{"id":27704,"date":"2025-05-15T21:20:46","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T21:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=27704"},"modified":"2025-05-15T21:20:46","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T21:20:46","slug":"donald-trump-just-let-worlds-most-notorious-drug-lords-family-into-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=27704","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump just let world’s most notorious drug lord’s family into the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"

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17 relatives of a notorious Mexican gang leader have reportedly been permitted travel over the border to the United States this week.<\/p>\n

The controversial move forms part of a new deal between\u00a0President Trump<\/a>\u00a0and the infamous Sinaloa Cartel – specifically, the son of Joaqu\u00edn ‘El Chapo’ Guzm\u00e1n, the former head of the group.<\/p>\n

The cartel, also known as the Guzm\u00e1n-Loera Organisation, describes a colossal organised crime syndicate and terrorist organisation, specialising in\u00a0drug trafficking<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0money<\/a>\u00a0laundering.<\/p>\n

El Chapo fronted the group for several years – during which the 68-year-old is believed to have caused the\u00a0deaths<\/a>\u00a0of over 34,000 people. This led to him being considered the most powerful drug trafficker in the world by federal organisations.<\/p>\n

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El Chapo is a former leader of the criminal gang (YURI CORTEZ\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

Following countless arrest attempts and prison break-outs, El Chapo was captured by authorities in 2017 and extradited to the\u00a0US.<\/a>\u00a0Two years later, he was found guilty on a plethora of criminal charges in relation to the Sinaloa Cartel and sentenced to\u00a0life<\/a>\u00a0behind bars. The gang lord has remained under the careful watch of officers at Colorado’s maximum security facility, ADX Florence, ever since.<\/p>\n

There has since been a shocking new development in the case, however, with independent journalist Luis Chaparro breaking the news on Wednesday (14 May) that Ovidio Guzm\u00e1n L\u00f3pez – El Chapo’s son – was previously offered a mutually-beneficial arrangement.<\/p>\n

L\u00f3pez, 35, is himself a drug lord known as ‘the Mouse’, and was responsible for running the cartel in his father’s absence before being extradited to America back in 2023.<\/p>\n

After agreeing to the deal, the family of L\u00f3pez were subsequently welcomed into the US. Among the family members having been allowed into the US this week was El Chapo’s former wife, Griselda L\u00f3pez P\u00e9rez.<\/p>\n

This latest report was also confirmed by Mexican Security Secretary Omar Garc\u00eda Harfuch in the hours that followed.<\/p>\n

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L\u00f3pez was extradited in 2023 (Luis Barron\/ Eyepix Group\/Future Publishing via Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

Speaking on the radio, Garc\u00eda Harfuch explained the decision surrounding the deal, claiming it was struck during negotiations between L\u00f3pez and the US government amid his transfer to the United States.<\/p>\n

“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,” he told listeners.<\/p>\n

Garc\u00eda Harfuch added that no members of the Guzm\u00e1n-L\u00f3pez family that had been permitted entry to the States were wanted by Mexican authorities.<\/p>\n

In new video footage shared by the Spanish news outlet Radio Formula, several relatives of El Chapo himself could be seen moving luggage as they waited to be processed at the border between Tijuana in Mexico, and San Diego, California.<\/p>\n

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Pam Bondi discussed the deal (Kayla Bartkowski\/Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

Harfuch’s confirmation of the news came within hours of a speech given by Pam Bondi, the US Attorney General, where she announced that the government would be charging a number of leaders with ‘narcoterrorism’ in the coming weeks, after Trump branded several prolific cartels ‘foreign terrorist organisations’.<\/p>\n

Southern California US Attorney, Adam Gordon, issued a warning following the move.<\/p>\n

“Let me be direct, to the leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel, you are no longer the hunters, you are the hunted,” he threatened.<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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