By The opinion
28 Oct 2023, 3:18 PM EDT
The sons of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán They inherited their father’s criminal empire. Known as Los Chapitos, Ovidio Guzman is the most media-friendly, but the revelations of Damaso López Serranoalias “El Mini Lic” put the other three descendants of the boss in the public eye.
According to what the now collaborator of the American justice system said to the Mexican journalist Anabel Hernández in an interview, Alfredo Guzman Salazarbetter known as “Alfredillo”, is the most violent of El Chapo’s children, despite the fact that his appearance is reserved and introverted.
The violence that was ingrained in him since he was little when he grew up in the environment of organized crime becomes irrational when under the influence of alcohol, because he becomes someone difficult to control. Furthermore, Alfredo does not show compassion even to his own family, Dámaso asserted.
Alfredillo’s violence
There are several moments in which Alfredillo’s fury broke out, which were witnessed by the “Mini Lic”. One of them occurred when he attacked one of his cousins for believing that he was recording Ovidio.
But another of the most violent episodes occurred in Culiacán, Sinaloa, and the victim was a driver from López Serano. According to the testimony that the interviewee gave to the journalist for the newspaper Milenio, the worker was accused of theft under the argument that he did business without “giving them their share.”
As punishment they deprived him of his freedom and then They threw him to a tiger, like in the Roman Colosseum. The feline tore off one of his hands and his genitals. His lifeless body was dumped on the main streets, near where the victim’s mother lived.
Los Chapitos wanted to leave drug trafficking
Another of the statements that “Mini Lic” gave to Hernández is that Los Chapitos thought about leaving the drug business when their father was extradited, since they assured that “El Chapo” left them absolutely nothing, except debts, enemies and the responsibility of supporting their aunts, so they told Dámaso López, “The Graduate”, that they would take care of everything, since, in addition, they would leave Sinaloa.
By then they had been trafficking fentanyl for three years, something that left them millions of dollars in profits. For this crime, Los Chapitos became priority targets of the US government, and López Serrano’s testimonies have been crucial in pointing out the children of “El Chapo.”
Keep reading:
– Javier Valdez, the journalist who had Los Chapitos killed for an interview.
– “El Mini Lic” details how the Sinaloa Cartel bribed García Luna and supported Peña Nieto.