The United States on Tuesday targeted two Mexican companies, along with two Mexican men, for what it said was their role in assisting the infamous Sinaloa Cartel associated with drug lords Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman and Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada.
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“This is the latest attack on the family of the imprisoned kingpin and may signal an open challenge to Chapo Guzman’s Sinaloa cartel from the upstart Jalisco New Generation gang”, she says.
The Mirror reported that, according to police sources, the abduction was a “settling of scores” as El-Chapo waits for extradition to the U.S. to stand trial for drug trafficking charges.
But Eduardo Almaguer, Jalisco state attorney general, isn’t so sure. In a separate interview, Almaguer suggested that another of El Chapo’s sons, Alfredo, may have been the one kidnapped, but this also is not confirmed.
Seven gunmen in pickup trucks swooped on the upscale bar and restaurant Monday around dawn and abducted six victims.
Mexican drug lord, El Chapo during an arrest late previous year.
Salazar’s mother, provided “material support to the drug trafficking activities of her husband Guzman Loera and the Sinaloa Cartel”.
On Wednesday, Mexican journalist Denise Maerker published a photograph of Alfredo Guzman with Mexican soap opera actress Kate Del Castillo.
While the details surrounding the kidnapping are still under investigation, Guzman family attorney Pablo Badillo says “it’s very likely” that the drug cartel leader’s eldest son, Ivan Archivaldo, was abducted.
The Mexican army, federal police, state police and the country’s prosecution office have all joined the search to locate the missing men and their kidnappers.
According to earlier reports the 29-year-old was taken by a rival cartel who want to “settle scores” with the world’s most famous drug dealer.
Jesus Alfredo Guzman Salazar, the 29-year-old son of Guzman, has been confirmed by authorities as one of the abducted men.
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“The fact that he is in prison is visible and, above all in Ciudad Juarez (in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua), has made part of his family vulnerable, to a certain extent, and Joaquin Guzman’s rival groups have taken advantage of this”, said Barron.
