Two high-ranking commanders from Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel have been conducting twisted human experiments using one of the world's deadliest drugs.
The revelations come after US authorities passed indictments against Los Chapitos – the sons of infamous Sinaloa Cartel boss Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán – and other members of the gang responsible for fentanyl flooding into the States.
Among those named are Jorge Humberto Figueroa Benítez, known as El 27, and Néstor Isidro Pérez Salas, known as El Nini. US authorities are offering $1million and $3million respectively for information leading to their capture. El 27 is thought to be in charge of security for El Nini, who controls an armed wing of the cartel. Both are heavily involved in Los Chapitos' trafficking activities.
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An indictment from the Southern District of New York describes how both men used unwilling human beings as test subjects for their fentanyl, despite the fact "the cartel possesses the technical capability" to test its drugs in a laboratory.
The document describes how they experimented on one woman they were "supposed to shoot", injecting her "repeatedly with a lower potency of fentanyl until she ultimately overdosed and died". They also tested fentanyl on "individuals who were tied down".
The indictment also states that "three cooks in a fentanyl lab that they controlled died after sampling the product". According to El Diario Del Narco, El 27 is said to have boasted about this in relation to the strength of the fentanyl in a meeting that took place on June 22, 2022.
Los Chapitos have now prohibited their underlings from producing fentanyl following the indictments and arrest of El Chapo's son Ovidio Guzmán in January (who is now in US custody). It recently emerged that they were killing their own dealers for failing to comply with this ban.
The remaining sons – Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar, Jesús Alfredo Guzmán Salazar and Joaquín Guzmán López – released a statement following Ovidio's arrest, claiming they had nothing to do fentanyl entering the US.
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