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By: The opinion Posted Mar 18, 2023, 16:15 pm EDT
Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman began to write a story in the world of drug trafficking, his name was known throughout the world, especially after his captures and subsequent prison escapes. His brothers tried to follow in his footsteps, only one is still free and active: Aureliano “El Guano” Guzmanwho became a priority target of the authorities.
El Chapo’s older brother is considered El Chapo’s second in command. Sinaloa carteljust below Ismael “El Mayo” Zambadafor which reason an operation was carried out last February to capture him, but he managed to escape.
It was in the El Durazno community, located in the municipality of Tamazula, Durango, where elements of the National Defense Secretariat (Sedena) were deployed to capture the capo, and although the large mobilization generated expectations, the arrest was not achieved.
According to the newspaper Milenio, the residents of El Durazno described Aureliano’s house to the authorities as a property with a black gate and a concrete ramp, made of white and blue bricks, with two floors.
The soldiers located her, reached her, but “El Guano” escaped through a false door that overlooked the hills. By air and by land they searched for him, their objective was to extradite him to the United States, where the authorities claim him and offer a reward of five million dollars for himbut the capo fled, as if the earth had swallowed him.
They said they were surprised by his ability to escape, since it has been reported that the man between 78 and 79 years old suffers from diabetes, which has reduced his health and complicates his mobility, for which they considered him an easy target, but it was not.
Following the trail of “El Guano”
A sailor who requested anonymity told Milenio how they tracked down the drug trafficker. From the foothills of the Sierra Madre Occidental, the agents were collecting information from residents of the Golden Triangle —sometimes false, sometimes with fear— and contrasting it with the data that they had been given by the Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) to make your tracking more effective.
They raided several housesAureliano sleeps under a crucifix, does not wear ostentatious clothes or accessories, does not drink, smoke or take drugs, and those who know him say that his only vice is power.
But in contrast to his apparently simple everyday life, “El Guano” has a long history of murders, which include elements of the Armed Forces.
His explosive nature is known to all, his anger costs the lives of even those closest to him, such as Rafael Díaz Beltrán, alias Rafita, whom many considered his adopted son and head of the plaza in Tamazula, after learning that he had disobeyed the law. order not to collect extortion from residents of Durango.
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