Is it true that Mexico cannot defeat a drug lord by releasing his son?

In Mexico, drug traffickers are even powerful enough to make the government compromise. Recently, Ovidio Guzman, the son of the world’s largest drug lord Joaquin Guzman, was arrested and brought to justice by Mexican special police. This seemingly "successful" arrest operation turned the city of Culiacan in northern Mexico into a "battlefield." According to the Global Times citing the British "Guardian" report, on October 17, local time, due to Ovidio's arrest, hundreds of militants rushed to the streets of Culiacan, shooting arbitrarily and blowing up many cars. The scene was engulfed in flames. A fierce gun battle broke out between the security forces who arrived and the militants.

These armed drug traffickers were even equipped with at least one heavy machine gun. The continuous shooting suppressed the local police, while countless civilians screamed and tried to flee the area. The entire city seemed to have become a battlefield. According to Mexican Security Minister Alfonso Durazo, they detained Ovidio in a house that day, but because drug traffickers had set up informants within the police, a large number of drug traffickers soon went to the place and violently besieged the Mexican security officer. Security forces, trying to rob people. At the same time, dozens of armed men equipped with "heavy weapons" surrounded the local police station and threatened the police to release Ovidio.

Witnesses said that during the exchange of fire between the two sides, the entire city was plunged into panic, and a gas station and many nearby cars caught fire. In the end, the Mexican police could not withstand the overwhelming number of people and firepower of the opponent, and finally had no choice but to release Ovidio "in order to restore peace in the city." It is very ironic that after Ovidio was released, the lawyer of the Guzman family deliberately publicly "thanked" the Mexican police, which was full of provocation.

Mexican President Andres Obrador publicly stated at a press conference on the 18th that "the Mexican police's decision to release Ovidio was correct." He argued: This decision It's to protect people... We don't want to see death, we don't want war. But ironically, on the 17th, militants belonging to the Guzman family carried out at least 14 attacks, killing at least 8 people and injuring more than 20 people. Not long ago, on October 14, drug traffickers staged an ambush, resulting in the deaths of 15 Mexican police officers. These bloody examples tell the whole world the fact that Mexico is not refusing to ban drugs “for the sake of peace,” but that it is simply incapable of banning drugs.