El Chapo sons among Sinaloa

cartel members charged by US

Sons of drugs kingpin "El Chapo" are amongst participants of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel
charged inside the United States with strolling a large operation that supplies fentanyl to
the US.
The operation was allegedly fuelled with the aid of Chinese chemical agencies.
Fentanyl is chargeable for the deaths of tens of lots, particularly young Americans, every 12
months.
Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, the previous Sinaloa cartel chief, is serving an existence sentence
in the US.
His three sons charged - Ovidio Guzmán López, Jesús Alfredo Guzmán Salazar, and Iván
Archivaldo Guzmán Sálazar - are called the Chapitos, or little Chapos and are believed to be the
more violent faction of the cartel.
"They recognize that they're poisoning and killing Americans. They just do not care because they
make billions of dollars doing it," Anne Milgram, leader of the US Drug Enforcement
Administration, said of Guzman's sons.
"Their greed is stunning and without bounds."
Federal prosecutors announced three separate indictments charging 28 defendants based in
Mexico, China, and Guatemala, eight of whom are in custody.
Attorney General Merrick Garland is known as "the largest, maximum violent, maximum
prolific fentanyl trafficking operation within the international."

Fentanyl is a synthetic Overview up to 50 instances more potent than heroin and one
hundred instances more potent than morphine, in step with the United States Centers for
Disease authority and Prevention (CDC).
Ovidio Guzman Lopez, one of El Chapo's boys nicknamed "The Mouse," arrested in Mexico
earlier this year, is the simplest brother in custody and expecting extradition.
At least 29 humans had been killed at some stage in the bloody operation to arrest him in
January. Furious gang members installed avenue blocks, set hearth to dozens of vehicles, and
attacked planes at a local airport.
He became indicted in a Manhattan federal court on six counts, consisting of conspiracy to
import and distribute fentanyl. He faces life in jail.
Prosecutors also charged four owners of Chinese corporations accused of supplying chemicals to
the cartel.
The US Treasury Department hit two China-primarily based chemical organizations with
sanctions.
Mr. Garland stated that the Chinese authorities "need to prevent the unchecked waft of fentanyl
precursor chemicals which can be coming out of China."
A document quantity of nearly 107,000 Americans died of drug overdoses inside the US in 2021,
in line with the CDC.