Case of ‘El Chapo’ son cooperating with U.S. prosecutors roils Mexico

Mexico City – Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and Joaquín of the drug king Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán’s son, representing his son, a painful dispute here, once brought to the agenda that the Sinaloa Cartel leader’s search for an agreement could reveal the corrupt Mexican authorities.

On Tuesday, Sheinbaum said last week that he had complained of insulting in Mexico against the high -profile lawyer Jeffrey Lichtman, representing Ovidio Guzmán López, who claimed to have been guilty of Fentanil trade and other crimes in Chicago last week. He agreed to cooperate with US prosecutors to reduce a potential life sentence.

In the comments after the court hearing, Lichtman labeled the repeated contents of Sheinbaum that Washington should coordinate with Mexico in the case – Especially as expected, Guzmán López poured the beans on claims between Mexican officials and cartels.

In a fire -raising mission on the X, Litchman attacked the Mexican leader’s “corrupt office and his government, and claimed that a drug smuggling organization acts more than the honest leader of the Mexican people as a public branch of public relations”.

This triggered a Flurry from allies in Sheinbaum’s ruling Morena block, who dominated Mexican politics.

Sheinbaum’s official adviser Ernestina Godoy Ramos labeled Lichtman’s comments, “Grotesque and forgiveness cannot be forgiven, violated the ethical and legal limits of the profession”.

Sheinbaum declared: “I will not dialogue with a lawyer [a] Narco-Trafficter. “

Lichtman also represented El Chapo, who was now sentenced to life imprisonment in a US prison in Colorado, and another son of the drug master Joaquín Guzmán López’s lawyer. Like his brother, the United States is in custody and face of drug trafficking and other accusations.

El Chapo’s sons, Los ChapitosProsecutors, or “Little Zatos” assumed the responsibility of the cartel agreements after their father was arrested in 2016. Guzmán López was returned to the United States in 2023 after a conflict outside Culiacán, the Sinaloa state capital Culiacán, which allowed almost two dozen people, including 10 Mexican soldiers. According to the US officials, El Chapo’s two other sons manage Cartel operations in Mexico.

New York Barriseri and LA President Here is a widespread feeling that Guzmán López is ready to attract a dirt about Mexican politicians in the payroll of the Sinaloa cartel. He may have done it anyway.

Political observers ask, can he explain the special treatment of El Chapo’s family in spring?

In May, US officials accompanied 17 members from Tijuana to San Diego from Tijuana, including El Chapo’s ex -wife Ovidio and Joaquín’s mother. Although the US Department of Justice refused to comment, Mexico’s best law enforcement official said that the movement is probably part of a cooperation agreement between Guzmán López and Washington.

“HE [Ovidio] He must be singing, ”he says, Guillermo Valdés Castellanos is a political enemy of a former intelligence chief Sheinbaum, under the direction of former president Felipe Calderón.“ I think Donald Trump’s Mexican government is part of a very clear strategy in action against deep connections between organized crime and Mexican policy. “

While he often praised Sheinbaum, Trump condemned the “unbearable alliance arasında between the Mexican government and the organized crime. Trump introduced punishing tariffs to Mexico, which he calls to close Fentanyl smuggling.

Although critics call Trump’s characterization as exaggerated, the Narc-Fovenment cooperation in Mexico dates back to decades.

Genaro García Luna, Calderón’s senior security official, was convicted of getting millions of dollars of bribery from Sinaloa cartel smugglers and was sentenced to a 38 -year prison.

Sheinbaum and former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the political mentor, greeted the prosecution of García Luna, a lawsuit exposed to deep corruption between the US political rivals. However, the tables may be returning now.

No public explanation has been made that Guzmán López could be secretly explained to US prosecutors. However, the speculation in Mexico focused on the suspicious distortion of Narco-Fovenors serving under the flag of Sheinbaum’s dominant Morena political block. None of them were accused.

However, even more explosives, Sheinbaum’s predecessor and the founder of Morena López Obrador’a new claims, he says. During the six -year period, López Obrador repeatedly rejected reports that they have received political donations from organized crime people.

According to all accounts, the publication of new charges from US officials against López Obrador can trigger a political earthquake in Mexico.

“There is a complete uncertainty and fear in the presidency, Jos José Luis Montenegro, a Mexican journalist, is a Mexican journalist who wrote a book about it Los Chapitos. “Morena politicians must be shaking.”

Sheinbaum was widely appreciated for a “cool -headed” approach to Trump provocations on tariffs, immigration and drug trafficking. However, the President of the Mexican president sharply scolded the intention of US prosecutors with the son of El Chapo. He accused US officials of hypocrisy – seeking cooperation from Guzmán López at a time when the Trump administration sets the Sinaloa Cartel and other Mexican crime groups as terrorist organizations.

“So where are the ‘not negotiating with terrorist groups’ positions?” Sheinbaum asked this month.

The Mexican leaders are still angry that Ismael, the founding partner of El Chapo’s Sinaloa cartel, who is currently in custody in the United States, said that the US said that the United States said almost a year ago.

Mexican officials suspected that US officials hired Joaquín Guzmán López to kidnap El Mayo, pack it on a private plane and fly it to an airport outside the El Paso, and arrested both El Mayo and Joaquín López.

Washington never clarified his role in the sensational case. The visible betrayal of El Mayo started a civil war on the cartel – El Mayo is pitting his loyalists Los Chapitos – This cost hundreds of life in Sinaloa province.

Now, the three best defendants Sinaloa Cartel Capos sits in custody of the United States, and at least one of the Guzmán López seems to be eager to make an agreement that can reveal the official corruption network and Mexican politics.

Private Cruel Cacilia Sánchez Vidal contributed to this report.