U.S. government releases updated photo of one El Chapo's three wanted sons

The United States government has released a new wanted poster for one of Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán's sons who is sought on drug trafficking charges

The poster included an updated snapshot of Joaquín 'El Chapito' Guzmán-López, 35, was released by the Department of State on Thursday along with a $5million reward for information leading to his arrest. 

According to Borderlandbeat.com, the U.S. government had erroneously used a photograph of El Chapo's other César Guzmán, who reportedly is not involved in the narcotics business.

Four of El Chapo's sons are either under indictment or under investigation by federal agents.  They include Joaquín, Ovidio Guzmán-López, Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar and Jesús Alfredo Guzmán Salazar. 

Last month, Homeland Security offered three $5 million bounties for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction for Joaquín's three brothers.   

The United States on Thursday released an updated photo of Joaquín 'El Chapito' Guzmán-López, the son of Joaquín 'El Chapo, Guzmán. U.S. authorities are offering a $5 million reward to anyone who can provide information for his arrest and/or conviction

Left is the new photo released by the U.S. government of Joaquín 'El Chapito' Guzmán-López. In December 2021, the Department of State mistakenly used a photo of his other brother César Guzmán when the announced four $5 million rewards for the capture of him and his three other brothers: Ovidio Guzmán-López, Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar and Jesús Alfredo Guzmán Salazar

With Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán serving a life sentence in the United States, his four sons have assumed control of the transnational drug trafficking organization

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El Chapito was indicted with his brother Ovidio Guzmán López on April 2, 2018 and each charged with conspiring to distribute more than 5 kilograms of cocaine, 500 grams of methamphetamine, and 1,000 kilograms of marijuana.

All four brothers have taken a bigger role in the Sinaloa Cartel after El Chapo was arrested in Mexico and extradited to the U.S., where he is now serving a life sentence.

U.S. federal authorities say both Joaquín Guzmán-López and Ovidio Guzmán-López carry 'high-level command and control roles' in their Guzmán-López Transnational Criminal Organization, which operates under the umbrella of the drug cartel empire their jailed father co-founded.

Their uncle Aureliano 'El Guano' Guzmán and co-founder Ismael 'El Mayo' Zambada also share control of the organization.

The U.S. Department of State announced in December $5 million rewards for information leading to the arrest of Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán's four sons, including Iván Archivaldo Guzmán (left) and Ovidio Guzmán López (right)

Jesús Guzmán is one of El Chapo's four children who have taken over control of the Sinaloa Cartel

El Chapito got heavily involved in the international drug trade business following the murder of their brother, Edgar Guzmán-López, in 2008.

El Chapito and Ovidio Guzmán López, who was nearly captured and extradited to the United States in October 2019, reportedly took on large profits from the sale of drugs and used their proceeds by investing it into the purchase of marijuana in Mexico and cocaine in Colombia.

The U.S. government said the duo 'also began purchasing large amounts of ephedrine from Argentina and arranged for the smuggling of the product into Mexico as they began to experiment with methamphetamine production.'

Federal investigators say that El Chapito and his brother manage about 11 laboratories in their home state of Sinaloa that produce between 3,000 to 5,000 pounds of methamphetamine per month. In turn, the drug is sold at wholesale prices to other members of the translational cartel and to their distributors in the United States and Canada.

Despite the million dollar rewards, Mexico President André Manuel López cautioned in December that the United Stats government that its federal agents won't simply be able to step walk on Mexican soil and apprehend El Chapo's sons.

'If they are in national territory, it is up to the national authorities to stop it, foreign agencies are not allowed to do so,' López Obrador said during a press conference Thursday.

Secretary of State Anthony J. Blinken said last month that the government hopes that the rewards could 'enhance our efforts to disrupt and deter transnational criminal activity globally.'  

'When transnational criminal organizations engage in drug and firearms trafficking, human trafficking, migrant smuggling, cybercrime, and money laundering, among other illicit activities, they threaten global public health, safety, and U.S. national security, while facilitating corruption that undermines the stability and security of partner nations,' he said.

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