A showy floral arrangement surrounded by two huge letters ‘E and G’, made with red roses, was placed this Wednesday, May 8, in the parking lot of a shopping plaza to remember 16 years since the murder of Edgar Guzman Lopezson of Joaquín, ‘El Chapo’ Guzman.
It is not the first time they have placed him a striking flower arrangement, since this type of present also appears every May 31, the date on which he had his birthday; on November 2, with the celebration of the Day of the Dead; on December 25, for Christmas and until January 1, for the New Year celebration.
The floral arrangement placed today is because It has been 16 years since he was shot to death, on the night of May 8, 2008, at a time when the call was taking place War against Drug Trafficking, launched by then-president Felipe Calderon Hinojosa.
It was commented at that time that Joaquín Chapo Guzman and the Beltrán Leyva brothers had differences and there were multiple confrontations that caused massacres in Culiacán, Sinaloa. The most significant event was the murder of Edgar Guzman López, who was 22 years old at the time.
Edgar Guzmán was meeting with other colleagues, César Ariel Loera and Arturo Meza Cazares, in the parking lot of the commercial plaza where the City Club, Tienda Coppel and Soriana are located, north of the Tres Rios Urban Development, in Culiacán.
Supposedly, hitmen of Chapo Guzman himself were seeking to kill a group of the Leyva Brothers, But since it was late at night, they arrived at the shopping plaza and mistook Chapo’s son for rivals, where they fired more than 500 shots.
He died there the young Edgar Guzman and since then a cenotaph was built, where large floral arrangements are placed on significant dates to remember him.
