Updated 02:48 AM EDT, Sat, May 04, 2024

'El Chapo' Recapture Might Spark Bloody Gang War?

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Drug cartel lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was recaptured, which has generated worldwide interest. The drug lord's arrest is feared to spark a bloody internal battle for power involving the drug world's most powerful woman.

According to a report with The Mirror, the notorious leader of the feared Sinaloa drug cartel in Mexico might be extradited to the United States, following charges of drug trafficking. Experts fear now that "El Chapo" is out of the picture, other drug gangs might be out for a bloody battle for supremacy.

One such drug lord who seeks to take "El Chapo's" crown is the drug underworld's most powerful and ruthless woman, Claudia Ochoa Felix. This alleged leader of the ruthless Los Antrax has her own Instagram account, where she is known by her followers as "La Emperatriz de los Antrax."

Felix, who hails from Culiacan, Mexico, is also known as the "Kim Kardashian of organized crime." She is known to post countless selfies on her Instagram, and has even posted a picture of her touting her own customized pink AK-47.

With "El Chapo" behind bars, the question remains whether or not the drug kingpin will be extradited to the US. Should Guzman stay in Mexico, the Sinaloa Cartel will still remain on top, with the jailed leader still running things, albeit "behind the scenes."

It is believed that Guzman's second-in-command, Ismael Zambada García, or "El Mayo," will take the lead. It now falls to Zambada to keep up the gang's ranking as the world's largest and most feared.

Newsweek reports that over the course of the past few years, Mexican authorities have captured or killed almost all of Mexico's leading drug lords.

Drug policy expert and Mexico crime author Nathan Jones suspects that Guzman's capture and possible extradition could significantly impact Sinaloa cartel's internal operations, and that Guzman could possibly lose control over his proxies.

Jones, however, said that this illustration was "a worst case scenario."

Felix allegedly took the reins after Los Antrax and her boyfriend, Jose Rodrigo Arechiga Gamboa, were arrested.

The femme fatale would constantly take to her social media, posing in stilettos next to masked men, carrying a deadly assault M16 rifle. Felix was quick to delete any evidence of her being involved with the gang once word got out of her supposed rise to power.

The curvy mother-of-three continues to deny that she is "La Emperatriz de los Antrax."

Los Zeta is another extremely violent cartel who pose a danger to Mexico now that Guzman is behind bars. Reports say that the drug cartel might start a war with Sinaloa.

With most of "El Mayo's" sons being extradited or arrested, Sinaloa's second stands alone. Other drug gangs might take this as a sign of weakness, and target the drug cartel's businesses, territories and assets.

"Instead...it might have created more violent fragmented networks that increase overall levels of violence." said Jones of Mexico's future, now that "El Chapo" has been arrested.

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