Deep in the dusty, arid mountains of Sinaloa, northwest Mexico, lies the tiny village of La Tuna, the humble birthplace of billionaire drug baron Joaquín Guzmán, better-known as El Chapo ; once the lynchpin of the powerful Sinaloa Cartel, now rotting in an American supermax prison .

In his absence, things are falling apart. The Sinaloa Cartel is now in a state of civil war between his sons, the Chapitos (“little Chapos”) and another faction loyal to his former business partner, El Mayo.

Recently, footage on social media purportedly showed a drone piloted by the rival Gulf Cartel dropping a bomb on Chapo’s mother’s house in La Tuna. New Feature

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A source within the Sinaloa Cartel played down the attack. “That event in La Tuna

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