Culiacan Police Fail to Stop Second Demonstration Supporting Captured Druglord Al Jazeera
go to original March 3, 2014

Al Jazeera's David Mercer reports from Culiacan near Mexico's West coast. (Al Jazeera English)

Associated Press Update: The number of people reported arrested during a demonstration in favor of captured drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman rose to 211 Monday, as outrage grew over what some fear is the glorification of a man considered the hemisphere's most powerful trafficker.

Police in northern Mexico have detained about 100 people in a failed attempt to stop a second demonstration in less than a week to voice support for the world's most wanted drug lord, who was captured last week.

About 20 police patrol vehicles were deployed in Culiacan, the capital of northern Sinaloa state on Sunday, to stop the march in support of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, but many of the supporters refused orders to disperse.

Culiacan judge Gabriel Pena Gonzalez told the Associated Press news agency that more than 100 people had been brought in on disturbing-the-peace and other charges by late Sunday.

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