*The Government of López Obrador releases the video of the arrest of Ovidio Guzmán at his home during the operation of October 17.* The Government of Mexico has revealed on Wednesday the details of the failed operation that sought the capture of Ovidio Guzmán López , one of the leaders of the Sinaloa cartel and son of Joaquín El ChapoGuzman In an exercise of transparency unprecedented in the times of the war against drug trafficking, the Secretary of Defense, General Crescencio Sandoval, recounted the minute by minute that led the Mexican State to fit a painful defeat caused by one of the criminal gangs most powerful in the country. The operation was described as a "tactical stumble" and a "hasty action" by Alfonso Durazo, the Secretary of Security of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. One of the revelations has been the video of the moment of the capture of Guzmán -which was later released- in which he is seen talking on the phone asking that the attacks against the armed forces cease: "Stop everything, I do not want more riot" . In the long report, details about the seven hours of hell came to light. Nine soldiers and two officers were kidnapped by drug traffickers in different parts of the city to be used as currency. The hitmen entered four departments inhabited by relatives of the military in Sinaloa. 20 civilians were affected and received psychological care. The cartel tried to bribe one of the commanders responsible for the operation with three million dollars. “It would have been easy an extermination match. We would have won, but at what cost? ”Durazo said in the peculiar self-criticism of one of the most questioned officials after the military failure in Sinaloa . General Sandoval, supported by maps and videos taken by soldiers in the midst of the fray, detailed the reconstruction of the events of that Thursday, October 17. The wheels of Justice in Washington had begun to move from time back, since April 2018, when the District of Columbia issued the order to capture one of the heirs of El Chapo by trafficto the United States of methamphetamines and fentanyl, a drug that has triggered the opioid crisis in the United States. The Mexican Army received on October 8, 2019 a request for collaboration from the Mexican authorities to capture the high-risk offender. The operation of October 17 began to take shape at 1:00 p.m. in Mexico City. Elements of the National Guard, a body created by the Administration of López Obrador, went before the Prosecutor's Office to present a report on the search warrant of a domicile that Ovidio Guzmán's house would register in Culiacán. At that same time the operation works in the city and the surveillance of the residence began. The operation was planned by the Drug Trafficking Analysis and Information Group (GAIN), who has been responsible for the arrest of 663 members of organized crime since its creation in the mid-1990s. 46 criminals have been captured by this group since December 2018, the beginning of the López Obrador Administration. At 3:00 p.m. , one hour less in the capital of Culiacán, Ovid Guzmán arrived at his house located on José Muro Pico Street, in the Tres Ríos subdivision, one of the most exclusive areas of the city. There, this heir of El Chapo was accompanied only by his family. The residence, with high white walls, was surrounded 30 minutes later by soldiers from the 9-A military field of Culiacán specialized in assault, reinforced by elements of the federal police. A few minutes later, at 14.50 (15.50 in Mexico), the armed forces begin to report attacks on firearms. The cartel had begun to deploy its force throughout the state to stop the capture of Ovid. His older brothers, Iván Archivaldo and Jesús Alfredo, were the operators of the criminal's tactical defense. The soldiers, distributed in a tactical group supported by four teams that were going to reinforce the security circle, began to face the powerful fire of the cartel. "External security was not achieved," Sandoval said this morning. The siege of the operation was done on several fronts for more than five hours. From 14.50 until 20.00. On many occasions, the number of armed men exceeded the authorities. The three teams in charge of the perimeter reinforcement of the operation and of supporting the rearguard of the National Guard elements encountered numerous hit men. Team A, with 24 soldiers, faced 30 hitmen in 6 vehicles. Teams C and D, with 55 soldiers, met minutes after three in the afternoon at the intersection of Oriente University streets and Sanchez Alonso Boulevard with 40 armed men in 8 vehicles, two of them armored. These shootings left an element of the National Guard dead, 14 soldiers wounded, three local police officers injured and another 5 assassins killed. The determining moment would arrive at 15.15 hours of Culiacán (16.15 in Mexico). Ovid Guzmán, the man who is wanted to be extradited to the United States, goes out to the parking lot of his house. The door opens and a lady comes out to ask the soldiers not to shoot, that there are children inside. "Don't worry, ma'am, we're not criminals," replies a military. In the instant, two more men leave the house. They are kneeling and frisked by soldiers in search of weapons. - "Tell your people to stop everything," says a man with his face covered to Guzmán López. A member of the tactical group gives the drug dealer a motive. It's 15.17 in the afternoon in Culiacán. - “Stop everything, listen. Stop everything. I already gave myself. Stop everything, please. Already calm, no way ... I no longer want to have rushes, ”says Ovid on the phone. General Sandoval says that on the other side of the line was Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar, who refused to silence the weapons. The images of that brief negotiation were leaked to the media on October 17. That moment would become the turning point of an infernal afternoon. Despite Ovid's call to his brother, the aggressions did not diminish. Quite the opposite. The pressure on the elements increased. "It will not cease," was the response of Iván Archivaldo according to the Secretary of Defense. Minutes later, the first wounded of the military side would begin to register in the streets. Sandoval showed the video of a troop soldier lying on a truck, who lost his left leg due to the impact of a 0.50 caliber bullet fired by a high-power Barrett machine gun. The defense officer informs President López Obrador of the tense operation in Culiacán. It's 15.45 in Sinaloa. At 15:47 (from Culiacán) the soldiers begin to be surrounded by gunmen of the cartel in "hostile attitude". Three minutes later, it is reported that military bases of operations in the towns of Costa Rica and El Fuerte, just outside Culiacán, are being surrounded by civilians armed with the cartel. It was several hours of hellish battle until the authorities, in central Mexico, decided to fight in retreat. It was 18.49 in the afternoon. Still, bewilderment and chaos would continue to reign the streets of Culiacán and several regions of Sinaloa for many hours later. The result of four hours of shooting was 8 dead (a civilian, a National Guard agent, a prisoner escaped from the Aguaruto prison and five hit men) and 19 injured. https://elpais.com/internacional/2019/10/30/actualidad/1572450116_384039.html