It’s like these people have never watched a Mafia movie before, because the surest way to cause an all out war is to mess with the children of a mob or cartel leader.

Not just any cartel leader either, but none other than Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán. That’s the same chap who managed to escape two separate prisons with a series of underground tunnels, so you know he isn’t going to muck about when it comes to matters such as family.

The Daily Beast here with an overview:

In the dark early hours of Monday morning, heavily armed sicarios, or hitmen, abducted 29-year-old Alfredo Guzmán and five other men at a restaurant called La Leche in the Mexican resort town Puerto Vallarta, Mexican authorities said…

In the days since, authorities have concluded the kidnappers were from Mexico’s new “super cartel” known as the CJNG, Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación. The cartel has spread like a flesh-eating bacteria across the Mexican underworld, challenging any gang that looked weak, even and especially, it would seem, El Chapo’s once-mighty Sinaloa Cartel since he was returned to prison in January.

The police have yet to see a formal charge of kidnapping laid, but they know full well this is the type of thing that cartels settle amongst themselves.

Here’s the video showing the actual kidnapping, where the men were rounded up and the women released without harm.

You want to know the kind of firepower that the CJNG possesses? This could get messy:

Since 2015 the CJNG has developed a reputation for taking the fight to law enforcement, launching guerrilla-like assaults that have claimed dozens of officers’ lives. In at least one instance, they managed to shoot down a Mexican Army helicopter, killing everyone aboard…

Will the Sinaloa Cartel retaliate? More than likely, and you can bet there’s a decent Netflix series coming out of this one too.

[source:dailybeast]