>> The wildest story involving El Chapo's son in Mexico.
His name is Ovidio Guzman Lopez and here's what happened.
So heavily armed gunmen went on a shooting rampage through the capital of Sinaloa state,
and that's on Mexico's Pacific Coast, battling security forces after authorities attempted
to arrest El Chapo's son.
So there are conflicting reports as far as regarding whether security forces were actually
able to arrest him and then let him go, or whether they just found him and then chose
to abort the mission after it got hot.
Regardless, Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador defended the decision to back
down saying his predecessors' strategy, turned this country into a cemetery and we don't
want that anymore.
Take a look at what went down.
>> Sniper rifle in the middle of the street shooting people.
>> So that is not the authorities.
>> No, no, no, no, that is an assassin.
>> So what happened is there was, well, actually, you know what, do you want to go through it?
>> No, go for it.
>> I just want, I don't want to stop anything.
>> No, no, you're good.
>> Okay, so the official report is, and like you said, there are conflicting reports, but
the official report is that the Mexican military had done an unauthorized raid that ended up
capturing Ovidio Guzman Lopez, the son of El Chapo Guzman and known to be the leader
in that region.
And as soon as that happened, they were outnumbered, outgunned, immediately.
And on top of that, the sicarios came in from neighboring areas, neighboring states, and
they just started causing havoc, killing civilians, shooting at police officers.
There's dead police officers all over the city.
We saw the video, there was a guy with a 50 Cal, like that's an anti material rifle basically
shooting at civilian.
And then because AMLO did not want to escalate the conflict and did not want to escalate
civilian casualties, he decided to let Ovidio Guzman Lopez go.
>> Yeah, so let me give a little bit more color on that.
It's about 30 National Guard and Army troops that were patrolling the area.
I don't know if they stumbled onto him, but they find El Chapo's son and they go in the
house and they have him.
They're about to leave and they get surrounded by El Chapo's men, the Sinaloa cartel, okay?
They're so outnumbered that they literally let him go and walk out.
So, and look, if you're thinking, that's outrageous, etc.
Not only sniper rifles as you saw, there were trunk mounted machine guns.
But I think it was a terrible idea to let him go.
Now it's easy for me to say not being surrounded by the Sinaloa cartel, right?
But because afterwards it appears that they went around town shooting randomly because
they got to feel empowered.
They just overwhelmed the cops and the military.
They're a bigger military force in Mexico than the cops are.
I mean, certainly they were in that instance.
>> Yeah.
>> So they got to think that's it, there are no laws anymore and we rule this place.
>> Yeah.
>> Well there are laws.
It's their laws.
Like you said, they rule and and that was more so reflects to ensure that this never
happens again.
Civilians are just casualties to showcase what their power is.
But one important factor here is that guns are banned in Mexico.
But these guys were running around with light anti tank weapons.
They had rocket launchers.
They had machine guns, 50 caliber machine guns plant on top of jeep.
And the reason why they have this is because there is a gigantic cocaine to gun trade with
their northern border and our southern border.
They sell us cocaine, to the American market.
And then they get all of their guns from us, America.
So it's a beautiful deal for the cartel.
And with the current prohibition of drugs, we are only helping the cartel continue its
reign of terror over Mexico.
>> And speaking of the US, of course,everyone knows that El Chapo has been sentenced to
life in prison here.
But his son also is wanted here in the US on drug trafficking charges.
>> Yeah.
>> Right, so his sons now run the Sinaloa cartel since he's in prison.
>> Yeah, and there are two more powerful than this one.
>> Yes, and that's right.
And so they know that if they're captured by the Mexican authorities, they'll be handed
over to the US authorities.
This guy in particular, cuz he's already wanted in America and then that's it, then they're
screwed.
Once they come to America they never get out, right?
And so, now look guys but it is more complicated than this.
So, the current leader of Mexico is right that his predecessor had the wrong strategy.
His predecessor was like okay, let's just outgun them, let's just move them all down.
And that led to unbelievable violence in Mexico.
On the other hand, it's not, I don't think it's right to just let the guy go when you
have him because you got surrounded.
That's when you call for backup, etc.
Again, easy for me to say, but you gotta have a better balance in this.
But if you really wanna solve the heart of the problem, is right, end the war on drugs,
they won't have money.
If they don't have money, they don't have weapons and they don't have this power.
The war on drugs is insane and it's what's the heart of the problem and the violence
in Mexico.
>> AMLO is also leftist and is focusing on the social problems that cause crime, rather
than addressing crime in a violent manner.
>> That's right.
That's true.
And that's the full context.