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Experts said that it could be the latest in a string of attacks against Guzman’s family, perhaps suggesting that the drug lord had lost control of his Sinaloa cartel.
“It could indicate an escalation”, Samuel Logan, managing partner at the business and security consulting firm Southern Pulse, said of the kidnapping.
Authorities fear the mass abduction of Sinaloa Cartel members will make the ongoing war between the drug gangs even deadlier. “That’s a pretty gutsy move”.
” ‘The subjects enter, control the diners, separate the women to a side and violently take them (the men),’ he said in an interview with The Associated Press prior to the news conference”. Authorities said they had not heard of anyone demanding a ransom.
Investigators said it was likely part of a settling of scores between rival drug cartels.
In June an armed gang broke into the home of El Chapo’s mum to steal cars and jewellery. “And if anything I think it will be the next week to 10 days are going to confirm that”.
It would be the latest sign the Sinaloa cartel’s dominance is not what it once was.
He purportedly ran affairs from prison until his second escape in 2015, and when recaptured was placed under stricter security measures.
Raul Benitez, a security specialist and political scientist at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, told the AP that Ivan was “a bit insane”.
Jesus Alfredo Guzman has always been on the radar of authorities.
He is wanted on drugs charges by the US. That same year, Mexican marines mistakenly arrested a used vehicle salesman and presented him to the press as Jesus Alfredo.
“They were not tourists or residents who work in legal activities”, Almaguer said.
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Jalisco Attorney General Eduardo Almaguer earlier told Radio Formula that “it is presumed”, though not yet certain, that Ivan Archivaldo Guzman was among those kidnapped around 1 a.m.at La Leche restaurant on the city’s main boulevard by five gunmen.
