The Lighthouse | 2012 June 23

Yahoo Headlines Reporting “El Chapo” Guzman’s son has been Captured.. Apparently not true

By Erik Zimerman On June 23, 2012 · 1 Comment · In Avvisi

Reuters, and the major media outlets, including a Yahoo headline today, are reporting the arrest by Mexican Marines of Mexico catches son of top drug lord “Shorty” Jesus Alfredo Guzman, “El Gordo”. This would be a major victory for Mexico’s embattled President weeks before the election. The operation was hailed as great success of joint US/Mexico cooperation and intelligence sharing. In fact, it seems it may have been a politically timed and hastily launched operation by two embattled administrations before election time. I am increasingly doubting that the man paraded for Mexican media was in fact Guzman’s son. There is little resemblance between him and known photographs. The circumstances of his capture are also unlikely. If in fact, they have the wrong man, this will surely lead to finger pointing (Mexico blaming bad DEA info and vice versa) and a big embarrassment for the two administrations that needed just the opposite. The Obama administration, already under fire for “Fast and the Furious” type operations in Mexico will have to answer for another bungled job in handling the drug war. This is still not conclusive, and hopefully time will tell, (if there is not a successful cover-up) if they did catch him or not. News of the son’s arrest would undoubtedly have set the [...]

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