According to the authorities, as a result of violent clashes between militants associated with the former drug cartel El Chapo (Joaquin Archivaldo Guzman Loera) and a rival cartel in Northern Mexico killed 19 people.
As told in the Mexican police, the melee occurred late Friday when the gangsters associated with the cartel of El Chapo Sinaloa, started a gunfight with the drug traffickers from the Juarez cartel and other gangs in the state of Chihuahua.
Gun battle between gang tied to El Chapo»s old cartel and rival group leaves 19 dead https://t.co/Zss0LAAHDj
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On Saturday, authorities discovered 18 bodies at the scene of a shooting in the town of Madera. According to police, another wounded died in hospital.
Mexican soldiers went to the area and took several weapons, including two grenades.
Recall that in January 2019, a Federal judge in Brooklyn (new York) sentenced El Chapo to life imprisonment, which created a power vacuum in the cartel, which was once considered the most prolific in the world.
In October gunmen from the cartel turned the city of Culiacan in a war zone, when Mexican authorities arrested the son of El Chapo, Ovidio Guzman Lopez.
Mexican soldiers eventually released him to «protect human life» in the face of intense shootings between cartel gunmen with weapons military level — and the Mexican authorities.
