Jesús Alfredo Guzmán Salazar (born 17 May 1986) is a Mexican drug trafficker. He is the son of the imprisoned drug trafficker and former leader of the

Sinaloa Cartel The Sinaloa Cartel (, , after the native Sinaloa region), also known as the ''CDS'', the ''Guzmán-Loera Organization'', the ''Federation'', the ''Sinaloa Cartel'', or the Pacific Cartel, is a large, drug trafficking transnational organized cri ...

Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera (; born 4 April 1957), commonly known as "El Chapo", is a Mexican former drug lord and a former leader within the Sinaloa Cartel. Guzmán is believed to be responsible for the deaths of over 34,000 people, ...

. On 13 September 2018, he was included in the United States

Drug Enforcement Administration The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is a Federal law enforcement in the United States, United States federal law enforcement agency under the U.S. Department of Justice tasked with combating illicit Illegal drug trade, drug trafficking a ...

's top ten most wanted list.

Biography

Guzmán was born in 1986 in the

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

Zapopan Zapopan () is a city and municipality located in the Mexican state of Jalisco. Part of the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area, Zapopan is the largest city in the state. It's best known as the home of the Virgin of Zapopan, an image of the Virgin ...

, Jalisco. He is the son of María Alejandrina Salazar Hernández, Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán's first wife, with whom he also had his brother

Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar, also known by his alias "El Chapito" (English: 'Little Chapo'), is a Mexican drug lord, narcoterrorist, and current co-leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, along with Ismael Zambada Sicairos. According to U.S. gov ...

, "El Chapito". He is known by his alias "Alfredillo" and is said to be in control of the

, which his father also belonged to before he was captured by the police in 2016.

Kidnapping

On 15 August 2016, Guzmán was kidnapped by alleged members of the

Jalisco New Generation Cartel The Jalisco New Generation Cartel (, ), or CJNG, is a Mexican Organized crime, criminal syndicate, based in Jalisco and headed by Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes ("El Mencho"). The drug cartel, cartel has been characterized by extreme violence and pu ...

(CJNG), along with his brother

and four other people. The kidnapping occurred at one in the morning on Monday, 15 August, at the La Leche restaurant, located in one of the busiest areas of

Puerto Vallarta Puerto Vallarta ( or simply Vallarta) is a Mexican resort city near the Bahía de Banderas on the Pacific coast of the Mexico, Mexican state of Jalisco. Puerto Vallarta is the second largest urban agglomeration in the state after the Guadalajara ...

. On 22 August, relatives of Joaquín Guzmán Loera and sources from the

(DEA) confirmed that "El Chapo"'s sons, along with the other four kidnapped individuals, had been released.

References

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