Who is Iván Archivaldo Guzmán, the leader of Los Chapitos who is in the top 3 of the most wanted by the DEA (and his relationship with Peru)

Ivan Archivaldo Guzman Salazarleader of the Los Chapitos faction in the powerful Sinaloa cartel, was included in the list of the 10 most wanted fugitives by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). The eldest son of ‘El Chapo’ Guzman He is now the number 3 priority target of the United States and to accumulate evidence against him, the anti-drug agency resorted to wiretapping, offering million-dollar rewards and testimonies from relatives who betrayed the Mexican drug lord. The investigation even led to Peru, the country of origin of the cocaine trafficked by Los Chapitos. This is the story.

On Saturday, the DEA announced a reward of 10 million dollars for the capture of Iván Archivaldo Guzmán, which is added to the list that his brother was already on Jesus Alfredo Guzman, aka Alfredillowho is ranked ninth among the world’s most wanted fugitives by the drug enforcement agency.

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“Wanted for the following alleged federal violations: conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances; Attempt/Conspiracy-Import/Export of controlled substances with the intent to distribute”, points to the description of the DEA about Ivan Archivaldo Guzman.

In this way, the United States increases the pressure on the little boyssince the update of the list of the most wanted by the DEA occurs a week after the United States Department of Justice announce more federal charges for different crimes against 28 members of the Sinaloa cartelincluding the children of El Chapo Guzman.

In that announcement, the United States described the Sinaloa cartel already his faction the little boys as the biggest traffickers in the world of fentanylthe powerful opioid that is causing a public health epidemic in the North American country.

The DEA describes to Ivan Archivaldo as a Hispanic, 5.8 feet (1.76 meters) tall, weighing 165 pounds (74 kilos), with black hair and brown eyes. About his date of birth, only the year is indicated, 1983.

The DEA record of Iván Archivaldo Guzmán. (DEA).

According to Univision, The United States government alleges that the sons of ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán operate in an even more bloodthirsty manner than their father.

“They inherited a global drug trafficking empire and made it more ruthless, more violent, more deadly, and they use it to distribute a new threat: the fentanyl”, said Anne Milgram, administrator of the DEAannouncing the new charges at a conference last week.

“They often torture and kill their victims. They have fed some of their victims, alive and dead, to tigers that belong to Los Chapitos”US Attorney General Merrick B. Garland declared at the same conference.

“In another example, we allege that four defendants were responsible for capturing, torturing, and killing Mexican law enforcement officers. One of the officers was tortured for two hours before Ivan Archivaldo Guzman Salazar I will shoot him”, Garland added.

Univision also realizes that other victims have been injected with fentanyl to death by overdoseaccording to the accusation.

The Mexican newspaper El Universal recalled that the first time that Ivan Archivaldo appeared on the radar of the DEA It was in 2005, when a protected witness pointed out that he was one of the main leaders of the Sinaloa cartel.

At the age of 22, in 2005 he was arrested in an operation in Jalisco, but was released three years later after a judge dismissed all the charges against him.

Ivan Archivaldo Guzman is one of four children who ‘El Chapo‘ he had with Alejandrina Salazar.

According to the Mexican portal El Financiero, he grew up in Guadalajara in a safe environment that allowed him and his three brothers greater access to education compared to his fatheras well as to venture into the business field.

Alejandro Hope, a Mexican security analyst, told BBC Mundo that Iván Archivaldo Guzmán does not have the cunning of his father; however, she grew up “in the midst of lessons in brutality that made them form within that world.”

According to an investigation by the Spanish newspaper El País, the hunt against Los Chapitos dates back to 2008 and thanks were given to relatives who betrayed them, former partners and old informers.

The more than 130 pages of court documents detail how created a drug trafficking corridor from Peru to the United States and they forged alliances in Asia that were paid with cryptocurrencies and without leaving a trace.

El País explains that agents of the DEA infiltrated for a year and a half in the core of the little boys.

One of the informers is Jesus Vincent Zambada, alias vincentillo, the eldest son of ‘El Mayo’ Zambada, historical leader of the Sinaloa Cartel. He was arrested in Mexico City in March 2009 and extradited to the United States. Behind bars, US authorities offered her a deal to rat on his father and his former associates in exchange for a reduced sentence, something that vincentillo I agree.

Jesús Zambada reported that “El Chapo” bought Colombian cocaine for $3,000 per kilogram and sold it in New York for $35,000. (Photo: AFP).

vincentillo told how the murders were ordered in the Sinaloa Cartelhow the profits were distributed, how El Chapo Guzmán escaped from prison and how he met with top-level Mexican politicians.

Before vincentillo, the twins Pedro and Margarito Flores also denounced the cartel in the United States. Both used their experience working at a McDonald’s to expand the Mafia’s presence in sinaloa in the North American country, reports El País. They began collaborating with justice in October 2008.

The Flores brothers recorded around 70 telephone conversations with members of the Sinaloa Cartellike El Chapo Guzmán, and with his son Alfredo Guzman, ‘Alfredillo’to coordinate the delivery of a shipment of 20 kilos of cocaine to Chicago, negotiating directly with the heir and lieutenant of the capo the logistics for the shipment and payment of the merchandise to arrive.

The Flores’ cooperation resulted in almost twenty drug seizures, dozens of arrests in Mexico and the United Statesand the extradition of several drug lords, including vincentillo zambada.

In 2014, Jesús Raúl Beltrán, brother-in-law of ‘Alfredillo’ Guzmánwas captured at his home in Culiacán, the capital of Sinaloa.

In 2017, his lawyers denounced that his client was a victim of torture at the hands of the Mexico Navy and with the consent of US agents. At the time of his capture, they isolated him from his wife and his daughter, handcuffed him, began to beat him, and suffocated him with a plastic bag in his kitchen, according to the testimony of beltran.

Beltrán assured that the sailors threatened to gang-rape his wife and kill his family if he did not tell them where Iván Archivaldo and Alfredo Guzmán livedand take them there. The detainee maintained that he did not know where the children of “El Chapo” were.

Then he told them that they were friends from elementary school and that since then he hadn’t heard from them. Then He reported that their meetings were in restaurants and nightclubs, and that is why he did not know where they lived.

El País reports that the brother-in-law of ‘Alfredillo‘ denounced that in addition to being suffocated, he was electrocuted, tortured with heavy metal music and ice water, and forced to record a false confession in front of DEA agents.

“He recited an alleged confession that he, Iván Archivaldo Guzmán and Alfredo Guzmán flew from Culiacán to Chiapas to buy cocaine. He admitted that each man had an assigned job: the brother-in-law loaded the cocaine onto the plane, Alfredo stacked it inside the aircraft, and Iván was the pilot.their lawyers said.

In September 2019, Beltrán was sentenced to 28 years in prison for trafficking marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamine, and heroin, after refusing to cooperate with authorities and maintaining that he was tortured while in custody.

Today, the United States considers that Los Chapitos “assumed the role of leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel”. Brothers and sons are accused of ‘El Chapo’ Guzman to coordinate the operations of the criminal group, amass the profits and launder them. Also of trafficking drugs and precursors to manufacture fentanyl through planes, submarines, boats, shipping containers, tractors, buses, cars, trains and tunnels to cross the border. The traffic involves 10 countries in the Americas: the United States, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Peru.Indian The Country.

Source: Elcomercio