Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar

Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman is believed to have fathered 12 or 13 children. Two of them, Ovidio Guzmán Lopez and Joaquin Guzmán Lopez, are currently caged in the United States. They were the most visible of the children involved in the Sinaloa Cartel's business. By 2019, after El Chapo's extradition and conviction in the U.S., Iván and his brothers took over much of the operations of the Sinaloa Cartel. Experts say Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar, one of the two sons El Chapo had with first wife María Alejandrina Salazar Hernández, is de-facto leader.

The new generation focused on the production and distribution of meth and fentanyl. Los Chapitos garnered a reputation for violence. "Culiacanazo" was a military operation in 2019 that captured Ovidio Guzmán López. In response, the cartel unleashed an army in Culiacán, causing violence that forced the government to release Ovidio. Iván's leadership has been marked by a brutal approach to maintaining control with reliance on sicarios for his expansion of the cartel's drug trafficking operations. Iván Archivaldo turned 41 years old this August.