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Mexico captures Sinaloa cartel boss who launched power bid after El Chapo arrest
Source: The Guardian
Mexico captures Sinaloa cartel boss who launched power bid after El Chapo arrest
• Officials say Dámaso López was long considered El Chapo’s right-hand man
• El Chapo, AKA Joaquín Guzmán, extradited to US in January to face charges
David Agren in Mexico City
Tuesday 2 May 2017 15.38 BST
Mexican soldiers and police have detained a Sinaloa cartel leader who was once Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán’s right-hand man, but more recently became locked in a power struggle with the imprisoned kingpin’s sons.
Dámaso López was arrested at an apartment block in an upper middle class Mexico City neighbourhood on Tuesday morning, the attorney general’s office said in a statement.
Troops and police officers in masks and full battle gear led López from the building before he was sped in a convoy of white vehicles to a unit of the attorney general’s office.
Nicknamed “El Licenciado” – a title for college graduates – López was a former security official himself, and once worked as head of security in the Puente Grande prison near Guadalajara, where Guzmán was held after his first arrest in 1993.
López is accused of helping Guzmán slip out of the prison in 2001 in the first of two high-profile escapes.
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• Officials say Dámaso López was long considered El Chapo’s right-hand man
• El Chapo, AKA Joaquín Guzmán, extradited to US in January to face charges
David Agren in Mexico City
Tuesday 2 May 2017 15.38 BST
Mexican soldiers and police have detained a Sinaloa cartel leader who was once Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán’s right-hand man, but more recently became locked in a power struggle with the imprisoned kingpin’s sons.
Dámaso López was arrested at an apartment block in an upper middle class Mexico City neighbourhood on Tuesday morning, the attorney general’s office said in a statement.
Troops and police officers in masks and full battle gear led López from the building before he was sped in a convoy of white vehicles to a unit of the attorney general’s office.
Nicknamed “El Licenciado” – a title for college graduates – López was a former security official himself, and once worked as head of security in the Puente Grande prison near Guadalajara, where Guzmán was held after his first arrest in 1993.
López is accused of helping Guzmán slip out of the prison in 2001 in the first of two high-profile escapes.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/02/mexico-captures-sinaloa-cartel-leader-el-chapo