Almaguer did not name the group behind the kidnapping this week, except to describe it as an organization that has been active in Jalisco. Jesús Alfredo and his older brother Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar, 35, face federal drug trafficking and money laundering charges in the United States. Guzmán, known as El Chapo, or Shorty, was recaptured in January and is fighting extradition to the United States.
Peña Nieto had hailed his arrest in February 2014 as a major victory in a long campaign against the powerful narcotics rackets. His father’s escape last year from a maximum-security prison through a mile-long tunnel dug under his cell embarrassed the government of President Enrique Peña Nieto and underscored Mexico’s reputation for pervasive corruption and impunity for well-connected criminals. Guzmán was one of the missing men, who had not been heard from as of Tuesday night. Almaguer confirmed Tuesday that the younger Mr. Not a shot was fired as the gunmen hustled Jesús Alfredo Guzmán Salazar, 30 - an operative in the Sinaloa Cartel, Mexico’s most powerful criminal enterprise - and the others into sport utility vehicles, according to the attorney general for Jalisco State, Eduardo Almaguer. Now, it turns out that a son of the drug cartel leader Joaquín Guzmán Loera was one of the six men abducted at gunpoint early Monday morning. Both brothers are now free.MEXICO CITY - The abduction was notable for how and where it took place - during a birthday party at a restaurant in the Mexican Pacific Coast resort of Puerto Vallarta - and because the kidnappers and the victims are criminals. He then orchestrated a bloody and high-profile show of violence in Culiacan, Sinaloa that eventually pressured the Mexican government to let Ovidio go.
However, according to The New York Times, Ivan was freed by cartel gunman who overpowered his captors. Some of El Chapo’s friends and associates blatantly post photos of weapons on social media.Įl Chapo’s sons hit the headlines in October 2019 when the Mexican military briefly arrested Ivan and his younger half-brother, Ovidio Guzman Lopez. On pages widely attributed to him, he highlights luxury cars, trips, private planes, alcohol, and women. Ivan blurs faces out of the photos that he posts on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter, but that’s the only nod to the secrecy he must maintain. In fact, his son Ivan Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar, said to be the most powerful of the Los Chapitos (Little Chapos/Little Shorties) who run El Chapo’s cartel, frequently posts photos showcasing his ostentatious lifestyle on social media. El Chapo’s sons don’t lead lives off the radar.
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