The US puts a price on the heads of "El Chapo" children.

The US government offers a total of $75 million in rewards for information leading to the capture or conviction of 10 high-ranking members of the Sinaloa Cartel, including Ovidio Guzmán López, aka El Ratón or El Ratón Nuevo; Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar, El Chapito; Jesús Alfredo Guzmán Salazar, Alfredillo, and Joaquín Guzmán López.

The four sons of Capo Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán Loera, a prisoner in a Colorado maximum security prison, were targeted by U.S. authorities, after yesterday the State Department announced bonuses of $5 million each, which together amount to $20 million.

Each is subject to federal prosecution for his involvement in illicit drug trafficking such as fentanyl, methamphetamine, heroin and cocaine, according to the State Department, headed by Antony Blinken.

At least since 2001, the U.S. government has hunted Joaquín Guzmán Loera after his escape from the Puente Grande federal prison. Since then, the State Department and the DEA set it as a priority target and in 2015, one year after escaping from El Altiplano prison, it offered a $5 million reward for it.

Ovidio Guzmán López, alias El Ratón or El Ratón Nuevo, is one of the sons of El Chapo Guzmán Loera, of whom little was known until in October 2019 he was arrested and then released in a failed operation of the Army and the National Guard.

Guzmán López is considered one of the main exporters of fentanyl and methamphetamine, both synthetic drugs, to the United States.

Meanwhile, Alfredillo has been on the list of 10 wanted fugitives by the Drug Control Administration (DEA) since 2018 for conspiracy to possess and attempt to distribute controlled substances, as well as conspiring to import and export controlled substances for distribution.

He was born in 1983 in Zapopan, Jalisco, and is one of Chapo Guzmán 's oldest children.

In the case of Capo Rafael Caro Quintero, alias El Narco de Narcos, who leads a faction of the Sinaloa Cartel, in dispute with Ismael El Mayo Zambada and Los Chapitos over control of the criminal organization, the DEA offers $20 million for information leading to his arrest, the highest for a Mexican drug trafficker.

The second biggest reward is the $15 million offered to locate Capo Ismael El Mayo Zambada, founder and senior leader of the Sinaloa Cartel.

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The State Department, through the DEA, tripled last September the reward for El Mayo Zambada, due to the leadership it assumed after the capture of Joaquín Guzmán.

Last November, U.S. authorities announced a $5 million reward for anyone who provides accurate data that will lead to the arrest or conviction of Aureliano Guzmán Loera, El Guano, noted for the trafficking of marijuana and fentanyl into U.S. territory.

There is also gratification to find the brothers Ruperto, José and Heriberto Salgueiro Nevarez, who together with El Guano are responsible for "more than 63% of the 96,779 drug overdose deaths in the United States between March 2020 and 2021.

"the Salgueiro-Nevarez brothers allegedly operate a faction of the Sinaloa Cartel known as SNO, which means Organization Salgueiro-Nevarez. Aureliano Guzmán Loera is the brother of the former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, Joaquín Guzmán Loera, "he says.

Strengthening actions

In publicizing the rewards for El Chapo's children, the State Department stated that the United States has suffered for years the worst drug epidemic in its history, driven by deaths from illicit heroin and fentanyl overdose and an increase in the availability of methamphetamine.

"Transnational criminal organizations are largely responsible for bringing these drugs and violence related to our communities," he said.

He indicated that to counter this threat to the American population, President Joe Biden has signed two new executive orders declaring a national emergency to address the opiate epidemic and another formally establishing the United States Council on Transnational Organized Crime (USCTOC).

He noted that the Council on Organized Crime will add the resources of the State Department and five other key departments and agencies to combat transnational organized crime more effectively, "just as we are modernizing and expanding our capacity to attack drug trafficking organizations, their enablers and financial facilitators."