Leaked docs reveal how El Chapo's sons 'bent' Mexican government after one was arrested

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El Chapo' Guzmán "bent" the Mexican government after one of them was arrested. Last Thursday (September 29) a group known as the Guacamaya Hackers launched a cyber-attack on Mexico's Secretariat of National Defence (SEDENA) and released thousands of confidential documents.

Among the most damning revelations were the details around how El Chapo's son Ovidio Guzmán - known as El Ratón - came to be released following his arrest in October 2019. READ MORE: Decapitated heads and tortured bodies found in region ravaged by drug cartel violenceIn a failed operation that became known as Culiacanazo, members of the Mexican National Guard captured Ovidio at his home in Culiacán, Sinaloa - the heartland of his father's infamous Sinaloa Cartel.

The operation came after a warrant for his arrest and extradition was issued by a US judge.What followed has been likened to a full-scale insurgency and dubbed the Battle of Culiacán as hundreds of Sinaloa Cartel gunmen flooded the city in armoured vehicles, wearing bulletproof vests and armed with heavy machine guns and rocket launchers.The traffickers reportedly burned vehicles, fired at security forces, took hostages and raided the housing unit where the military's families lived.Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador deployed 8,000 soldiers and police in response but was eventually forced to sanction Ovidio's release to quell the chaos. "The officials who took this decision did well," he said."The capture of a criminal is not worth more than people's lives."Later, officials justified the release by noting how they did not have a search warrant for Ovidio's house.