The drug, which is responsible for a record number of overdose deaths, began to make inroads in the 2010s, then skyrocketed with the Covid-19 pandemic. Dealers don’t know how to use it so they don’t kill their customers, says Sam Quinones, the great chronicler of the opioid crisis
The company accused by the United States of aiding the Sinaloa Cartel has sold millions of pesos worth of precursor chemicals and laboratory equipment to Sinaloa governments and federal government agencies
The Treasury Department alleges that Joaquín Guzmán López trafficked fentanyl and other drugs into the United States. He is the fourth son of ‘El Chapo’ to face sanctions
A lawyer for the Guzmán family shared a statement with Mexican television in which the heirs of ‘El Chapo’ claim they are ‘victims of persecution’ because of their notorious father
Anne Milgram said the criminal organization was operating in more than 40 countries, and had become more ‘ruthless’ since it was taken over by the sons of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán
The judicial crackdown against relatives, old partners and informants has been decisive in detaining top members of the Sinaloa Cartel. The evidence collected will be key to putting the capo’s heirs on trial
José Wilfredo Ayala, second-in-command of the notorious MS-13 criminal organization and one the FBI’s most wanted fugitives, faces multiple charges in New York
The heirs of Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán have transformed the Sinaloa Cartel. According to the Department of Justice, the drug lord’s children have overseen a massive increase in fentanyl being trafficking from Mexico into the United States
The charges were filed against cartel leaders, as well alleged chemical suppliers, lab managers, fentanyl traffickers, security leaders, financiers and weapons traffickers
Mexican federal sources confirm that a diplomatic letter has been issued requesting that the Sinaloa Cartel leader be sent to the US to stand trial for trafficking with marijuana and cocaine
The trial of former president Felipe Calderón’s secretary of public security demolishes the myth of the super-policeman who took on the cartels and reveals him to be the partner of the criminals he promised to fight