One of the most well-known drug rulers in the world is, as you probably know, Joaqun Guzmán, also known as El Chapo. The original Sinaloa Cartel president from Mexico is regarded as responsible for the murder of more than 34 000 people. He is said to have founded an empire focused on drug trafficking. He is currently serving out a life sentence in ADX Florence, a supermax incarceration in Colorado.
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However, his family, especially four of his brothers, “have unified command over and assumed command of the Sinaloa Cartel through their self-described Los Chapitos party.” The gang continues to pose a significant risk to our nation as one of the nation’s top drug distributors.  ,
Donald Trump and his administration are then trying to change that. Joaquin Guzman Lopez and Ovidio Guzman Lopez, two of the children, are now being taken into custody in the United States. The Trump presidency announced on Monday that it was launching an investigation into the detention of Iván Guzmán Salazar and Alfredo Guzmán Salazar in addition to a number of restrictions and benefits.  ,
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent specifically stated that the US would remain sanctioning the two gentlemen and Los Chapitos. Additionally, the State Department is rewarding their detention. Los Chapitos is “at the vanguard of fentanyl smuggling into the United States,” according to Bessent, and Treasury is using every means at its disposal to halt the fentanyl problems and save lives.  ,
In a media release from the Treasury Department, it says:
The Sinaloa Cartel’s false pills, which were manufactured in Los Chapitos, were brought into the United States through fentanyl-controlled labs. In Sonora, Mexico, past U.S. Marine Nicholas Quets was killed on October 18, 2024, in addition to militants connected to the Sinaloa Cartel. Also, OFAC is hiring Jesus Alfredo Guzman Salazar and Ivan Guzman Salazar, children of imprisoned Sinaloa Cartel head Joaquin” El Chapo” Guzman Loera, as criminal leaders of Los Chapitos.  ,
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This knowledge was repeated in Tammy Bruce’s statement, according to State Department spokesperson.
Iván and Alfredo have been given targets under the Narcotics Rewards Program, and they are eligible for reward offers of up to$ 10 million each for information that leads to their arrests and/or convictions. Additionally, the United States has established a local community of Los Chapitos affiliates and companies with locations in Mazatlan, Mexico. This system carries out money laundering, bribery, kidnapping, and drug trafficking. The Sinaloa Cartel was recently designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO ) and a Specially Designated Global Terrorist ( SDGT).
According to the Treasury Department, the unit’s ability to control manufacturing via its secret facilities in Sinaloa and obtain precursor chemicals contributes largely to the group’s dominance over morphine trafficking.  ,
Cartel Violence Causes a Stranger’s” 21st-Century Noah’s Ark,” according to  .
In the Mexican state of Sinaloa, a violent turf war between Los Chapitos and another Sinaloa cartel party, La Mayiza,  , broke out last September, causing the incidents of hundreds of people and many others to go missing. According to what I wrote last quarter, the violence escalated to the point where a well-known animal shelter in the area had to relocate 700 wild animals, some of whom were owned by El Chapo himself, to a new area hours apart because even the owners were dying and the personnel don’t run the place correctly.  ,
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Nicholas Quets, a 31-year-old Marine veteran who worked on water restoration projects for Pima County, Arizona, was killed by these men as well. Along the Caborca-Altar Highway, he was assassinated across the U.S.-Mexico borders. More than two hundred strong, followed Nicholas and tragically shot him in the rear, through the brain, during a failed burglary, only after verifying his reputation as an American, said Quets ‘ father, Doug.
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