
Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is believed to have between 12 or 13 children. Two of them, Ovidio Guzmán Lopez and Joaquin Guzmán Lopez, are currently in custody of the United States. They were the most visible of the children involved in the Sinaloa Cartel's businesses.
According to experts in Mexico's organized crime, the emerging leader of both the faction Los Chapitos (Guzman's sons), and the Sinaloa Cartel as a whole is Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar, one of the two sons El Chapo had with María Alejandrina Salazar Hernández, his first wife. He is also considered one of the cruelest.