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The Sinaloa criminal organization is divided into three groups, here they are
2023-10-30 12:32:29 / BOTA
The Sinaloa Cartel, one of the most powerful criminal organizations operating in more than 40 countries, has split. It has been divided into three groups according to a report by the US Congressional Research Service. According to the 2020 US Congressional document, one of the three factions into which the cartel split is led by Aureliano Guzman, otherwise known as El Guano, the brother of El Chapo Guzman. Another faction is led by Los Chapitos, the sons of El Chapo. And the third is led by Ismael Zambada Garcia otherwise known as El Mayo Zambada.
Regarding the latter two and according to some specialists and media experts on the subject, El Mayo and Los Chapitos had severed ties due to various circumstances.
When El Chapo Guzmán was arrested for the third time, control of the Sinaloa cartel was completely in the hands of El Mayo Zambada, his most important partner.
However, over the years, El Chapo's sons Iván Archivaldo, Jesús Alfredo, Ovidio and Joaquín became key players in the criminal organization.
And now they share leadership with El Mayo Zambada, leading their faction of the cartel, although according to some media their relationship has been broken for years. According to Sinaloa news weekly Rio Doce, the friction between El Mayo Zambada and Los Chapitos began during El Chapo Guzman's trial in New York in 2018. When El Mayo Zambada's brother and son, Jesus and Vicente Zambada testified for the Prosecutor's Office of the USA.
After their statements against El Chapo they achieved a benefit in their sentences. Today, both are free. By 2019, the Sinaloa news weekly was already reporting a rift between El Mayo and Los Chapitos. The dispute, according to Rio Doce, would have arisen after the so-called Culiacanazo that led to the capture and subsequent capture of Ovidio Guzmán. That Thursday, when Ovidio was in the hands of the army, Los Chapitos asked Mayo Zambada for help.
However, the answer was negative and his men, according to the Sinaloa weekly newspaper, did not help rescue Ovidio Guzman.
El Mayo had not agreed to Ovidio's release, but also refused to participate in the operation that pressured the government to release him, Rio Doce reported. Before Culiacanozo, El Mayo Zambada was already looking to break away from Los Chapitos due to their impulsiveness, inexperience and tactical mistakes that endangered not only El Mayo Zambada, but the organization in general, Rio Doce reported.
The crux of the feud began in November 2019 when an armed criminal 'cell' of eight cloned Sinaloa police trucks attacked the Agua Caliente district north of Culiacan.
The area was then controlled by Juan José Ponce Félix aka El Ruso, the chief operative of El Mayo Zambada. At the head of the armed criminal cell was the security chief of Los Chapitos, Nestor Isidro Pérez known as El Nini, who, according to Rio Doce, came to claim the territory. Different versions collected by Rio Doce say that during the discussion one of the killers said that they were an absolute mob for Ivan. And that they were not condemned with Lord Mayo.
This was an unforgivable blow. Hours or days later Los Mayos looked for the culprit, but they refused to give it up. Within days one person turned up dead on one side and then one dead on the other side reported Rio Doce. After the incident, Chapo Guzman's sons demanded that Mayos hand over El Ruso. But the answer was negative. The confrontation between Los Nini and Los Rusos escalated with several armed attacks between the two criminal groups in the areas of Agua Caliente and Tepuche.
According to information shared by Infobae citing the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) after the extradition of El Chapo to the United States in 2017 along with El Mayo Zambada Jr. and Damasco Lopez Nunez known as El Licenciado. Los Chapitos continued with the tasks they were already performing before their father was arrested, producing and trafficking methamphetamine and marijuana. But the subsequent focus on fentanyl made the differences between Los Chapitos and El Mayo increasingly apparent.
Finally, according to Infobae, the latest opinion that would have caused Los Chapitos to no longer maintain a relationship with El Mayo Zambada, according to journalist Antonio Nieto, is that El Mayo Zambada was responsible for the re-arrest of Ovidio Guzman on January 5, 2023 .It is said that he decided to hand over El Rato as a warning to other members of Los Chapitos. Either they calm down or we will calm them down," Infobae reports.
Los Chapitos and El Mayo Zambada are currently contesting control of some areas of Baja California and Sonora, major drug-trafficking states.
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