Cartel lays siege to Mexican city after recapture of the son of 'El Chapo'

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25. "But...Lopez Obrador's admin has delivered repeatedly on one key U.S. priority:

the arrest of high-profile drug kingpins.

Just days after López Obrador met with Biden at the White House in July 2021, Mexican forces captured Rafael Caro Quintero, a cartel member believed to be behind the killing of U.S. DEA agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena in 1985.

Jorge Israel, a human rights professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, said on Twitter that López Obrador was “cleaning house before Biden arrives.”

Former President Vicente Fox, a major critic of López Obrador, called the capture of Ovidio an obvious “gift” for Biden."

This son of El Chapo is one of a group of brothers fighting to keep control after their father was put away. The cartel's reportedly weakened, this capture another bad sign, and may be on the way down.

In many places around the planet, criminal organizations, in and out of government, are endangered by Democratic control of U.S. foreign policy.