Joaquín Guzmán Lopez, son of drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera plead guilty This Monday Before the Chicago court. The situation confirms the speculation that Guzmán López has reached an agreement with the US Department of Justice … .
Son of a legendary drug dealer He faces 15 charges For alleged management of a criminal enterprise such as the Sinaloa Cartel, drug trafficking, money laundering and illegal use of weapons.
Guzman Lopez, 39, also admitted to kidnapping Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada on July 25, 2024 to transport him to the United States via a private Beechcraft King Air plane, which landed at a small airport in New Mexico.
Zambada kidnapping The bilateral relationship between Mexico and the United States was shocked: President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador accused Washington of this Mexico’s sovereignty was violated.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois reported last week that Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman has scheduled a hearing Monday for Guzman Lopez to change his initial not guilty plea.
It is not yet known whether the agreement with the Public Prosecutor’s Office will be similar to the agreement signed by his younger brother Ovidio last July. Ovidio accepted responsibility for four of the 15 counts listed in two indictments filed against him in Chicago and New York. Two for drug trafficking and two for continuing criminal activity.
Last July, given the possibility that Ovidio would accuse members of the Mexican government, President Claudia Sheinbaum warned that if Mexicans were involved in the operation, evidence should be presented to her country’s prosecutor’s office. The President stressed that although there is coordination with the United States in combating crime, if charges are filed, they must be accompanied by elements that support them.
“If charges are brought in this trial against anyone in Mexico, the evidence must be provided by the United States government to the Attorney General’s Office, so that it can do its job in our country,” he stressed.
He also questioned this kind of agreement between the Guzmán family: “The US government is not well understood: because, on the one hand, it names criminal organizations as terrorist, it has a policy of ‘not negotiating with terrorists.’ And if there is an agreement, then Where is your position on “not negotiating with terrorist groups”?‘?«.
On the other hand, this weekend I interviewed Emma Coronel Aispuro, the wife of “El Chapo” Guzmán, who said she felt deep sympathy for the victims who lost family members to violence related to the drug trade.
In the documentary Married to El Chapo: Emma Coronel Speaks, the former beauty queen offered an apology to those who suffered from the actions of the Sinaloa Cartel.
“I sympathize with all the people who have lost loved ones and who have suffered. “Really, I’m so sorry,” he said at the conclusion of the television special.