Sinaloa Cartel Boss El Chapo's Nephew Gunned Down in Mexico's Chihuahua State

A nephew of Sinaloa Cartel boss Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera was reportedly gunned down in Mexico's Chihuahua state on Thursday morning.

According to Borderland Beat, Edel Guzman Martinez, 36, a resident of Badiraguato town in Sinaloa state, was shot repeatedly while he was in the main square of Guadalupe y Calvo in Chihuahua.

Authorities said El Chapo's nephew was taken to a nearby hospital, where he died minutes later. His body was reportedly riddled with bullet wounds.

According to local reports, Guzman Martinez was among the two men murdered in Guadalupe y Calvo municipality that day. The second man was found dead in the vicinity of the La Minita neighborhood with a stab wound to the neck hours after El Chapo's nephew was killed.

The man, who was between 25 and 30 years of age, remains unidentified. No other details were known at this time.

Another El Chapo's Nephew Shot Dead in Mexico

El Chapo's nephew Enrique Homero Guzman Rocha was found dead inside a car in Culiacan city in Sinaloa state in July 2020. His bullet-riddled body was found in an abandoned red Toyota Corolla on a road to El Ranchito in Culiacan.

According to Daily Mail, investigators said family members of the 45-year-old man identified him before his remains were sent to forensic experts. Sinaloa authorities have not made arrests nor offered a motive for the killing of El Chapo's nephew at the time.

Guzman Rocha reportedly survived an assassination attempt on July 2019 when several gunmen chased his vehicle in Pemex at Culiacan town. However, his girlfriend died in the attack.

El Chapo's nephew, who suffered a gunshot wound, was able to flee from the armed men at the time by driving into an oil company parking lot. In December 2011, Guzman Rocha's brother, Juan "El Juanon" Guzman, was killed along with another man after armed men kidnapped them.

During El Chapo's trial in New York in January 2019, a former lover of the jailed drug lord said El Chapo allegedly ordered the hit for betraying him.

El Chapo's mistress, Lucero Guadalupe Sanchez Lopez, told the court that the Mexican drug kingpin "did not react" after hearing the tragic news and said that "whoever betrayed him was going to die, whether they were family or women."

El Chapo and the Sinaloa Cartel

El Chapo is currently imprisoned in one of the most secure prisons in the U.S. The infamous Sinaloa Cartel boss was first arrested in Guatemala in 1993 and extradited to Mexico, where he was sentenced to 20 years in prison for murder and drug trafficking.

But in 2001, the Mexican drug kingpin escaped from prison. He was arrested again in 2014 in Sinaloa and again escaped from prison through a tunnel the following year.

In January 2016, Mexican officials announced that El Chapo had been captured again. He was extradited to the U.S. the following year. El Chapo was sentenced to spend the rest of his days in the ADX Florence "supermax" prison in Colorado after being sentenced to life imprisonment in 2019.

But even when he's behind bars, the Sinaloa Cartel remained one of the world's most powerful drug trafficking syndicates. The Mexican drug cartel has been known for carrying out assassinations, murders, and torture to protect its turf. Sin

The Sinaloa Cartel seems to have taken its style from Colombia's Cali Cartel by creating strong connections to Mexico's political and economic elite. It has also successfully penetrated government and security forces in areas where the cartel operates.

InsightCrime reported that the Sinaloa Cartel's most powerful contacts have traditionally been in the National Action Party. Some sources claimed that the party helped account for the drug cartel's growth in the last decade.

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Written by: Mary Webber

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