Cartel Family Members Entered U.S. In Deal With Trump Admin: Mexican Security Chief | EUROtoday

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s safety chief confirmed Tuesday that 17 relations of cartel leaders crossed into the U.S. final week as a part of a deal between a son of the previous head of the Sinaloa Cartel and the Trump administration.

Mexican Security Secretary Omar García Harfuch confirmed a report by unbiased journalist Luis Chaparro that relations of Ovidio Guzman Lopez, who was extradited to the United States in 2023, had entered the U.S.

Guzmán Lopez is likely one of the brothers left operating a faction of the Sinaloa Cartel after infamous capo Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán was imprisoned within the U.S.

Video confirmed the relations strolling throughout the border from Tijuana with their suitcases to ready U.S. brokers.

Rumors had circulated final week that the youthful Guzmán would plead responsible to keep away from trial for a number of drug trafficking prices within the U.S. after being extradited in 2023.

García Harfuch confirmed the relations’ crossing in a radio interview and mentioned it was clear to Mexican authorities that they have been doing so after negotiations between Guzmán López and the U.S. authorities.

He believed that was the case as a result of the previous cartel boss, whose lawyer mentioned in January he had entered negotiations with U.S. authorities, had been pointing fingers at members of different prison organizations doubtless as a part of a cooperation settlement.

“It is evident that his family is going to the U.S. because of a negotiation or an offer that the Department of Justice is giving him,” Garcia Harfuch mentioned.

He mentioned that not one of the relations have been being pursued by Mexican authorities and that the federal government of U.S. President Donald Trump “has to share information” with Mexican prosecutors, one thing it has not but accomplished.

The affirmation by García Harfuch comes the identical day that the U.S. Attorney General’s Office introduced it was charging a lot of prime cartel leaders with “narcoterrorism” for the primary time because the Trump administration declared a lot of cartels as international terrorist organizations.

While prosecutors declined to touch upon the video of the household, U.S. Attorney Adam Gordon for the Southern District of California and different officers despatched a warning to cartel members, repeatedly citing the Sinaloa Cartel by identify.

“Let me be direct, to the leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel, you are no longer the hunters, you are the hunted. You will be betrayed by your friends, you will be hounded by your enemies, and you will ultimately find yourself and your face here in a courtroom in the Southern District of California,” Gordon mentioned.