SINALOA, Mexico.- the died Edgar Guzmán, firstborn of the drug traffickerand Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, Is one of the most remembered violent events in Culiacán, Sinaloa, not only for the violent attack, but for the gesture his father had where he showed the deep sadness caused by the “adjustment of accounts.”
was the May 8, 2008 that violence, power, and revenge seized “El Chapo”, after his son was brutally murdered on the outskirts of a mall in the city where he was born and lived to the end of his days.
The young man was accompanied by his cousin César Ariel Loera i Arturo Meza Cázares, son of Blanca Margarida Cázares, known as “The Empress“When they were attacked by a group of gunmen who fired cannonballs at the youths.
Local media reported that in the brutal attack 500 shots were fired. Edgar’s bloodied body was thrown to the ground in one of the vehicles.
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Edgar’s wife, Frida Muñoz, Assures that the death of his beloved was ordered by the Beltrán Leyva (narcos) in an account adjustment.
The war between the posters of Sinaloa and the Beltrán Leyva had started only months before, after the capture of Alfredo Beltrán Leyva, Alias el “Mochomo”, Who then operated alongside “El Chapo” and Ismael Zambada.
This arrest would have triggered the war inside the Sinaloa cartel, claiming its first victim: Edgar Guzmán López.
the weekly “River Twelve” in a post he claimed that one of the assassins claimed the crime had been a mistake. “We knew it would be paid because, even though they are mistakes that are sometimes not one’s fault, they are also paid for, and in this case, only death covers an error of these.”
50 thousand roses
Edgar was the one first son of “El Chapo”, Product of marriage with Griselda López Pérez. So far he has not been linked or confirmed about his links to his father’s business.
The young man was the father of a two-year-old girl, who heard when he was in his mother’s arms that his father had died in a cruel attack.
The death of his eldest son not only triggered pain and anger, but also the war that Culiacán is living today, a product of the organized crime.
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The stories tell that the sadness of the Mexican capo for the loss of his son was so great that he ordered to buy all the city roses for his burial.
They say that this gesture caused thousands of mothers to run out of flowers for andMother’s Day which was held on these dates.
This unusual fact made that Lupillo Rivera interpret a run called “50 thousand roses.”
“50 thousand red roses were sold in Culiacán arriving on May 10 ready to celebrate, but a few days before we left Edgar Guzmán (…) The pile of roses to no mother sent, all were for a man they always respected, ”says the runner,” the runner says.
“A rest home”
The love for his son was so great that “El Chapo” spared no expense to build what appears to be “a rest home” as tomb for his son Edgar.
The tomb is surrounded by angels at each of its corners and a dome crowned with a cross. the crypt it remains closed and out of reach of any stranger. The round perimeter has barbed wire and barbed wire to make access difficult.
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According to local media, the crypt has air conditioning, bathrooms, bedrooms and tea 24 hour surveillance of the day.