Cartel de Sinaloa: "Trump Will Never Win This Fight..."

“Trump will never win the fight”: what 'El Chapito' said following other cartel leaders interviewed by the media

The most wanted Mexican narcos left their lairs to answer a rosary of questions asked by journalists, including actors. Although some only allowed notes to be taken, others accepted to be videotaped. A son of ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán spoke with a Belgian magazine a year ago.

There is a saying that warns: a known boss is a dead boss. But some leaders of Mexican cartels have made exceptions in recent years to “confess” to the media. They have shown their faces trying to legitimize the activities of their organizations, to complain about the "betrayals" from the government, to implore them to stop persecuting them and also while seeking notoriety.

One of those who recently agreed to be interviewed is Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar, one of the sons of Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán, former head of the Sinaloa cartel. ‘El Chapito’ and his three brothers, including Ovidio Guzmán López, remained at the head of the faction of the cartel inherited from their father, who since July is serving a life sentence in the safest federal prison in the United States.

Guzmán Salazar, on the list of the most wanted drug traffickers by the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), answered the questions of a collaborator from the Belgian magazine Knack, who published the report in March 2018. The 39-year-old boss talked about an alleged betrayal that the Mexican government made to his father, he distanced himself away from the death of six soldiers and said he is not hungry for power.

“My father had placed his trust in the hands of the Mexican government and they handed him over to the Americans as a trophy. I will never forgive them for that, ”he told the same media and described politicians as“ the most legitimate mafia, ”because they only use their positions for their own benefit.

“I don't have the ambition to be important and I don't feel at all important. If I went and had a lot of power, would I have to hide constantly? ”Asked the son of El Chapo’, who took the opportunity to distance himself from an attack in which six soldiers died in 2016.

“In the last few days, many people in my organization have been killed by these accusations. I find it unfair. The government knows I didn't do that, ”said one of the youngest chiefs of the cartel.

Against him weighs an accusation brought forth in a San Diego court. They implicated him in a current operation that, in complicity with more than 100 people, has imported huge shipments of drugs into California. But this fugitive who does not hesitate to show his eccentric lifestyle on social networks said he is not willing to have his arm twisted.

Donald Trump will never win the fight against us. We are much stronger than him. If the Americans began to attack the cartels in their own country, of course they will do everything possible not to shoot themselves in their foot. They focus on Latin America to divert attention, ”said Guzmán Salazar.

‘El Chapo’ in Rolling Stone magazine

"The day I cease to exist will not reduce drug trafficking, that is false. Drug trafficking is already a culture that comes from ancestors not only in Mexico, this is worldwide," El Chapo Guzmán said in his nasal voice, who was then the most wanted criminal in the world.

From somewhere in the mountains in the so-called Golden Triangle, his territory, ‘El Chapo’ reflected in front of a boy who threw questions at him holding a cell phone. He responded with his simple speech, typical of the Sinaloa ranchers. This video recording published by Rolling Stone magazine happened shortly before he was recaptured for the third time in January 2016.

It was 17 minutes in which Guzmán talked about his early years selling oranges in his hometown of La Tuna, in Sinaloa; his relationship with his family who are also involved in drug smuggling; his days being a “happy” fugitive after escaping from a maximum security prison in 2015; and about his prolific business that for four years placed him among the richest in the world

Translated and posted by Sol Prendido for Borderland Beat Source