Mexican officials said Wednesday that last week, 17 family members of drug cartel leaders crossed the United States, a deal between the former Sinaloa Cartel and a son of the Trump administration.
Mexican security secretary Omar García Harfuch confirmed a report by independent journalist Luis Chaparro showing that Ovidio Guzmán López's family entered Lopez, the US, where the son of imprisoned Sinaloa Cartel Boss Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán was introduced to 2023.
Guzman's ex-wife Grisel da López Pérez is among the family members allowed to enter the United States.
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The framework is obtained from a video provided by the Mexican government and shows that Ovidio Guzmán López was detained in Culiacan, Mexico on October 17, 2019. (via AP file cepropie)
García Harfuch said in a radio interview that the deal was reached in negotiations between Guzmán López and the U.S. government.
"It's obvious that his family will go to the United States due to negotiations or the proposal given to him by the Justice Department," García Harfuch said.
Mexican authorities do not have a family pursuing it.
Video footage released online by the Spanish socket broadcast formula shows Guzmán's family carrying luggage while processing at the Tijuana/San Diego border crossing. They reportedly packed $70,000 in cash with them.
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A truck burned on a street in Kuliakahn, Sinaloa on January 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Martin Urista)
García Harfuch's confirmation was announced in the office of U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi that this is the first time since the Trump administration announced multiple cartels as foreign terrorist organizations that it has been accused of "nestant terrorism" to many top cartel leaders.
"Let me go straight to the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, you are no longer a hunter, you are the one being hunted," U.S. Attorney Adam Gordon said in the southern California area. "You will be betrayed by your friends, you will be hunted by enemies, and eventually you will find yourself and your face in court in the southern California area."
Guzmán López, 35, also known as the "Rat", is one of Guzmán's four sons known as "Los Chapitos", who runs the Sinaloa Cartel in his father's absence. At his peak, Elder Guzman is one of the most powerful drug traffickers in the world, turning the Sinaloa Cartel into a major force, one of the largest groups responsible for illegal drugs
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He was arrested and extradited to the United States in 2017 and was sentenced to drug trafficking and other crimes. He was imprisoned in Colorado.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.