Mexico’s security secretary this week claimed that more than a dozen relatives of the former Sinaloa Cartel leader Ovidio Guzmán Lopez were allowed to enter the United States as part of “a negotiation” with the Justice Department.
Mexican Security Secretary Omar García Harfuch on Tuesday said in a radio interview that 17 family members of Guzmán Lopez, the youngest son of former cartel head Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, are “going to the U.S. because of a negotiation or an offer that the Department of Justice is giving” Guzmán Lopez, who was extradited to the U.S. in 2023 on drug trafficking charges, in exchange for his cooperation.
Guzmán Lopez allegedly led a faction of the Sinaloa Cartel, which has been designated as a terrorist organization by the Trump administration, along with his brothers since their father was arrested in 2016.
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