To the United States Ambassador to Mexico, Ken Salazarthe children of drug trafficker Joaquín El Chapo Guzman, known as the little boysThey no longer have anywhere to hide.after this Friday the US Department of Justice announced that they go for them for trafficking fentanyl and other drugs.
Through a statement, President Joe Biden’s government official said that Iván Archivaldo, Jesús Alfredo, Ovidio and Joaquín Jr.. they will face justice, since the fight against drug organizations is a priority on both borders. Proof of this is the formal accusation against 28 leaders of the Sinaloa cartelamong them the descendants of Guzmán Loera, who is imprisoned in ADX Florence, in Colorado.
“The indictment by the United States Department of Justice against 28 defendants linked to the Sinaloa Cartel, particularly the group known as ‘Los Chapitos’, demonstrates that criminals have nowhere to hide and that they will face justice”
“The fact that criminals do not recognize borders reaffirms the importance of working together and in a coordinated manner with our partners around the world, and particularly in North America with Mexico and Canada,” the statement read.
According to Salazar, the accusation stemmed from an investigation by the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) during which “millions of lethal doses” of fentanyl and large amounts of chemical precursors were seized. The investigation, the diplomat added, involved 10 countries and 32 DEA offices “inside and outside the United States.”
In addition, the DEA raised this April 14 to 10 million dollars reward for information leading to the arrest or conviction of The Chapitos.
As a whole the little boys they are wanted for their operations in the trafficking of cocaine, marijuana and, lately, fentanyl. They control all the movement of drugs in the Sinaloa area, to the United States, western Sonora and all the states of Nayarit, Chihuahua and Baja California Sur, according to the Attorney General’s Office (FGR).
According to US authorities: “they are high-ranking members of the Sinaloa cartel and each is linked to a federal indictment for their involvement in illicit drug trafficking.”
Its operations involve the acquisition of weapons, bribery of authorities, threats, kidnappings, among other crimes, such as money laundering. In addition to the sophistication of their traditional businesses, they have made inroads into the creation of fentanyl laboratories, one of the deadliest drugs in recent times in the United States.
It is worth mentioning that this synthetic opioid, which is up to 50 times stronger than heroin, killed more than 100,000 consumers in the US during 2022, according to the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA).
This position is given after the meeting between senior Mexican and US Security officials in Washington DC that resulted in the strengthening of the fight against fentanyl and firearms trafficking between the two countries.
the Mexican delegation was made up of the Secretary of Foreign Relations, Marcelo Ebrard; the Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection, Rosa Icela Rodríguez Velázquez; the Attorney General of the Republic, Alejandro Gertz Manero; The Secretary of National Defense, General Luis Cresencio Sandoval; the Secretary of the Navy, Admiral Jose Raphael Ojeda; The Secretary of Health, Dr. Jorge Alcocer Alvarezamong others.
For its part, the United States delegation included the National Security adviser, Dr Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall; the attorney general merrick garland; the director of the White House National Drug Control Policy, Dr Rahul Gupta; the ambassador of the United States in Mexico, Ken Salazar; the Under Secretary of State for the Bureau of Narcotics and International Law Enforcement Affairs (INL), Todd Robinsonamong others.
