Why Mexico is losing its war against a parallel state of drug cartels

Even for Mexico, which has become synonymous with cartel violence and drug trafficking around the world, last week was unprecedented. 

A botched military operation by the government of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (Amlo) that briefly detained the son of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán, Ovidio – an alleged drug trafficker – was forced to release him and retreat. 

On Thursday afternoon, cartel henchmen paralysed the city of Culiacán and surrounded the house in which the younger Guzmán – a power in the Sinaloa Cartel criminal empire – was being held, vastly outnumbering the soldiers inside.

The gunmen threatened to massacre those who were holding him if he wasn’t set free.

Social media was flooded with…

Click Here: Germany Football Shop