Gustavo Castillo
Newspaper La Jornada
Friday, January 6, 2023, p. 4
The Jesús María syndicate, where the Army apprehended Ovidio Guzmán, is an emblematic site in the municipality of Culiacán: its geographical condition is the door to the mountainous area and the road to Badiraguato, cradle of drug trafficking
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The former tranquility of this site has been constantly disturbed over the past five years by confrontations between groups of the Sinaloa cartel, particularly Ismael’s cells. the may Zambada García, against the organization of the little boysled by Alfredo, Ovidio, Iván Archivaldo and Édgar Guzmán.
Jesús María is located in the northern part of the municipality of Culiacán. It is the entrance to the mountain area and leads to the place where marijuana, poppies and synthetic drugs are produced in the so-called Golden Triangle; Durango, Sinaloa and Chihuahua border there.
This community is home to around 5,000 people and is made up of nine police stations: Paredones, Las Guásimas, Agua Amarilla, El Limoncito, Las Higueras, La Reforma, La Anona, Los Limones and Los Girasoles.
Paredones has been the scene of an internal dispute over the leadership of the organization created by Joaquín El Chapo Guzman and Hector Javier the güero Palm Salazar.
In November 2019, a convoy of apocryphal trucks from the State Police broke into a town dominated by Jesús Sánchez, the russianone of the main operators of the may Zambada.
the little boys They tried to invade the area The Russianswhich caused a confrontation between both groups and the dispute reached the town of Paredones.
