Assassin hired by El Chapo's sons is himself executed by hitmen while eating tacos in Mexico

Publish date: 2024-08-05

The alleged boss of a squad of hitmen hired by El Chapo's sons has himself been gunned down by a gang of assassins while eating tacos.

Andrés Rubio, 48, was at a street taco stand when assassins shot him Monday night in San Felipe, La Opinión newspaper reported.

Rubio, also known 'El Gallo (The Rooster), was shot seven times in the face, chest and abdomen.

Red Cross paramedics found him alive, lying in the middle the street and rushed him to Comunitario Hospital, where he was declared dead shortly after 10:30pm local time.

The assailants fled in a vehicle, which was found abandoned in flames near a garbage dump site about 20 minutes after Rubio's death.

No arrests had been reported as of Thursday by the Baja California State Office of the Attorney General.

Andrés Rubio, who allegedly led a gang of assassins hired by four of El Chapo's son, was gunned down while he was having tacos at a street stand near the family home in Baja California, Mexico, on Monday

Andrés Rubio, who allegedly led a gang of assassins hired by four of El Chapo's son, was gunned down while he was having tacos at a street stand near the family home in Baja California, Mexico, on Monday

Authorities in San Felipe, a town in the Mexican state of Baja California, located a car that was reportedly used by the hit squad that gunned down the leader of a group of assassins linked to Los Chapitos, El Chapo's four sons, on Monday. No arrests had been reported as of Thursday

Authorities in San Felipe, a town in the Mexican state of Baja California, located a car that was reportedly used by the hit squad that gunned down the leader of a group of assassins linked to Los Chapitos, El Chapo's four sons, on Monday. No arrests had been reported as of Thursday

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According to La Opinión, Rubio led a gang of assassins that serves as the hired muscle for four of El Chapo's sons who are known as Los Chapitos - Joaquín Guzmán López, Ovidio Guzmán López, Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar and Jesús Alfredo Guzmán Salazar.

The siblings split control of the Sinaloa Cartel with their jailed father's old righthand man, Ismael 'El Mayo' Zambada. He helped co-found the transnational drug trafficking organization, has never been arrested and is wanted by the U.S., who is offering a $15 million reward for information leading to his arrest and/or conviction.

According to the Latin American and Caribbean investigative think tank Insight Crime, Ovidio Guzmán López, Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar and Jesús Alfredo Guzmán Salazar were just teenagers when they were brought into the cartel by El Chapo and El Mayo.

Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Ovidio Guzmán López

Iván Archivaldo Guzmán (left) and Ovidio Guzmán López (right), two of Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán's four sons who are known as 'Los Chapitos' and control half of the Sinaloa Cartel with fugitive drug lord Ismael 'El Mayo' Zambada

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

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

Joaquín Guzmán-López Jesús Guzmán and three of his brothers hold control of half of the Sinaloa Cartel

Joaquín Guzmán-López (left) and Jesús Guzmán (right) are two of El Chapo's four sons who are wanted by U.S. authorities 

Los Chapitos and El Mayo have remained at odds since 2016 following El Chapo's extradition to the United States. The notorious kingpin was convicted by a New York federal court in February 2019 and sentenced to life in prison five months later.

The U.S. Department of Treasury identified Ovidio Guzmán López, Joaquín Guzmán López and Ivan Archivaldo Guzmán as leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel on December 16, 2021.

The three men previously indicted on federal drug trafficking charges. 

The Department of State followed by offering $5 million rewards for any information that could help federal agents arrest for each of El Chapo's.

Ovidio Guzmán López was briefly detained in October 2019 when Mexican security forces raided his home in Culiacán, but President Andrés Manuel López Obrador ordered the military to release him after the cartel answered with a war-like assault.

The operative to execute an extradition request that had been requested by a court out of Washington, D.C., left 13 people dead.

'I ordered that operation be stopped and that this alleged criminal be released,' López Obrador went on to admit during a June 2020 press conference. 

'The decision was made when it was decided not to put the population at risk so that civilians were not affected because more than 200 people would lose their lives if we did not suspend the operation in Culiacán.' 

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