What is the function of El Guano in the Sinaloa Cartel

The name of Aureliano Guzman Loeraa.k.a guanoolder brother of Chapo, was again revealed this weekend because it was assumed that he had been detained by elements of the Mexican army. According to the American authorities, this drug trafficker plays a fundamental role in the trafficking of heroin, fentanyl, methamphetamine and cocaine from the Sinaloa Cartel to UNITED STATES.

In November 2021, the US State Department offered a reward of up to $5 million for information leading to the arrest of Aureliano Guzmán, whom they reported for operating in the states of Chihuahua and Sinaloa.

“One of the indictments alleges trafficking in fentanyl, which is responsible for more than 63% of the 96,779 drug overdose deaths in the United States. UNITED STATES between March 2020 and 2021″, underlined the justice department it is a statement.

After capture and extradition to the UNITED STATES of Joaquin Chapo GuzmanAureliano became one of the leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel with Ishmael May zambada there little boysfractions with which it maintains a strong territorial dispute.

According to the journalist Miguel Angel Vegawho was able to meet the drug trafficker in the town of La Tuna, in the municipality of Badiraguato, where the leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel, guano He is a “very analytical, distrustful and frighteningly cold” person.

Aureliano Guzman Loera was made responsible for criminal operations in the Sierra de Sinaloa after his sibling’s final takeover in 2016. According to Angel Vega, guano I already knew that the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) was on his heels.

El Chapo’s brother also coordinates security for the Golden Triangle, an area that concentrates the largest production of marijuana and poppy in Mexico by the Sinaloa Cartel.

Miguel Angel Vegawho was the liaison officer for foreign correspondents seeking to reach the bowels of the Sinaloa Cartelreported that the True Lord of the Sierra, as we also know Guano, he is surrounded by 30 armed men and is accused of having killed his half-brother, Ernesto Guzman Hidalgosuspected of leaking information that led to the second capture of Chapo.

Aureliano is three years older than El Chapo, we can therefore deduce that he was born in 1964 and would be 56 years old. He started out in the marijuana business, but when Joaquín was first imprisoned in 1994, he managed to grow and make a name for himself within the Pacific Cartel.

In 2016, Aureliano rose to fame when a fierce manhunt broke out for him after he attacked a military convoy with grenades carrying Julio Oscar Ortiz Vega, The Kevin, one of his close associates. In the attack, five soldiers died and 10 others were injured, but El Guano achieved his objective and freed the hitman.

There Sinaloa Public Security Secretary reported that he had arrested three members of the Sinaloa Cartel of the faction of Aureliano Guzman Loeraa.k.a guanoafter a strong operation in the mountainous area of ​​Badiraguato.

According to the local agency, the men tried to flee in a truck when they saw the presence of military elements, but an army helicopter managed to descend and arrest them. The subjects were carrying a large load: seven automatic weapons, a Barrett-50 caliber rifle, grenade launcher attachments, stored magazines, ammunition, helmets, tactical vests and grenades, as well as suspected marijuana.

This operation is probably linked to the strong mobilization that took place on the afternoon of Friday February 24 by the armed forces in the mountainous area of tamazula, Durango. Unofficial versions indicated that he had been captured with the brother of Joaquin Chapo Guzman, but this information has never been confirmed by the federal authorities.