Relatives of Ovidio Guzman, a son of Sinaloa cartel co-founder Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, have gone to the United States as part of a “negotiation” with US authorities, Mexico’s security minister said Tuesday.
Ovidio Guzman was extradited to the United States in 2023 to face narcotics charges, joining his father who is serving a life sentence in a US prison.
The 17 relatives who traveled to the United States were “not wanted by Mexican authorities,” Security Minister Omar Garcia Harfuch said in an interview with Radio Formula.
He urged the US Department of Justice to share information with Mexican authorities about the case.
The US Department of Justice declined to comment.
The United States accuses El Chapo’s sons — known as the Chapitos — of taking over the Sinaloa Cartel after the capture of their father.
Another son, Joaquin Guzman Lopez, was arrested after arriving in the United States last July in a private plane with cartel co-founder Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, who claimed he had been kidnapped.
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