Operation Sinaloa
| Operation Sinaloa | ||||||||
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| Part of Mexican Drug War | ||||||||
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| Belligerents | ||||||||
| Sinaloa Cartel |
Beltrán-Leyva Cartel Los Zetas | |||||||
| Commanders and leaders | ||||||||
 Felipe Calderón Guillermo Galván Galván |
Joaquín Guzmán Loera Ismael Zambada García Ignacio Coronel Villarreal |
Héctor Beltrán Leyva Mario Alberto Beltrán Leyva[1] Edgar Valdez Villarreal Sergio Villarreal Barragán | ||||||
Operation Sinaloa or Operation Culiacan - Navolato (Spanish: Operacion Sinaloa/Operacion Conjunto Sinaloa) is a ongoing Anti-drug trafficking operation in the Mexican state of Sinaloa by the Federal Police and the Mexican Armed Forces. Its main objective is to cripple all cartel organizations such as the Sinaloa Cartel, Beltrán-Leyva Cartel and Los Zetas that operate in that state. The Military was deployed in response to the murder of Mexico's Federal Police commissioner Édgar Eusebio Millán Gómez.
Background
President Felipe Calderón's government ordered massive raids on drug cartels upon assuming office in December 2006 in response to an increasingly deadly spate of violence in his home state of Michoacan. The decision to intensify drug enforcement operations has led to an ongoing conflict between the federal government and the Mexican drug cartels. Sinaloa is home to the Sinaloa cartel and Beltrán-Leyva Cartel who are at war with eachother since there break in 2008 due to the arrest of Alfredo Beltrán Leyva (a.k.a.: El Mochomo) on January 20, 2008. The arrest of Alfredo Beltrán Leyva (a.k.a.: El Mochomo) on January 20, 2008,[2] was a huge blow to the Sinaloa Cartel, as he allegedly oversaw large-scale drug-smuggling operations and was a key money launderer for the cartel. In apparent revenge for the arrest of his brother Alfredo, Arturo ordered the assassination of the commissioner of the Federal Police, Édgar Eusebio Millán Gómez and other top federal officials in the Mexican capital.[3][4] One group of these hit men was captured in a Mexico City house with dozens of assault rifles, pistols, grenade launchers, 30 hand grenades, and bullet-proof jackets bearing the legend FEDA — the Spanish acronym for 'Special Forces of Arturo'. Apparently, the Beltrán Leyva brothers blamed their boss Joaquin "Chapo" Guzmán for their brother's arrest,[5] and ordered the assassination of Guzmán's son,[6] 22 year-old Édgar Guzmán López, which was carried out in a shopping center parking lot by at least 15 gunmen using assault rifles and grenade launchers.[7]
2008
- May 11, 2008 - Alfonso Gutiérrez Loera cousin of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán Loera and 5 other drug traffickers were arrested after a shootout with Federal Police officers in Culiacan, Sinaloa. Along with the captured suspects, 16 assault rifles, 3 grenades, 102 magazines and 3,543 ammunition rounds were seized.[8]
- May 13 - Secretary of the Interior Juan Camilo Mouriño announces the launch of Operation Sinaloa by deploying 3,000 Army and Federal Police troops to Sinaloa.[9][10] That day, 300 Mexican troops in a 50 vehicle convoy arrived in the city of Navolato.[11]
References
- ^ [http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2009/12/19/index.php?section=politica&article=005n1pol Entre Mario Alberto Beltrán, La Barbie y El Lazca está el sucesor de El jefe de jefes ]
- ^ "Major Mexican drug cartel suspects arrested, officials say". CNN News. January 20, 2008. Retrieved 2009-08-03.
{{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - ^ Planearon los Beltrán Leyva homicidio de Edgar Millán: PFP
- ^ Mexico plagued by new wave of gangland murders
- ^ "Mexican Drug Cartels: Government Progress and Growing Violence". STRATFOR Global Intelligence. December 11, 2008. Retrieved 2009-08-25.
- ^ Revela laptop operaciones de los Beltrán Leyva
- ^ Sinaloa, en jaque por la violencia tras ser asesinado hijo del Chapo
- ^ http://www.esmas.com/noticierostelevisa/mexico/731391.html
- ^ http://www.esmas.com/noticierostelevisa/mexico/732092.html
- ^ http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1341515720080513
- ^ http://www.esmas.com/noticierostelevisa/mexico/732073.html