In which municipality of Sinaloa does the leader of the Chapitos have his ranch?

The Sinaloa Cartel was led in its beginnings by Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, Juan José Esparragoza Moreno, “El Azul” and Héctor Luis “El Güero” Palma Salazaraccording to an unsealed criminal indictment in New York.

More than thirty years after its creation, the leadership of the criminal organization has undergone hundreds of transformations. At least three of the old-school kingpins sit dormant today, being “El Mayo” Zambada the only great mafioso that continues in force.

According to a series of judicial documents that are part of the accusation that the Department of Justice recently presented against “Los Chapitos”, and that were consulted by the investigative journalist Anabel Hernández, Chapo’s sons are now the most powerful faction within the Sinaloa Cartel, managing to surpass the power of Mayo, who had held that position in recent decades.

The time of the Chapitos began to take shape as a result of a meeting. While “El Chapo” was still incarcerated in the Altiplano Prison, before he starred in his most spectacular escape, there was a meeting that brought together the leaders of the criminal organization. “The most important members of the cartel met at the ranch of Iván Archivaldo Guzmán to discuss the future of the cartel.”pointed out the US file cited by the journalist.

“During the meeting, the Chapitos and the leaders of the main factions of the cartel discussed the future of the organization and control over the various regions of Mexico was assigned to those present.”, the document expanded.

However, what caught the attention of the file was that it revealed the Sinaloan municipality where the ranch that is owned by Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar, the eldest of “Los Chapitos”, also known as “Luis” or “Tocayo”.

Iván, according to the US report consulted by Hernández, is the head of the criminal faction and the in charge of leading the entire security apparatus of the criminal faction.

He is also the one who is supposedly in charge of giving the orders to the groups of hit men. There is even talk that he would have ordered or directly perpetrated acts of violence against rival groups or factions, as well as against law enforcement officers, and that all detained rivals or people who refuse to work for him are taken to his ranch. they.

“Generally they are interrogated under torture, killed with a shot or sometimes even alive or dead they occupy them to feed the tigers that Iván and Alfredo have as pets on their ranches,” Hernández described in his last column for the portal. Deutsche Welle.

Navolato, whose translation in the Cahita language means “Place of Nopales” or “Place of Tunas”, is the youngest municipality in the state of Sinaloa, whose homonymous city is located approximately 30 kilometers from Culiacán, the capital of Sinaloa.

It is located on the central coast of Sinaloa and was created on August 27, 1982. The main activities in which its people are dedicated are agriculture, livestock and fishing.

In 2020, the population in Navolato was 149 thousand 122 inhabitants, of which 50.6% were men and 49.4% women. It has seven unions and a total area of ​​2,285 square kilometers.

In 2020 “Los Chapitos” allegedly disputed Navolato with the heirs of Amado Carrillo Fuentes “El Señor de los Cielos”, founder of the Juárez Cartel, who died in 1997.

Julio César Carrillo Leyva, alias “El Cesarín”, was executed in his house of the entity. He was one of the Carrillo Leyva brothers. His death was the sign of a dispute between them and “Los Chapitos”.