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Thursday, May 25, 2023

Los Chapitos: El Chapo’s Sons Carrying On Cartel Operations

"Sol Prendido" for Borderland Beat

In this Feb. 22, 2014 file photo, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the head of Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel, is escorted to a helicopter in Mexico City following his capture in the beach resort town of Mazatlan, Mexico.

Few drug lords have attained the notoriety that El Chapo has.

For years, he helmed the Sinaloa Cartel — building a drug trafficking empire with a larger footprint in the United States than anyone else.

El Chapo is now serving a life sentence in the U.S., and the takedown created a power vacuum in Mexico. But once the dust settled, four men rose to the top of the organization: Ivan Guzman Salazar, Alfredo Guzman Salazar, Joaquin Guzman Lopez, and Ovidio Guzman Lopez. All four, known as “Los Chapitos,” or “The Little Chapos,” are sons of the former boss.

Jack Riley was the deputy administrator of the Drug Enforcement Agency who led the charge to bring El Chapo down in 2016.

“For me, it was the Super Bowl,” Riley recalled. “It was everything we work for.”

According to Riley, Los Chapitos are every bit as vicious as their father was at the height of his career — “willing to kill anybody to stay in business.”

They even have a track record of feeding their enemies “dead or alive” to tigers just to send a message, according to an unsealed indictment from the Southern District of New York.

What Los Chapitos are most well known for, however, is overhauling the cartel’s drug operation — shifting it from methamphetamine, heroin and cocaine to fentanyl.

“Five years ago, I had never even heard of fentanyl, and now it’s the No. 1 killer,” San Diego County Supervisor Jim Desmond said.

In 2016, Customs and Border Protection seized 564 pounds of fentanyl. That number has since skyrocketed to 17,200 pounds in the past seven months alone — a roughly 3,000% increase in just over six years.

While multiple cartels are vying for the American market, the latest analysis from the DEA suggests the Sinaloa Cartel has far and away the most control.

“If Sinaloa in its business operation was a legit company, it would be one of the largest corporations and most successful in the world,” Riley said.

Earlier this year, Ovidio Guzman Lopez, one of the four sons, was captured in a shootout that left at least 29 dead.

Still, the other three remain at large. Riley is now out of the game as a DEA administrator, but fears if left unchecked, Los Chapitos will continue to expand the operation and the fentanyl problem will get much worse.

“I’ve always said to our European counterparts, it’s coming your way,” Riley said. “The real key here for Sinaloa is they have unlimited resources, and they make up the rules.”


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39 comments:

  1. Where oh where is Ivan? Somewhere in Culiacan or back in Mocorito hiding out?

    Just because you change phones doesn't mean that we are not listening.
    🇺🇸

    👁️ you soon Jefe

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    1. Ask Shelby San Diego..

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    2. The same way Daddy 🇨🇳 is listening to you guys as well😉

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    3. 7:09PM
      Go to daddy, go live in China if you love them that much.

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    4. Lol watching lol. Yeah right. The number one cause of people getting arrested is still information collected by many close friends and family. Those closest to you are the ones who give information.

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  2. El señor Ivan is well protected by el 09 y el Gavilan y el panu not ro mention Gente Nueva ter1 operators los talibanes y la Vagancia (cholo ivan team)

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    1. Don’t forget the military…

      Did you ever read Sean Penn’s Rolling Stone article for the whole “Chapo interview” debacle?

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    2. The Military? Are we reading the same articles? The Military caught his father, his father's security, caught his brother and killed like 10 dudes of his security team and now they're on his ass and you're over here saying retarded nonsense. LOL.

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    3. Read the article; a military checkpoint stopped Alfredo and Sean when they were driving to visit Chapo…

      When the military commander realized it was Alfredo he apologized and let them go on…

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    4. Sean Penn doesn't know shit. That was not the military, those were "pistoleros" that stopped them. Most capo's security team are dressed like military and especially if you're going to visit a dude like Chapo.

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    5. They said Chapo was well protected by 300 guevones ondeados but when he was caught he only had a few kids in flip flops protecting him.They were all easily kilked.

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    6. @4:10pm. When you say the Military what exactly do you mean? I’m confused. It was the military the ones who captured Chapo and his son.

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    7. @8:55am. Te la mamás te but you are right. Chapo did had many people on his payroll but he wouldn’t travel with many people around him. Same thing with his sons.

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    8. @955 — same military that eventually became Zetas too right?

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    9. @232 — if that’s the case, how did they not know that Alfredo was passing through beforehand?

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  3. Ovidio Guzman is gone get extradited there is no questions ask about that his brothers would used him to calm the waters Nini and panu are next with El nini being killed by security forces and El panu arrested and extradited these is first hand information from close associates Ivan and Alfredito are trying to prolong their days at all means necessary plus government officials are plotting on killing them off not getting them arrested

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  4. I always felt that series of photos of Chapo didn’t look like him… apparently I wasn’t the only one either

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  5. You are all going to laugh but I bet Nini makes a move on Ivan

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    1. Lmao that’s the dumbest prediction (or even idea) I’ve heard on this site…

      I imagine Nini has family in Sinaloa, could never get enough muscle to help him, and has no real power in the narco world outside of Sinaloa, let alone Culiacan…

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    2. 436 fanboys got his pantys in a knot

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    3. Not a fan of any cartel tbh… and you must be projecting; got a thing for men in panties, eh?

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    4. Nini no de sinaloa del sur criado en tj but yea su esposa es hija del animal and the fernandez clan is deep af in culiacan

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  6. These kids got kidnapped by rivals, which mean they are not that smart, only a matter of time they get caught/killed.

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    1. Kidnapped and survived. Big difference. Adjustments were definitely made…take for example Ovidos capture. He was protected. BIG TIME. It took the best of the best from the US to get him. Chapitos won’t gone down with a fight.

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    2. Only reason they got caught,
      Was becusss they had Alfredito in the grupo chat when they were setting up bday plans
      Alfredito Beltran then sent CJNg.
      But even Mencho knew he fucked up

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    3. Animo Sicarios!
      The rooster guy knew that his life was in danger, if even a hair of los patrones (chapitos ) would haven been touched. What you think happened to sicario seen hurting Ivan?
      He was takem to the House of 10000 corpse.
      Zero zero seis

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    4. 8:34 you keep trying to convince yourself of that.
      10:37 WTF did you write? One hair huh? How about some broken ribs and getting dragged out by his butthuggers?

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  7. It will be interesting to see how hard Ivan fights to not go back to altiplano….

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    1. Imo he will either never get caught using money to ensure that or go out like ABL, he appeared to have a hard time in Altiplano and I doubt he has any intention of going back.

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  8. They are too powerful. Like a croissant 🥐

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  9. Powerful like a vajay.

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  10. And CJNG running around thinking their more powerful LOL

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    1. They all have the same end. They fly high for a moment and like the mythology goes they get to close to the sun and burn their wings. And crash down to reality.

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  11. They love attention, just like his father. Just matter of time... Mayo will get CDS, an expert on flying low.

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    1. Mayo is semi retired dummy accept the fact that Chapitos are running the show now

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    2. MF is running the shown now. Mayito Flaco

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  12. Could you write more articles about El mini’s fall from grace with the Chapito’s? I’ve always read that he was El Chapitos right hand man until an article that was posted last week. I’m getting the impression that some major changes happened recently, and am very interested in to finding out what caused his fall grace from chief enforcer to the Chapitos.

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    1. I would do a search here on BLB. There are many prior articles that go into this topic in depth.

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