Operation Sinaloa

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Operation Sinaloa
Part of Mexican Drug War
Date2008–present
Location
Sinaloa, Mexico
Result Ongoing
Belligerents
Mexico National Guard (Since 2019)Cartel De Sinaloa.png Sinaloa Cartel Beltrán-Leyva Cartel
Los Zetas
Commanders and leaders
Flag of Mexico.svg Andrés Manuel López Obrador
(2018–present)
Flag of Mexico.svg Enrique Peña Nieto
(2012–18)
Flag of Mexico.svg Felipe Calderón
(2008–12)
Flag of Mexico.svg Guillermo Galván Galván
(2008–12)
Flag of Mexico.svg Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda
(2012–18)
Flag of Mexico.svg Luis Cresencio Sandoval
(2018–present)
Flag of Mexico.svg Mariano Francisco Saynez Mendoza
(2008–12)
Flag of Mexico.svg Vidal Francisco Soberón Sanz
(2012–18)
Flag of Mexico.svg José Rafael Ojeda Durán
(2018–present)
Flag of Sinaloa.svg Jesús Aguilar Padilla
(2008–2012)
Flag of Sinaloa.svg Mario López Valdez
(2011–2016)
Flag of Sinaloa.svg Quirino Ordaz Coppel
(2017–present)
Cartel De Sinaloa.png Joaquín Guzmán Loera  (POW)
Cartel De Sinaloa.png Ismael Zambada García
Cartel De Sinaloa.png Ignacio Coronel Villarreal  
Héctor Beltrán Leyva  (POW)
Edgar Valdez Villarreal  (POW)
Sergio Villarreal Barragán  (POW)

Operation Sinaloa or Operation Culiacan - Navolato (Spanish: Operacion Sinaloa/Operacion Conjunto Sinaloa) is an ongoing anti-drug trafficking operation in the Mexican state of Sinaloa by the Federal Police and the Mexican Armed Forces. Its main objective is to cripple all cartel organizations such as the Sinaloa Cartel, Beltrán-Leyva Cartel and Los Zetas that operate in that state. The Military was deployed in response to the murder of Mexico's Federal Police commissioner Édgar Eusebio Millán Gómez.

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Background

President Felipe Calderón's government ordered massive raids on drug cartels upon assuming office in December 2006 in response to an increasingly deadly spate of violence in his home state of Michoacán. The decision to intensify drug enforcement operations has led to an ongoing conflict between the federal government and the Mexican drug cartels. Sinaloa is home to the Sinaloa cartel and Beltrán-Leyva Cartel who are at war with each other since their break in 2008 due to the arrest of Alfredo Beltrán Leyva (a.k.a. El Mochomo, "The Desert Ant") on January 20, 2008. Beltrán Leyva's arrest [1] [2] was a huge blow to the Sinaloa Cartel, as he allegedly oversaw large-scale drug-smuggling operations and was a key money launderer for the cartel.

In apparent revenge for the arrest of his brother Alfredo, Arturo Beltrán Leyva ordered the assassination of the commissioner of the Federal Police, Édgar Eusebio Millán Gómez and other top federal officials in the Mexican capital. [3] [4] One group of these hit men was captured in a Mexico City house with dozens of assault rifles, pistols, grenade launchers, 30 hand grenades, and bullet-proof jackets bearing the legend FEDA — the Spanish acronym for 'Special Forces of Arturo'. Apparently, the Beltrán Leyva brothers blamed their boss Joaquin "Chapo" Guzmán for their brother's arrest, [5] and ordered the assassination of Guzmán's son, [6] 22-year-old Édgar Guzmán López, which was carried out in a shopping center parking lot by at least 15 gunmen using assault rifles and grenade launchers. [7]

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