Recently the controversy unleashed when it was revealed that at least 17 relatives of Ovidio Guzmán, Son of Mexican drug trafficker Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán, They had crossed towards the US where these are imprisoned after being extradited.
It was the Secretary of Security of Mexico, Omar García Harfuch, who confirmed the event, supposedly with the endorsement and protection of the US Department of Justice.
Ovid Guzmán, one of the calls Chapitos, He was captured in January 2023 during an operation in Culiacán, that for a long time has been the base of the Sinaloa cartel. He had already been arrested in 2019, but was then released, according to the Government, at that time headed by Andrés Manuel López Obrador, to avoid “a bloodbath.”
In September of that same year, he was extradited on a plane to Chicago, indicated by the US Prosecutor’s Office of positions of “conspiracy to import and distribute cocaine, Methamphetamines and marijuana from Mexico to the US CNN in Spanish.
What is behind all this?
“For days the rumor had extended that 17 relatives, including the ex -wife of the head of organized crime known as El Chapo (Mother of Ovidio Guzmán), They had flown from a bastion from the poster to Tijuana, Mexico, and then crossed the United States. A media reported that there had been delivered to the US federal authorities, “says The New York Times.
It was speculated that the delivery of family members, who were not sought by the authorities, was part of an agreement between the USA and Mexico, and for this reason the son of the Chapo could change “his declaration of innocence as part of a collaboration agreement with the Federal Prosecutor’s Office of the case”, according to CNN.
But the hermeticism reigns in the case, because the US authorities have not given more details about that delivery. In addition, the president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, sowed more doubts, by testifying: “We have no official or public information that says why this family entered” to the US.
In addition, Sheinbaum criticized the US for “having negotiated with terrorists.” “They have to inform, and they have to explain to the people of the United States too How are if they are reaching an agreement how they do it, ”said Sheinbaum.
Ongoing negotiation
According to analysts and experts, cited by CNN in Spanish, the transfer of the relatives of Ovidio Guzmán, who before the accusations of US You can only answer that there is an ongoing negotiation that could change the situation of the son of Chapo
“Surely as part of the negotiation, Ovid’s family asked that his family be protected. That is why these people moved to the United States ”, Samuel González, former Mexican Anti -Drugs, said consulted by CNN. Thus, the accused plans to change his declaration of innocence, during an audience that is scheduled for July 9.
According to US media, their own lawyers have confirmed that There is a negotiation with the US authorities.
Ovid Guzmán It has valuable information for US authorities. On drug routes, basic poster operations, and of course, others involved in drug transfer, including outstanding former officials and politicians.
It is precisely these details that are on the table. Mike Vigil, former head of International Operations of the DEA, He believes that Guzmán’s statements will be important, Especially in the case against Ismael Zambada, co -founder of the Sinaloa cartel, also imprisoned in the USA and who is believed to be delivered to the US. UU. Through deceit’s deceptions of Ovid Guzmán.
“Those who are collaborating are those of this generation. The old bosses like May Zambada never speak. El Chapo He did not collaborate, and May Nor will it do it, ”Vigil told CNN.
Meanwhile, The whereabouts of Guzmán’s relatives in the US is ignored, Highlight the news chain.