AMLO: Decision in Culiacán was to protect citizens

The members of the government security cabinet of Andrés Manuel López Obrador met to follow up on the shooting in Culiacán and say they decided to protect people's lives. The president said in a press conference on Friday that he supported the decision because "it is not about massacres". The president added that the previous strategy "turned the country into a cemetery." Ovidio Guzmán, one of the sons of Mexican drug trafficker Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, had been arrested after a federal operation in Culiacán, which sparked a confrontation between the military and members of the Sinaloa cartel that reportedly sought to rescue him.