A sicario who used to work for the infamous Sinaloa Cartel revealed that prisons in Mexico are actually run by the drug cartels.

Ali Gonzalez was once a sicario, or a hitman, for the Sinaloa Cartel, which was once run by El Chapo, the most notorious drug lord in North America.

He sat down with the LadBible YouTube channel for an interview and admitted that prisons are effectively run by the cartels, and the guards can do nothing about it as they have been warned that there might be deadly consequences on the outside.

According to the Daily Star, Gonzalez noted that prostitution and drugs are everywhere inside jails, and things often got violent over just petty grievances. Gonzalez even admitted to killing dozens of rival gang members on the orders of his cartel bosses.

The former Sinaloa Cartel sicario recalled a riot in which he says 14 people were killed, including the main boss of a rival gang.

"The main boss was decapitated and they were playing basketball with his head. The anti-riot correctional officers came and they knocked on the door of the maximum security door but they weren't allowed in," he said.

Gonzalez says that he left the cartel after realizing that the cartel bosses were not looking after him as well as they promised. However, when he broke up with them, his life was in danger, so he was transferred from a normal jail and into a "maximum-security lockup with over 13,000 prisoners." This was where he saw that gruesome riot where inmates played basketball with the head of the fallen gang boss.

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Sinaloa Cartel Ordered Members To Stop Trafficking Fentanyl

The Sinaloa Cartel is perhaps the most powerful and richest cartel in Mexico. It has become even richer, being the top fentanyl producer in Mexico. However, as the US and Mexican governments begin cracking down on fentanyl, cartel bosses are ordering all members to stop pushing these deadly opioids.

The order came from the Los Chapitos faction of the cartel, which is run by El Chapo's four favored sons. The penalty for those members who break this order will be death, the cartel leaders warned.

The Daily Mail reported that it had been harder for the cartel to make more fentanyl after the Biden administration pushed for stricter enforcement against fentanyl in Mexico. This led to the order, and Los Chapitos members are now enforcing it brutally, leading to the deaths of many street dealers who failed to comply.

Nine Sinaloa Cartel Members Indicted in the US

While its leaders are struggling with stricter laws in Mexico, several men tied with the cartel's fentanyl trafficking operations have been indicted in the US.

The DEA official website stated that this came after a 6-month investigation uncovered that uncovered a fentanyl operation in Colorado's Adams County. Nine people are now accused of smuggling fentanyl, methamphetamine, and cocaine into Adams County. These suspects have also been connected to Sinaloa Cartel operations that connected Mexico to Colorado, Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona.

READ MORE: Los Chapitos, Among 28 Sinaloa Cartel Members Charged by US Government

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Written by: Rick Martin

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