The head of the SSPC, Omar García Harfuch, stated that, thanks to the work of the State Security Cabinet, with the support of the Armed Forces, Los Chapos and Los Mayos have seen their criminal capabilities diminished since October 2024.
“Criminal organizations have been weakened. At the beginning of the conflict, we saw convoys of several trucks in Culiacán. Today, we have no records of this. They are becoming less frequent. There were even months with zero roadblocks, as at the beginning.
“This doesn’t mean the situation is resolved. What we are saying is that these criminal groups are not the same; they don’t have the same firepower,” he explained.
He also highlighted that the heirs of the Sinaloa Cartel, brothers Iván Archivaldo and Jesús Alfredo Guzmán Salazar, sons of El Chapo Guzmán, as well as Ismael Zambada The hitmen, son of El Mayo Zambada, are priority targets of the Mexican government. All three have an arrest warrant and an extradition request to the US.
“All three have arrest warrants and a warrant for their arrest, and we are working to locate and search for them,” he said.
García Harfuch led a conference held at Military Air Base No. 10 in Sinaloa, which was attended by the Secretaries of Defense, General Ricardo Trevilla Trejo, and of the Navy, Admiral Raymundo Pedro Morales Ángeles.
Harfuch blamed members of the Los Chapos and Los Mayos factions for the violence in the state over the past 10 months and assured that they are working to restore peace to the people of Sinaloa.
“This situation that began in Sinaloa, caused by two criminal groups that knew each other, is precisely what these operations and investigations carried out daily by the security cabinet are for.” “We must reverse what these same criminals are causing,” he said.
Also present at the conference were the commander of the National Guard, General Hernán Cortés Hernández; the commander of the Third Military Region, General Guillermo Briseño; and the Secretary of Public Security of Sinaloa, Óscar Rentería.
