The United States offers a $ 5 million reward for the children of 'El Chapo' Guzmán

The State Department, led by Secretary Anthony Blinken, announced Wednesday that there will be four rewards of up to $ 5 million each for information leading to the arrest (or sentence) of four children of Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán.

They are Ovidio Guzmán López, Ivan Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar, Jesús Alfredo Guzmán Salazar and Joaquín Guzmán López, sons of the former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel.

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The US government

and subsequent life sentence in the United States in February 2019. Since then, he has been held in the Florence Super Maximum Security Prison, in Colorado.

Also in February 2019, the Department of Justice filed multiple charges related to drug trafficking against Joaquín Guzmán López and Ovidio Guzmán López.

Ovidio Guzmán López during his brief detention by the Mexican military in Culiacán, Sinaloa, on October 17, 2019.

The rewards were announced as part of a series of executive actions by the Biden Administration to curb the opioid epidemic in the United States and combat transnational drug trafficking, according to the press release.

In addition, they occur after the sentence to three years in prison for

wife

, Emma Coronel Aispuro, who pleaded guilty to having conspired with her husband in his criminal organization.

The US government also offered

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Fujing Zheng and Guanghua Zheng.

The measures, the statement said, complement the Treasury Department's actions to freeze the assets in the United States of 25 individuals related to drug trafficking and their chemical precursors.

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With these measures, the Government seeks to disrupt the supply chain and global financial networks that sustain the trade in opioids and synthetic drugs.

In the last year, the national health crisis over the use of illegal substances for the first time in history caused more than 100,000 overdose deaths, mainly from fentanyl.

However, critics of the prohibitionist policy point out that keeping the production, commercialization and consumption of drugs illegal increases the danger faced by users of these substances, as well as the violence suffered by marginalized communities.

Bob Anderson, chief of the CDC's division of mortality statistics, has explained that one of the reasons why the deaths related to fentanyl have increased is due to the mixture of drugs.

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"They are killing people in combination, fentanyl with another drug like methamphetamine or cocaine," he

said in an interview with our sister network NBC News last month.

In an illegal market, critics of the prohibitionist policy argue, it is impossible for users to know what they are consuming.

Because with drugs as potent as fentanyl, a tiny difference in microgramming can lead to death from overdose.

Anyone who has relevant information about the four children mentioned here of Joaquín Guzmán Loera can contact the authorities at the number 16195406912, through WhatsApp, Telegram or Signal.