In 2019, El Chapo, the Sinaloa cartel’s founder, was awarded a life sentence
The sons of infamous drug lord Joaquin ”El Chapo” Guzman and their cartel associates allegedly used corkscrews, electrocution and scorching chiles to torture their rivals, in response to an indictment just lately launched by the US Justice Division. A few of their enemies have additionally allegedly been ”fed lifeless or alive to tigers.”
As per a report by CBS Information, Ovidio Guzman Lopez, Jesus Alfredo Guzman Salazar and Ivan Archivaldo Guzman Salazar –known because the Chapitos, or little Chapos, had been amongst 28 Sinaloa cartel members charged final week in connection to a widespread fentanyl trafficking operation.
The indictment additionally particulars the barbaric strategies of torture and executions utilized by the cartel to increase energy and intimidate enemies.
“As soon as the data was obtained by these captives, sometimes by means of torture, these people had been killed both by or on the path of the Chapitos themselves and the our bodies disposed of all through the realm. Whereas many of those victims had been shot, others had been fed lifeless or alive to tigers” belonging to Ivan and Alfredo”, the indictment says.
Prosecutors additional claimed the 2017 seize and dying of two Mexican federal regulation enforcement officers concerned two of El Chapo’s sons. Whereas considered one of them was interrogated and subsequently killed, the opposite was subjected to horrific torture.
”For roughly two hours, members of the Ninis tortured Sufferer-5 by inserting a corkscrew into Sufferer 5’s muscle tissue, ripping it out of his muscle tissue, and inserting scorching chiles in his open wounds and nostril” earlier than being shot lifeless by Ivan Archivaldo Guzman Salazar, the indictment alleges.
In addition they used electrocution and waterboarding to torture members of rival drug cartels in addition to associates who refused to pay money owed.
In 2019, El Chapo, the Sinaloa cartel’s founder, was awarded a life sentence in a most safety jail in Colorado. A jury convicted him of drug trafficking and interesting in a number of homicide conspiracies because the chief of the Sinaloa Cartel. In January 2023, Ovidio Guzman, nicknamed “El Raton” was additionally captured.
Nonetheless, the cartel nonetheless stays one of the vital highly effective in Mexico, accused of exploiting an opioid epidemic by flooding communities with fentanyl, an artificial drug about 50 occasions stronger than heroin.