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Son of 'Chapo' Guzmán to plead guilty to drug trafficking in the US

Mexican drug trafficker Joaquín Guzmán López will plead guilty in a US court next Monday to drug trafficking charges. The hearing is set for Chicago, where his brother Ovidio also pleaded guilty last year.


Son of 'Chapo' Guzmán to plead guilty to drug trafficking in the US

Mexican drug trafficker Joaquín Guzmán López, son of Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán, will plead guilty in his hearing in the United States next Monday after initially pleading not guilty upon arriving in the country in July 2024, judicial documents revealed this Friday. Guzmán López, alias 'El Güero', has agreed to plead guilty to at least one charge related to drug trafficking before the District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, in the city of Chicago. In that same court, his brother Ovidio made a similar decision last July.