After the serious accusations made by the United States against the sons of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera in mid-April 2023, they are said to have retreated in their actions and kept a low profile for a while.

Two months ago, the US justice charged the children of Guzmán Loera with trafficking in fentanyl.

To the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Sinaloa Cartel and “Los Chapitos” are primarily responsible for the fentanyl “flooding” the United States.

Given the allegations, the children of “Chapo” sent a letter trying to distance themselves from what the US authorities said. It is believed that they would then have ordered the production of fentanyl stopped and its shipment to US soil halted, Prensa Libre published on Thursday, June 15, 2023.

That space they have decided to “give up” has a new actor: the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG)

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Los Chapitos in alleged temporary decision on fentanyl

According to the aforementioned medium, the decision of “Los Chapitos” is known thanks to Mike Vigil, a former DEA agent.

Vigil believes stopping the “production of (fentanyl) is real, although it could be a short-term strategy.

“If it is true, I think it will be temporary and they will wait and see how the government responds because we also do not believe that they will stop producing fentanyl and forget about the market they have in the United States,” said the former DEA agent.

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The new poster, the one with the four letters

This moment would be exploited by the men of the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel, led by Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, whom they call “El Mencho”.

That organization – the one with the four letters, CJNG – is also being monitored by US authorities.

Prensa Libre highlighted some statements made ten days ago by Brian E. Nelson, Undersecretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence.

According to Nelson, “The CJNG relies on a network of criminal activity that ultimately bolsters its ability to smuggle fentanyl and other deadly drugs into the United States.”

It’s a matter of supposedly taking advantage of the moment the CJNG needs, while Los Chapitos find a way to get away from the DEA radar.

Fentanyl, the US authorities described in April, is a synthetic opioid that is up to 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine.

If they keep their purpose, Prensa Libre said, the CJNG should support production or continue at its current pace to establish itself “as the leading criminal organization in the fentanyl trade and surpass ‘Los Chapitos’.”

The United States will not give in to the fight against the trade in this powerful drug and has located the two major organizations behind the shady trade: the Sinaloa cartels and the CJNG.

The United States is suffering from a horrific fentanyl epidemic, which killed more than 100,000 Americans last year and is caused by Mexican cartels.

Merrick Garland, American attorney

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Sanctions in the CJNG environment

Actions against the CJNG began. On June 6, Infobae reported, it was learned that “the U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned three people and a Mexican company for providing support to the CJNG, a criminal organization that traffics fentanyl and other synthetic drugs.”

The measure fell on two godsons of “El Mencho”, Adrián Alonso and Javier Guerrero Covarrubias, identified as “experienced violent members of the CJNG,” the outlet added.

Quoted in EFE, in March 2023, United States Attorney General Merrick Garland made clear the thickness of the glass with which they look at the manufacturers and distributors of fentanyl: “The drug traffickers who manufacture and distribute these pills to the United States States They are the most horrible people imaginable.”