How El Chapo’s sons built a fentanyl empire poisoning America
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A gang soldier calling himself Güero, a silver pistol tucked into his waistband, last year gave Reuters a tour of a cartel safe house on the edge of Culiacán. There, two young men in white surgical gloves sat at a brown lacquered table carefully stuffing white powder into transparent capsules – methamphetamine samples for a new client looking to ship in bulk to the United States, Güero said.
As fentanyl and meth production have soared, U.S. seizures have likewise skyrocketed. Interdictions of fentanyl alone on the U.S.-Mexico border hit 14,104 pounds (6,397 kilograms) in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2022, up more than 400% since 2019, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data.
Inside Mexico, meanwhile, the Army had a grudge to settle.
In early January of this year, the Army told López Obrador it planned to mount a top-secret operation to recapture Ovidio, according to a then-senior government official with direct knowledge of the events. The president approved the mission but was not informed of the date and time, the source said.
Mexico’s Army and the presidency did not respond to requests for comment about the official’s account.
As hundreds of soldiers encircled Ovidio’s rural Sinaloan compound in the pre-dawn assault, a helicopter strafed targets from the air, video of the incident showed.
Cartel gunmen went on a rampage again, setting cars on fire, blocking roads and forcing Culiacán’s airport to shut by shooting at passenger jets. The violence left 29 people dead, including 10 armed forces personnel. But the sicarios were too late – a military chopper had already whisked Ovidio out of Sinaloa.
Despite that blow to the Sinaloa Cartel, fentanyl keeps flowing north. In February and March, U.S. border agents seized a combined 5,130 pounds (2,326 kilograms) of fentanyl in two of the biggest monthly hauls ever.
That North East usage
Spidey Man
Superstar
Taught his children the family business and gave them the tools needed to grow and succeed on their own. Sounds like a great father. 
El Chapo or D. Wade, who's a better father?Taught his children the family business and gave them the tools needed to grow and succeed on their own. Sounds like a great father.
Json
Superstar
Need to do them Chapo boys what we did to Saddam’s sons
Like what they said in Harley Quinn. Kill whole families. Leave no one alive
Like what they said in Harley Quinn. Kill whole families. Leave no one alive
Spidey Man
Superstar
need to make the precursors more hard to get ahold of
need to legalize coke and heroin already as well, most of the deaths are result of dirty drugs
Yup. We legalize drugs it'll be cleaner and safer and the cartels lose most of their power
I remember hearing personally that Ivan was an a$$hole in Culiacan like around 2015
That he was taxing everyone, and sure enough, years later, it's all in the indictment, even down to the beer money fee.
Worth reading the Southern District one, if anyone wanted to understand the Sinaloa Cartel inside and out, plenty of details about killings and testing fentanyl on captives. From a business perspective, they did it 100% right, they created, cornered and controlled the market, became almost entirely vertically integrated, they produced, exported, and distributed, franchised, sales of fentanyl. They diversified the product, pills, and power, and maximized revenue. That's Wall Street/Wharton shyt. Their Dad would not have done it so hard though, he would have thought about the US pushback.
Los Chapitos will either die in a gunfight or do life in super max. There's no chance they can get out now, and you can tell the US will be cutting no deals for cooperation.
here's another funny part, is they responded to the allegations in a letter, saying "we never fed people to to tigers, we don't even have tigers, a tiger could kill someone but not eat them" lol
The story or the indictment isn't going to get every detail, but the Damaso's/Chapitos war was brutal, and at one point they tossed bodies from a plane onto Damaso's home town in Sinaloa, word was they were alive when they went out of the plane.
That he was taxing everyone, and sure enough, years later, it's all in the indictment, even down to the beer money fee.
Worth reading the Southern District one, if anyone wanted to understand the Sinaloa Cartel inside and out, plenty of details about killings and testing fentanyl on captives. From a business perspective, they did it 100% right, they created, cornered and controlled the market, became almost entirely vertically integrated, they produced, exported, and distributed, franchised, sales of fentanyl. They diversified the product, pills, and power, and maximized revenue. That's Wall Street/Wharton shyt. Their Dad would not have done it so hard though, he would have thought about the US pushback.
Los Chapitos will either die in a gunfight or do life in super max. There's no chance they can get out now, and you can tell the US will be cutting no deals for cooperation.
here's another funny part, is they responded to the allegations in a letter, saying "we never fed people to to tigers, we don't even have tigers, a tiger could kill someone but not eat them" lol
The story or the indictment isn't going to get every detail, but the Damaso's/Chapitos war was brutal, and at one point they tossed bodies from a plane onto Damaso's home town in Sinaloa, word was they were alive when they went out of the plane.
Spidey Man
Superstar
Can't wait for the Netflix series where we can see the cartel shooting it out with the Mexican army in 4k.
Ozymandeas
Veteran
One American dies from an fentanyl overdose every 8 minutes. SMH.
Wargames
One Of The Last Real Ones To Do It
The US is going to treat those boys like Saddam’s sons.
MAGA found their new boogeyman in cartels, but of course they won't offer good solutions for that problem and stick to more policeforce and tighter borders
