What are ‘Los Chapitos’ doing after the ban on fentanyl? These are your new businesses

He The Sinaloa Cartel Its structure has undergone significant changes over the past 12 months. Because of the capture of Ovidio Guzman Lopez and the war the United States Department of Justice is waging against him, Fentanyl His occupation has been removed from the list and, now, the criminal organization receives its income ‘New’ criminal activities.

However ‘Los Chapitos’ – a group led by the children of Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán – gained much popularity after being identified as responsible for “the largest, most violent and prolific fentanyl trafficking operation in the world”. This Secretariat of National Defense (Sedena) reports that they had to abandon him at the behest of Ismail ‘El Mayo’ Zambada, the head of another group of the Sinaloa cartel, with whom they would have allied.

According to Millenniumlván Archivaldo and Jesús Alfredo Guzman Salazar, the main leaders of ‘Los Chapitos’, They agreed to a truce with his father’s former partner to face their common enemies together. However, ‘El Mayo’ will demand three things in return, including giving up the synthetic opioid business.

Along these lines, it is believed that the successors of former drug traffickers entered Trafficking of undocumented migrants According to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), they have been producing since 2014 to recoup income from the production and distribution of fentanyl, a narcotic.

“The issue of migration was put in the report because it is something that is already being looked at. This Mass kidnapping Altar of Central Americans, in Saric or Benjamin Hill, there Sonora“It belongs to their own people,” the Sedena member revealed to the aforementioned media.

According to the investigation, the Sinaloa cartel used its connections to both the south and north of Mexico – Baja California, Sonora and Chihuahua, where it operates – to carry out the crime.

“We know they’ve grown up 5 thousand dollars A charge for ‘jumping’ to California or Arizona,” the soldier added.

But that’s not the only new business for ‘Los Chapitos’.

During the last months, said group may have taken advantage of the market for sale Electronic cigarettesWhich they will probably try to control.

Evidence of this could be what happened in December 2023 in Guaceve, Sinaloa, when two minors were seen naked on the streets and in facilities. Autonomous University of Occident (UAdeO) to sell vape.

On that occasion, the head of the State Attorney General’s Office (FGE), SARA BRUNA QUINONES ESTRADA, announced that an organized crime group was behind the operation. At the time it was believed to be Beltran Leyva Cartel.

It should be noted that the United States maintains or now produces the Triad as well Cocaine, marijuana, heroin and methamphetamineMedicines whose production is not restricted in their area of ​​operation.