Journalists at the AP news agency consulted by EL PAÍS say that the gradual decline of the Sinaloa Cartel has been matched by Guzmán’s downfall, and that his family name no longer instills the fear it once did. Journalist Anabel Hernández, who has written extensively about Mexico’s cartels, says that Iván Archivaldo has been kidnapped, and not, as the media and the authorities say, Jesús Alfredo. “It’s very likely that both of the sons were kidnapped, because they always hung out together,” he says. A Facebook page opened in the name of Alfredo shows photographs of piles of dollar bills, sports cars, and gold-plated weapons.Īn indication of their lack of caution is that they were dining out in a well-known restaurant in the upscale tourist resort of Puerto Vallarta, an area disputed by the new kids on the block, Jalisco Nueva Generación, says Reveles. “They were show-offs, loud-mouthed and very indiscreet,” says Mexican journalist José Reveles, author of around a dozen books on his country’s drug trade. The two young men frequently posted photographs and videos of their luxury lifestyle, as well as issuing threats to rival cartels.Īll of El Chapo’s children, as well as his wife, Alejandrina Salazar, have been accused of carrying out killings on their father’s behalf Members of a new generation of drug traffickers – dubbed the “narcojuniors” – El Chapo’s two sons have developed a reputation for taking risks and showing off, unsettling the old guard. Both are mentioned in the recent story published in Rolling Stone magazine written by US actor Sean Penn, as well as being responsible for collecting him and Mexican actress and close friend of El Chapo Kate del Castillo when Penn interviewed the kingpin. Over the last decade, as the Mexican army and the DEA closed in on El Chapo, he and his brother Iván were put in charge of his security detail. However, at the tender age of 30, Alfredo is already a veteran. it was terrible.The authorities are looking into whether a seventh man, who managed to escape minutes before the kidnapping took place, is Iván Archivaldo, one of El Chapo’s nine childrenĪll of El Chapo’s children, as well as his wife, Alejandrina Salazar, have been accused of involvement in the drugs trade and of carrying out killings on their father’s behalf.Īlfredo and Iván Archivaldo, aged 30 and 35 respectively, are closest to their father and considered the heirs apparent of the Sinaloa Cartel, regarded as the world’s largest criminal enterprise, employing thousands of people and with a presence in around 100 nations, as well as running more airplanes than Mexico’s flag carrier Aeromexico.īut while they may end up taking over their father’s business, assuming they live long enough, they do not seem to have inherited his discretion.īorn and brought up amid the kingpins of the global drugs trade, Alfredo is the youngest of the four children El Chapo had with his first wife. It’s going to be the Mexican government,” Del Castillo said on “Red Table Talk.” “I would take back that my parents and my family and all my friends they were scrutinized. “Everybody here knows that if something happens to me or my family, it’s not el cartel. And risked my life and my parents’ life and my sister’s life and everybody surrounding me.”ĭel Castillo had previously communicated with the convicted drug trafficker after posting a controversial 2012 tweet declaring that she believed “more in El Chapo Guzmán” than “governments that hide truths from me,” to illustrate her disillusion with the Mexican government. Penn not only threw her under the bus, the TV star said, “he used me as a bait, and then he never protected me. To this day, Del Castillo said she has “no savings” because “everything has gone to paying lawyers and still paying the Mexican government.” witness protection program - all while pregnant with the child of a onetime lover whose death she had personally ordered.Īs a result, Del Castillo was forced to leave her family and career in Mexico behind “to avoid persecution,” as Gloria Estefan put it. The last time the world saw notorious drug trafficker Teresa Mendoza, she had narrowly evaded capture by Spanish police, survived a shootout that resulted in the death of her most loyal associate, publicly testified over the narcotrafficking roots of a prominent Mexican politician, then disappeared into the clutches of the U.S. Entertainment & Arts Kate del Castillo on how El Chapo made her broke and her return as TV drug lord ‘La Reina’
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