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Mexico's information main confirmed Tuesday that 17 household members of cartel leaders crossed into the U.S. past week arsenic portion of a woody betwixt a lad of the erstwhile caput of the Sinaloa Cartel and the Trump administration.
Mexican Security Secretary Omar García Harfuch confirmed a study by autarkic writer Luis Chaparro that household members of Ovidio Guzman Lopez, who was extradited to the United States successful 2023, had entered the U.S.
Guzmán Lopez is 1 of the brothers near moving a faction of the Sinaloa Cartel aft notorious capo Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán was imprisoned successful the U.S. Video showed the household members walking crossed the borderline from Tijuana with their suitcases to waiting U.S. agents.
Rumors had circulated past week that the younger Guzmán would plead blameworthy to debar proceedings for respective cause trafficking charges successful the U.S. aft being extradited successful 2023. Mexican information forces captured Guzmán López, alias "the Mouse," successful January 2023 successful Culiacán, superior of Sinaloa state.
This framework drawback from video, provided by the Mexican government, shows Ovidio Guzman Lopez being detained successful Culiacan, Mexico, Oct. 17, 2019.
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García Harfuch confirmed the household members' crossing successful a vigor interrogation and said it was wide to Mexican authorities that they were doing truthful aft negotiations betwixt Guzmán López and the U.S. government.
He believed that was the lawsuit due to the fact that the erstwhile cartel boss, whose lawyer said successful January helium had entered negotiations with U.S. authorities, had been pointing fingers astatine members of different transgression organizations apt arsenic portion of a practice agreement.
"It is evident that his household is going to the U.S. due to the fact that of a dialog oregon an connection that the Department of Justice is giving him," Garcia Harfuch said.
He said that nary of the household members were being pursued by Mexican authorities and that the authorities of U.S. President Donald Trump "has to stock information" with Mexican prosecutors, thing it has not yet done.
The confirmation by García Harfuch comes the aforesaid time that the U.S. Attorney General's Office announced it was charging a fig of apical cartel leaders with "narcoterrorism" for the archetypal clip since the Trump medication declared a fig of cartels arsenic overseas violent organizations.
While prosecutors declined to remark connected the video of the family, U.S. Attorney Adam Gordon for the Southern District of California and different officials sent a informing to cartel members, repeatedly citing the Sinaloa Cartel by name.
"Let maine beryllium direct, to the leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel, you are nary longer the hunters, you are the hunted. You volition beryllium betrayed by your friends, you volition beryllium hounded by your enemies, and you volition yet find yourself and your look present successful a courtroom successful the Southern District of California," Gordon said.
Also connected Tuesday, U.S. officials unveiled an indictment against 2 alleged Sinaloa Cartel leaders connected narco-terrorism charges -- including a father and son who prosecutors accidental ran 1 of the largest and astir blase fentanyl accumulation networks.
EL Chapo's sons
The U.S. accuses El Chapo's sons — known arsenic the Chapitos — of taking implicit the Sinaloa cartel aft the seizure of their father. The cartel is 1 of six Mexican cause trafficking groups designated violent organizations by U.S. President Donald Trump.
According to a 2023 indictment by the U.S. Justice Department, the Chapitos and their cartel associates utilized corkscrews, electrocution and blistery chiles to torture their rivals while immoderate of their victims were "fed dormant oregon live to tigers."
Ovidio Guzman is accused of conspiring to vessel cocaine, fentanyl, heroin, methamphetamine and marijuana into the United States.
Another son, Joaquin Guzman Lopez, was arrested aft arriving successful the United States past July successful a backstage level with cartel co-founder Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, who claimed helium had been kidnapped.
The arrests sparked cartel infighting that has near much than 1,200 radical dormant and 1,400 missing successful Sinaloa state, located successful northwestern Mexico.
El Chapo, the Sinaloa cartel's founder, is serving a beingness condemnation successful a maximum information situation successful Colorado aft being convicted successful 2019 on charges including cause trafficking, wealth laundering and weapons-related offenses.
In 2023, El Chapo sent an "SOS" message to Mexico's president, alleging that helium has been subjected to "psychological torment" successful prison.
Agence France-Presse contributed to this report.
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