An assassin hired by El Chapo’s sons is himself killed by hitmen while enjoying tacos in Mexico

The alleged boss of a group of hitmen hired by El Chapo’s sons has himself been gunned down by a gang of assassins while enjoying tacos.

La Opinión newspaper reported, that Andrés Rubio, 48, was at a street taco stand when assassins shot him Monday night in San Felipe.

Rubio, who is commonly known as ‘As El Gallo (The Rooster), was shot seven times in the face, chest, and abdomen.

Red Cross paramedics found him alive, lying in the middle of the street, and hurried him to Comunitario Hospital, where he was declared dead shortly after 10:30 pm local time.

The assailants escaped in a vehicle, which was found uncontrolled in flames near a garbage dump site about 20 minutes after Rubio’s death.

No arrests had been informed as of Thursday by the Baja California State Office of the Attorney General.

According to La Opinión, Rubio led a gang of assassins that serves as the hired muscle for four of El Chapo’s sons who are known as Los Chapitos – Joaquín Guzmán López, Ovidio Guzmán López, Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar and Jesús Alfredo Guzmán Salazar.

The siblings split control of the Sinaloa Cartel with their jailed father’s old right-hand man, Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada. He helped co-found the global drug trafficking organization, has never been detained, and is wanted by the U.S., which is offering a $15 million reward for information leading to his arrest and/or conviction.

According to the Latin American and Caribbean investigative think tank Insight Crime, Ovidio Guzmán López, Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar and Jesús Alfredo Guzmán Salazar were just teenagers when they wer Los Chapitos and El Mayo have remained at odds since 2016 following El Chapo’s extradition to the United States. The notorious kingpin was convicted by a New York federal court in February 2019 and sentenced to life in prison five months later.

The U.S. Department of Treasury identified Ovidio Guzmán López, Joaquín Guzmán López and Ivan Archivaldo Guzmán as leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel on December 16, 2021.

The three were previously indicted on federal drug trafficking charges. The Department of State followed by offering $5 million rewards for any information that could help federal agents arrest each of El Chapo.

Ovidio Guzmán López was briefly detained in October 2019 when Mexican security forces raided his home in Culiacán, but President Andrés Manuel López Obrador ordered the military to release him after the cartel answered with a war-like assault.

The operative to execute an expulsion request that had been requested by a court out of Washington, D.C., left 13 people dead.

‘I ordered that operation be stopped and that this alleged criminal be released,’ López Obrador went on to admit during a June 2020 press conference.

‘The decision was made when it was decided not to put the population at risk so that civilians were not affected because more than 200 people would lose their lives if we did not suspend the operation in Culiacán.’e brought into the cartel by El Chapo and El Mayo.