Narcos

News Items by John Ellis.

1. Heavily armed criminals laid siege to the northern Mexican city of Culiacan on Thursday after the government captured Ovidio Guzman Lopez, a leader of the powerful Sinaloa cartel and the son of notorious drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. Masked men with high-powered weapons faced off with soldiers and took control of major streets as gunmen blocke…