Culiacán Oct 17: US DEA was in the House; Sinaloa Cartel Sicarios are Now an Army

Yaqui for Borderland Beat from: Aristegui y EjeCentral

            Members of the Sinaloa Cartel are no longer simple hitmen; "It's an army": Journalist
The guard of the leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel are no longer simple hitmen, it is a very well armed and trained army. The DEA located the children of "El Chapo" Guzmán Loera and was in the entity on the day of the failed operation in Culiacán, ie Jueves Negro or Black Thursday.

Before they were simple hit men, good at shooting and loyal to the Sinaloa Cartel. But the territorial struggle of this group with the Zetas forced them to form an "elite group" dedicated to protecting their leaders and their families, said María Idalia Gómez, editorial director of Axis Central.

In an interview for Aristegui Live , the journalist explained that this group was trained by defectors from the Mexican armed forces, as well as mercenaries from the United States and Middle Eastern countries. VIDEO at bottom of Next Page.

“They have training camps. They are trained in handling different types of weapons, in tactics, in strategies and with defined profiles. ”

This has allowed, over the years, a paramilitary group capable of planning evasion operations such as the one seen in Culiacán, but also clandestine operations in other cities of the country, according to intelligence reports obtained by Axis Central.

“They have the handling of weapons to (carry out) assaults on cities, for melee confrontation, and also for taking control of territories from weapons of much greater capacity , which allows them to break armor and shoot helicopters.”

The journalist explained that the members of these armies “are no longer those that we saw before with a hat, a piteate belt and boots , they are already a structure that receives orders, and that they were able to take the line of operations of the federal forces that were operating in Sinaloa, facing a very bad operation. ”

A report published by Axis Central, entitled "The DEA Operates in Enemy Territory" , revealed that on October 17, the day of the failed capture operation of Ovidio Guzmán, agents of the US drug agency, the DEA, were in Sinaloa. Link to Full Report HERE,  (although I may post it.)

Taking into account that the US authorities requested his arrest , that they mobilized the Mexican institutions to try to achieve it and obtained the arrest warrant for extradition purposes, María Idalia Gómez believes that the United States government was aware that the operation was going to happen.

" There is data on how the DEA was accompanying, " said Gomez, and made reference to other anti-drug operations carried out in Mexican territory that have had the participation or accompaniment of the drug agency.

" The same with "El Chapo" Joaquín Guzmán Loera both times he was arrested, with information and with members of the DEA present."

Unlike other occasions, the presence of DEA agents in Sinaloa was made public through photographs and press releases, possibly because the Agency sought to justify its presence in Mexico on a budgetary basis.