Roberto Nájera Gutiérrez, alias “La Gallina” (The Hen), a well-known cattle rancher in 2016, was extradited on January 7, 2026, from the State Social Reintegration Center No. 14, known as “El Amate,” located in the municipality of Cintalapa, Chiapas, to the United States. He was extradited for coordinating a drug trafficking and money laundering network for the Sinaloa Cartel in Ecuador, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, and the United States, from December 2013 to March 2018.
According to the formal extradition request DGPI/4837/23, Nájera Gutiérrez, along with César Gastelum Serrano, another Sinaloa Cartel operative in Mexico and Central America extradited in November 2015, received cocaine in Honduras, which arrived by boat, and subsequently They coordinated the transport of drugs to the Mexico-Guatemala border, destined for Mexico City and the United States.
The man, originally from the municipality of Palenque, Chiapas, 48 years old, with black eyes and a height of 1.83 meters, who presented himself as a cattle rancher, maintained contacts with Colombian drug lords who supplied him with cocaine. Also nicknamed “Kung Fu Panda,” “Chendo,” or “Gordo,” Nájera Gutiérrez oversaw the collection of profits from the sale of cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamines in the United States.
It was in March 2015 that U.S. authorities, specifically special agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), began investigating him by intercepting his conversations using the personal identification number (PIN) on his Blackberry phone. “After selling the drugs, they collected the profits and used some of them to buy and maintain luxury homes, land, and vehicles in the United States, while their couriers transported some of the profits to members of the organization in Mexico,” the extradition document states.
