"Free El Chapo!" rallies held across Sinaloa

Family and friends of the drug lord are most likely responsible for them

SINALOA.- Although the capture of the world's most wanted drug lord, Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, was overwhelmingly met with praise around the world, he apparently has fans in his home state of Sinaloa, or at least, there are people supposedly marching in the streets for his freedom.

While thousands protest in Ukraine, Venezuela and Thailand against corruption, yesterday in Culiacan and Guamuchil, Sinaloa, around a thousand people marched demanding freedom for "El Chapo".

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"Free El Chapo!" and "We won't allow his extradition" are just some of the signs at rallies yesterday that shocked and perturbed Mexicans on social media, with hundreds of people walking down streets and avenues venerating the head of one of the most dangerous criminal organizations in the world.

Even more disturbing, a sign that some women carried that read "Chapo, I want to have your baby!" The crowds were mostly young and are now currently being investigated by the state government, which said that the family and friends of "El Chapo" were most likely behind the events.

Sinaloa governor Mario López Váldez commented during an interview with reporter Carlos Loret de Mola that they saw several "protesters" being handed out money, tamales, water and even beer.

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Photo: Animal Político
Photo: Animal Político

"People told us they didn't even know what they were there for, other said they were paid 500 pesos (37 dollars), while other thought there would be music, some sort of party [...] We detained several people, some vehicles that were unregistered, and others that were privately own by transit companies, so we're looking to see who hired them and starting an investigation into it."

The capture of "El Chapo" last Saturday, February 22nd, was met also with skepticism and doubts in social media, not surprising in a country with a history of rampant government corruption. Some have even accused the government of arresting an innocent doppelganger, others bought into a fake news story from an American website, and other conspiracy theories.

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