Browsing: Los Chapitos

After the Lambo shooting, the facts didn’t change—the story did. Within hours, competing narratives flooded social media, each designed to redirect blame and control perception. In Mexico’s drug war, misinformation isn’t accidental. It’s a tool, deployed fast, loud, and without regard for truth.

I took my sunglasses off before I shook his hand. Eye contact separates journalists from people who tweet news. I was sitting with some of the most wanted men in Mexico and the United States, surrounded by forty heavily armed sicarios. One wrong expression and I wouldn’t have walked away. This wasn’t myth or rumor. This was real life.

On a clear Sinaloa hillside, masked men stand calm and unhurried, rifles resting easy as the camera rolls. The video, signed by Churras Calabazas of Los Chapitos, uses the setting as its opening statement—a quiet, controlled insult aimed directly at Chapo Isidro, delivered before a single word is spoken.

One flimsy FGR letter turned a Sinaloa kingpin’s safe house into a target. My sources say a senior woman inside Durango’s Fiscalía quietly handed over the address of la casa de los Remedios, home turf of Los Cabrera, just as their Mayo-aligned faction drifted from protected asset to collateral in the war with the Chapitos–CJNG FEU bloc.

Camilo Ochoa, “El Alucín,” a narco influencer, was shot dead in a Temixco bathroom. The door shows a short burst at the lock; finishing shots followed. Earlier in 2025, a 24-face flyer by Mayito Flaco marked him. Months of tailing, white Chevy, sunglasses for mockery—then silence. The war moved on.