El Chapo’s relatives come to us as part of the negotiation, says Mexico’s security secretary of Mexico

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Several family members of the Mexican drug dealer Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán joined the United States as part of the negotiations in one case against one of his sons.

El Chapo’s son Ovidio Guzmán López will face drug trafficking in the United States because of his alleged role in the Sinaloa cartel, which his father co-founded. Ovidio was delivered to the United States in September 2023, a few months after the Mexican authorities had arrested him in a large -scale operation that led to at least 29 deaths.

Days after his delivery, he did not think about the drug trade in front of a US court. Last week, according to a court document tested by CNN, he achieved an agreement to change his plea. The document did not indicate any details of the agreement.

“It is clear that when he goes to the United States, his family is connected with this opportunities for negotiations or plea of ​​the Ministry of Justice (US),” García Haröuch told Radio Fórmula.

Several Mexican media transactions reported on Tuesday that 17 of Ovidio’s relatives had crossed the border to the United States. CNN has requested further information from the Mexican Ministry of Security and Citizens’ Protection as well as the US Ministry of Justice.

García Haröuch added that the relatives who left the country were not sought by Mexican authorities.

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Ovidio is one of four sons of El Chapo, who were charged in the USA in the Sinaloa cartel in the USA in the USA.

Overall known as “Los Chapitos”, the brothers are said to have been brought into the cartel as a teenager in order to learn the advantages and disadvantages of the organization, according to the crime of the thought factory. Her roles were clearer around the mid -2010s, around when her father was captured and delivered to the United States.

Another son of El Chapo, Joaquín Guzmán López, is also located in US. He was arrested in July 2024 when he flew to the USA next to Ismael “El Mayo” Sambada, a co -founder of the cartel, with which the brothers were in contradiction to a co -founder of the cartel.

Joaquín allegedly organized his arrest and that of El Mayo by luring him on the flight to examine a piece of land that he believed that he was in Mexico, an official who was familiar with the operation at the time. Instead, the plane landed in El Paso, Texas, where federal agents arrested them.

Rosa Icela Rodriguez in Mexico said in August that Joaquín had made an agreement with his brother Ovidio, “so that they would go to the United States to surrender”.

However, a lawyer from Ovidio said CNN that Rodriguez ‘claim was “a complete and complete production”. A lawyer from El Mayo said that he “neither complied with the US government nor negotiated with the US government” and described the escape to the USA as violent kidnapping.

Two other sons by El Chapo, Ivan Archivaldo and Jesus Alfredo Guzmán Salazar are still at large. The United States has accused them of leading large drug trafficking for the cartel, and have published $ 10 million Bounties for information that leads to each of their arrests.

The Mexican armed forces had previously arrested Ovidio in an operation from 2019 that ended with a failure. Shortly after he was arrested in October this year, the cartel quickly mobilized dozens of armed men to combat and free the Mexican authorities.

Ovidio was finally released on the command of the then President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to stop violence. Then he hid until his second arrest and later delivery in 2023.

This is a developing history and is updated.