Were 17 members of El Chapo’s family from Mexico accompanied in us?

Mexico city – The most important pillars of the Trump government’s politics towards Mexico include large-scale deportations and an action against cartels.

However, reports in the Mexican media indicate that the US authorities recently have organized the secret, cross-border step of at least 17 relatives of the most notorious drug kingpins Mexicos-Joaquín “El Chapo” GuzmánPresent Co-founder of the Sinaloa cartel to California.

On Wednesday, the Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said, and the US authorities would not have informed their Mexican colleagues about an apparently choreographed operation by Washington to transport the extended family of drug lord across the Tijuana border to San Diego.

“We do our work” to fight drug trafficking, said Sheinbaum. “The problem is: what information is there out there and how do you explain this? You have to provide information.”

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In a radio interview on Tuesday, Omar García Haröuch, Mexico security manager confirmed that the move took place.

He described the transfer of El Chapo’s relatives as part of a “negotiation” between the US Ministry of Justice and the representatives of one of the sons of El Chapo, Ovidio Guzmán López, who is exposed to drug smuggling and other charges in front of the Federal Court in Chicago.

Guzmán López was initially arrested in a military attack in 2019, in which arms battles paralyzed the city of Culiacán, which prompted President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to freely freed him to end violence. It was redesigned in a second bloody operation in 2023, which left at least 29 dead, including 10 Mexican soldiers. Mexico brought him to the United States in September 2023 to be charged with drug trafficking.

Guzmán López, 35, known as El Ratón (“The Mouse”), plans to change his non -guilty plea in guilty, but the conditions of his potential plea remain publicly unknown. A trial was determined on July 9 in front of a Federal Supreme Court in Chicago.

“As we saw in the news, Ovidio begins a negotiation with the United States Ministry of Justice, and it is obvious that his family (with) goes to the United States,” García Haröuch told Mexico’s radio.

The current whereabouts of the El Chapo relatives could not be determined. It was unclear whether they were in any form of protection authorities.

In Mexico, according to security experts, El Chapos could be susceptible to violence in connection with a civil war in the Sinaloa cartel.

The case against Guzmán López is part of a far-reaching US efforts to defeat the Sinaloa gang, which is considered the most extensive criminal organization of Mexico. The Sinaloa cartel is one of six in Mexico, which the Trump government described as foreign terrorist organizations.

In Mexico there was speculation that Guzmán López could agree to the government in exchange for a reduced prison sentence and other concessions in drug cases. Such “cooperation agreements”, experts say, routinely contain the protection of relatives of potential witnesses.

The Ministry of Justice has not explained why Mexico was apparently not informed about the operation to move El Chapo’s extended family across the border. It is unclear whether the decision was an oversight or a deliberate omission of fear that the message would pass on the move to criminal elements in Mexico.

A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Justice, Nicole Navas, refused to comment. Guzmán Lopez’s lawyer based in New York, Jeffrey Lichtman, did not give back any news.

El Chapo, who was convicted of leading a huge drug network in 2019, serves a lifelong prison in a “Supermax” error in Colorado.

The reports on the relatives of El Chapos who entered San Diego.

On Monday, Chaparro reported on his YouTube channel that 17 of El Chapo’s related-almost his ex-wife, various nephews and nieces, a grandson, a daughter and a son-in-law in San Ysidro on lunchtime, and were met by FBI agents. They carried more than 70,000 US dollars in cash, said Chaparro, who said that at least one sniper was watching the group when they passed to US authorities.

Among the group was Griselda López, El Chapo’s former woman and the mother of Ovidio and his older brother Joaquín Guzmán López, who is also charged with drugs in US.

In the Mexican press there was widespread speculation that the two detained brothers are looking for a plea deal and may agree to testify against Ismael Sambada García, a co-founder, with El Chapo of the notorious Sinaloa cartel.

Sambada said he was kidnapped by Joaquín Guzmán López in the summer and flew into the care of US agents outside of El Paso. The Mexican authorities say that they too were blindly made by this sensational operation, which, according to Mexican authorities, was probably orchestrated by US agents. Sambada is reportedly in plea negotiations with the US authorities to avoid a potential death penalty.

His arrest has triggered a bloody lawn war that divided the Sinaloa cartel. Supporters of Sambada fight against El Chapo’s sons, known as Los Chapitos, to control the notorious organization. Two of the other sons of El Chapo are both refugees who have stayed in Mexico and avoided the arrest while taking on their father’s legacy, the authorities say.

Times staff author Keegan Hamilton in Los Angeles and special correspondent Cecilia Sánchez Vidal and Liliana Nieto del Río in Mexico -Stadt contributed to this report.