A powerful faction of the Sinaloa cartel led by the sons of former Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán has banned the production and sale fentanyl in the eponymous state, according to banners posted in streets in her namehowever analysts maintain their doubts as to whether the gang she really intends to leave her extremely profitable this activity.
The banners – or narcomantas, as they are known – were seen in the state of Sinaloa yesterday Monday and are signed by the “Tsapitos”sons of Mr. Guzmán who took over to run the criminal empire after their father was extradited in 2017 to the US, where he is now serving a life sentence.
It is not clear who hung the banners on bridges and uneven junctions. However, they emerged as US authorities stepped up pressure on his own of Mexico in order to take action against gangs involved in the production of fentanyl.
The US government this year accused the Chapitos (the “little Chapos”) of being the main suppliers of fentanyl to the US market. Last month Ovidio Guzmán, the youngest of the four “Tsapitos”, was extradited to the US. “Selling, producing, transporting or whatever bussiness activity involving the substance known as fentanyl is strictly prohibited in Sinaloa,” the banners read.
Leo Silva, an agent of the federal drug enforcement agency (Drug Enforcement Administration, DEA), who has worked in Mexico, said that these messages may be part of an attempt by the “Tsapitos” to deny responsibility for the production of cocaine, to transfer it to others, APE-MPE broadcasts.
When considered in conjunction with the extradition of one of the four brothers, “it looks like an attempt to reduce the pressure they are under,” Mr. Silva said. “I don’t foresee them stopping production,” he added.
In July, the Riodoce news website, which publishes investigations on Sinaloa, reported that the Chapitos demanded that fentanyl manufacturers in Culiacan – the state capital – stop production. Then bodies of people who suffered torture were found and on them quantities of fentanyl pills. Obviously, this was a warning.
It is not clear whether the “Tsapitos” they can proceed to impose a ban on all of Sinaloa: much of the state is controlled by an old associate of their father, Ismael “El Mayo” Sabada, head of another faction of the cartel.
Mr Silva insisted he doubted Joaquin Guzmán’s sons would stop producing and trafficking fentanyl. “It’s too much money to let them go, or turn their backs on them,” he explained.
Source: News Beast
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