Video shows Mexican soldier begging son of 'El Chapo' to order cartel fighters to stand down
by Kate Linthicum and Steve Fisher, Los Angeles Times
Oct 30, 2019
3 minutes
MEXICO CITY - It is an extraordinary video - a behind-the-scenes look at what happened earlier this month when Mexican security forces briefly captured one of the world's most-wanted cartel leaders.
In the clip, which was released Wednesday by Mexico's defense secretary, the Sinaloa drug cartel chief Ovidio Guzman Lopez is shown surrendering to soldiers who had trapped him in a home in the northern city of Culiacan.
Instead of putting Guzman in handcuffs and immediately taking him into custody, the
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