It’s been reported that El Chapo’s sons are enforcing lockdown in Mexico by threatening people with grim consequences amidst the COIVD-19 breakout.
According to a report by Yucatan times, El Chapo’s sons, known as Los Chapitos, have been issuing threats that they would “sanction” anyone antagonizing the 10 pm curfew.
They also claim that their henchmen are on the streets to find people ignoring the curfew to torture them.
There are a number of videos about this “law enforcement” by drug traffickers circulating on social media that show people looking for curfew breakers in the Mexican city of Culiacan.
In one video, a man can be heard warning that he’d punish people with severe tortures, or would “arrest” them or impose “fines” on them.
The sons of El Chapo Guzman, Jesús Alfredo and Iván Archivaldo, are now running their dad’s crime syndicate, the Sinaloa Cartel, after his arrest that led to his life-long imprisonment in the US.
In one of the recent videos of Los Chapitos enforcing the curfew, a man said: “After ten o’clock at night, all the people must be inside their homes due to the coronavirus, otherwise they will be punished, these are orders from above [from Los Chapitos]. This is no game, we’re not playing.”
Another man said in another video: “Anybody caught after 10 o’clock, if not an essential worker, will be ‘lifted’ for two days and face boarding, and will have to pay a fine.”
A video even shows a wooden plank with the word COVID-19 written on it, probably prepared to torture those ignoring the curfew.
However, members of the Sinaloa Cartel have made it clear that they are not violent torturers and have made exceptions for people who have to go out of their houses for necessary tasks.
El Chapo was captured from Mexico by a joint effort of DEA and Mexican authorities in 2016 and was extradited to the US in 2017. He is now serving his life sentence in ADX Florence.
Since El Chapo’s arrest, Culiacan has faced the worst violence in the hands of his sons.
Corona is not the only problem Mexico is facing as the number of homicide cases has been on a rise since El Chapo has been arrested.
Mexico has seen its deadliest day this April, with the number of murders in one day totaling up to 105.
President of the Republic of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, said in a briefing last month: “We’re addressing the issue of the coronavirus, but unfortunately we continue to have problems with homicides.”
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