Ovidio Guzmán López, nicknamed the Mouse, was arrested in January in the capital of Sinaloa, Culiacan state. Photo: US STATE DEPARTMENT
Joaquin According to a US open indictment, the sons of drug lord Guzmán allegedly fed rival Mexican human traffickers to their pet tigers and poured hot chili peppers on open wounds during torture.
Iván Guzmán Salazar, Alfredo Guzmán Salazar, Joaquín Guzmán López and Ovidio Guzmán López, known as «Chapitos», have been indicted by the US Attorney's Office for numerous crimes, including murder, fentanyl trafficking, money laundering, and firearms.
The sheer brutality of their alleged criminal enterprise was exposed in indictment papers released by the Southern District of New York, detailing how captives of the Sinaloa cartel, including rival traffickers and officials who threatened its operations, were taken to a ranch owned by Ivan's older brother. where they will be tortured.
Torture sessions included waterboarding and electric shocks by the cartel's nini, a «particularly vicious group of sicarios,» or hitmen trained in «urban combat and sniping skills,» the indictment states.
One ripped the muscle of a Mexican federal law enforcement officer with a corkscrew from a nini, and then «poured hot chili into his open wounds and nose.» After that, Ivan allegedly shot the officer.
The eldest son of Joaquin «El Chapo» Guzman Ivan Guzman Salazar Photo: CEN 
After Joaquin «El Chapo» Guzmán was found guilty on 10 drug-related charges in 2019, a judge in New York City sentenced him to life in prison plus 30 years.
The gang tested their drugs on captives and coaxed information out of them before eventually killing them.
The cartel's rivals and uncooperative government officials were fed dead or live tigers belonging to the Salazar brothers, which they kept on their ranch as pets.
The indictment further states: “Partly as a result of such violence, the Cartel has increased its power and the Chapito faction has grown. Under Chapito's leadership, the Cartel has achieved near-complete control of all drug trafficking activities in many parts of Mexico, including the manufacture and importation of fentanyl from those parts of Mexico into the United States.
Ovidio Guzmán López was arrested in January in Culiacan, the capital of Sinaloa. Nicknamed the Mouse, he was not one of El Chapo's most famous sons until the operation to capture him was aborted three years earlier.
This time, Mexico successfully pulled Guzmán from Culiacan. In 2019, he was with the authorities, but was released after the militants began firing on the city.
The wide-ranging case arises as the US continues to be in the grip of a devastating overdose crisis, mostly fentanyl poisoning. Nearly 107,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in the US in 2021, a record high.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador this week accused the US of «espionage» and «interference», suggesting that the case was based on information gathered by U.S. agents in Mexico.
He called the Sinaloa investigation «an abusive, arrogant interference that must not be allowed under any circumstances»,
unnamed members of the Anti-Corruption Agent The U.S. Drug Administration told U.S. media that Mr. López Obrador mistakenly believed that U.S. agents needed to be in Mexico to collect intelligence on the case. In fact, most of the case appears to involve human trafficking suspects caught on US soil.
After Joaquin «El Chapo» Guzmán was found guilty of 10 charges in 2019 related to drugs, he was sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years by a judge in New York.
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