Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar, leader of Los Chapitos and son of Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán, ordered the construction of telecommunications towers from Sonora to Sinaloa to request support from cells allied to his organization in case there were operations to arrest him.
In an interview with Infobae México, journalist Luis Chaparro recalled that after the capture of Ovidio Guzmán López on January 5, 2023 in the town of Jesús María, municipality of Culiacán, Sinaloa, Iván Archivaldo sought to build several alliances in the state of Sonora.
The journalist specialized in security and drug trafficking issues assured that El Chapo Guzmán’s son tried to gather all his people in Sonora to have support when the authorities went to arrest him.
“Apparently Iván Archivaldo was trying to win the alliance of everyone in Sonora, of all criminal organizations including the Caborca Cartel, offering drugs, offering protection and not money. This is to say that we are going to get together so that when they ‘attack me’, I can send for people from Sonora, Durango, Chihuahua, from everywhere, it will be a mess,” Chaparro told Infobae.
Luis Chaparro, who publishes all his journalistic investigations in Saga and collaborates in the magazine Proceso, recalled that El Chapo’s son ordered the installation of telecommunications towers from Sonora to Sinaloa to have direct communication with the different criminal cells related to his organization without having to use the public radio spectrum and be tapped.
He said that he also sought to have encrypted phones, because he began to mistrust after the capture of his brother: “He said we are going to install a network of towers so that only I can communicate with my people and that no one else has access.”
“I don’t know how far they advanced. I understand that several things began to be installed in Caborca and in Pitiquito, in several towns there in Sonora, but let’s say that I don’t think that has prospered, just as I don’t think that the alliance with organizations of that size in Sonora to go and fight for it (in Cualiacán) has prospered,” he told this publishing house.
Infobae Mexico reported last October that elements of the National Defense Secretariat (Sedena) and the Criminal Investigation Ministerial Agency (AMIC) dismantled a drug camp used by criminal groups operating in Sonoyta, Sonora, where there was a 12-meter-high repeater antenna that was used for communication of illicit activities.
“The camp was strategically located on top of a 1,000-meter-high hill (Cerro Cubano), making access difficult,” said the state Security Board.
At least three criminal cells operate in Sonoyta, such as Los Rusos, Los Deltas and Los Pelones, all cells of the Pacific Cartel. Although Los Salazar and the Caborca Cartel also operate.
Los Deltas and Los Pelones operate for Los Chapitos, while Los Rusos do so for the faction of Ismael Zambada Sicairos, El Mayito Flaco, who maintains an internal dispute within the Pacific Cartel with the sons of El Chapo Guzmán in Culiacán and other municipalities of Sinaloa.
The Salazars disassociated themselves from Los Menores, as Los Chapitos are also known, after Iván Archivaldo ordered with narco-banners to stop the manufacture and distribution of fentanyl to the United States last year. This situation caused a confrontation between the cells that followed the orders of Guzmán Salazar and Los Salazar, who began to operate independently, which caused a wave of violence in the state.
Source: infobae
