A family party ends in Chapo son's kidnapping

What began as a bachelor party for Esmeralda, a cousin of Ivan Archivaldo and Alfredo Guzman Salazar, sons of leader of the Sinaloa cartel, Joaquin Guzman Loera, in the popular restaurant "La Leche" in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, finished in a kidnap of at least six of the men attending the party.

Among the kidnapped people was Alfredo, another cousin named Jose Manuel Diaz Burgos and the fiance of Emeralda, which we only know that he was an entrepreneur of Colima and is between 35 and 38 years old.

According to the information gathered from sources linked to Guzman family, Ivan Archivaldo attended the celebration and was also about to be kidnapped with the group as he was also in the La Leche restaurant early Monday, but he had left a few moments before the armed command came to the place.

That situation generated confusion in the family of the capo, who first believed that the son of El Chapo that had been kidnapped was Ivan and not Alfredo, and even fiscal general of Jalisco, Eduardo Almaguer, minutes before the conference given Tuesday 16, confirmed the illegal deprivation of liberty of Ivan.

Alfredo Guzman Salazar and Ivan, 36 and 30, respectively, are two of the four children that El Chapo Guzman fathered with his first marriage with Alejandrina Salazar, Cesar, Ivan Archivaldo, Gisele and Alfredo.

Alfredo, was confirmed by the Office of Jalisco, as one of the kidnapped people on Monday, he is accused by the Federal Court North Chicago District, in file: 09-CR-0038, of conspiring to traffic drug along with his father, Vicente Zambada Niebla, Vicente Zambada Garcia, Felipe Cabrera Sarabia, Germán Olivares, Tomas Arevalo Rentería and others. The prosecutor in Chicago has recordings with Alfredo Guzman Salazar allegedly making negotiations with the twin brothers Pedro and Margarito Flores.

According to the prosecution, Alfredo Guzman Loera is responsible for logistics of drug shipments sent by the Sinaloa Cartel to wholesale customers, as the brothers Flores.

According to information obtained by Proceso, Jose Manuel Diaz Burgos, 24 or 25 years, is cousin of Guzman Salazar, son of Emilio Diaz Guzman. And according to the version given by family, the sister of Jose Manuel, who managed to escape the group of kidnappers, with Esmeralda and other women, was the one who alerted the family about what it had happened early Monday.

According to information gathered, the fiance of Esmeralda was the one who was driving the Range Rover SUV 2016 with false registration, that the prosecution identified but not its owner.

Sources of information related to the federal government noted that at the Center for Intelligence and National Security (Cisen) had information that Ivan and Alfredo used to visit public places in areas heavily populated with a group of bodyguards, eight to ten people, they are surprised that they were caught so effectively where not only the perpetrators knew the place and time, but they also have been able to disable the group of bodyguards that usually accompanies the two sons of the Sinaloa capo, or knew that the group of bodyguards was not on duty that day.

According to information from government intelligence of Mexico, for many years Puerto Vallarta is considered as a plaza controlled by the Sinaloa Cartel.

A family member, who requested anonymity because the family preferred to remained silent, said that within the clan of the Guzman Loera it is believed that this incident is related to the attack on June 11 to the house of Consuelo Loera, the mother of El Chapo, in the hamlet of La Tuna in Badiraguato, Sinaloa.

On that occasion, Guzman Loera family told Proceso that behind the attack on La Tuna Alfredo Beltran Guzman, nephew of El Chapo, son of Alfredo Beltran Leyva was directly involved (Proceso 2069). Then government sources linked the former leader of the Cartel of Guadalajara, Rafael Caro Quintero, in that attack and the supposed beginning of a war against the Sinaloa Cartel.

Last July in an exclusive interview with Proceso, Caro Quintero said he was not in the drug business and he had no war with anyone (Proceso 2073). He added that he and El Chapo are friends for many years and when he was released in August 2013 by order of a court, the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel made a friendly visit and were on good terms.

"We are desperate ... they are looking for them in Nayarit," said the source consulted in the case of the six men kidnapped in Vallarta.

That morning, in La Leche, Esmeraldas bachelors party was not also ruined, but at the same time she lost her fiance and her cousin.

This article was translated from Proceso