El Chapo’s sons fed enemies to tigers and used hot chiles for torture

El Chapo’s sons fed enemies to tigers and used hot chiles for torture.

One of the ninis, as cited in the indictment, used a corkscrew to rip out a Mexican federal law enforcement officer’s muscle, then “poured hot chiles in his open wounds and nose.”

After that, Ivan is said to have shot the officer dead.

That the Chapitos kill with impunity is a message that’s extended well beyond the ranch. They helped lead the most powerful element of the Sinaloa cartel and were the most important traffickers of fentanyl into the US. The powerful synthetic opioid was responsible for the “majority” of the 107,345 lethal overdoses between August 2021 and August 2021, according to an indictment filed in New York.

According to the indictment from the Southern District of New York, captives — including rival traffickers and officials who threatened the cartel’s operations — were taken to a ranch belonging to Ivan Salazar, where they would be tortured. The gang would test their drugs on captives and coax information out of them before ultimately killing them. Rivals of the cartel and government officials who refused to cooperate would be fed dead or alive to tigers belonging to the Salazar brothers that they kept at their ranch as pets. “You can go walking across the street in the Sinaloa and there are black bags with bodies left on the street,” said the source. “You go to school with your son in the morning, you both see these bags and you both know there are bodies in them. Nobody says anything. Everyone knows what they mean. The message that those bags send is, ‘Don’t cause trouble for us or this will happen to you.’”

Through a process called “cleaning,” as described in the indictment, Los Chapitos and their ninis would bring violence to areas of Mexico where they wanted to take over control of the drug trade.