On The Hunt For 'El Guano': How 'El Chapo's Discreet Older Brother Fled

[Judi Lynn]

By Ivan 3/18/2023 08:08:00 PM



The last boss Guzman Loera escaped through a false door to a sharp cliff. The marines found his crucifix, his bible and his simple lifestyle.



A blue and white brick house. With two floors, skylight and a small cistern. With a black gate and a concrete ramp that leads to a garage where, at the back, there is a false door that leads to some hills with sharp cliffs where El Guano, the last great patriarch of the Guzmán Loera clan, would have escaped for the last time.



This is how one of the houses of El Chapo Guzmán's older brother was described by residents of the community of El Durazno, deep in Tamazula, Durango, to members of the Secretariat of the Navy. By air and land, the Armed Forces searched for the mysterious drug lord between February 23 and 24 with the objective of placing him in the hands of US authorities, who consider him the second most relevant person in the Sinaloa Cartel, only behind Ismael El Mayo Zambada.

The search for Guano was laborious throughout the operation. Stubborn, said one of the marines who participated in the attempted arrest and who spoke to MILENIO on condition of anonymity. From the foothills of the Sierra Madre Occidental, the agents collected information from neighbors in the Golden Triangle -sometimes false, sometimes fearful- and contrasted it with the information they had been given by the Attorney General's Office (FGR) to make their search more effective.

The information about the blue-and-white house coincided. So did that of a gray-walled construction with loopholes that was located by an Armed Forces helicopter gunship. But by the time the marines were able to reach those hideouts in El Durazno, El Guano seemed to have turned to dust.

More:
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2023/03/on-hunt-for-el-guano-how-el-chapos.html

(Who knew "El Chapo" had a brother? One would be more than enough!)