Mexico’s new cartel queen comes from trafficking royalty. Not only is she the daughter-in-law of perhaps the most infamous drug lord of recent years, her father was a high-ranking Sinaloa enforcer until he was tortured and murdered.
Adriana Meza Torres, believed to be in her early 30s, is said to have established herself as a queenpin of Los Chapitos, a faction of the deadly Sinaloa cartel. Her husband, Ovidio Guzmán López, a son of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán, was captured in a gunfight this month that claimed the lives of 29 people, ten of them Mexican troops.
Meza Torres is flaunting her newfound power, calling herself “boss’s wife” on social media and demonstrating her wealth in a series of flashy posts and videos on sites such as TikTok. Her apparent elevation to the role has been long in the making.
