On Monday, December 1st, 2025, in room 1241 of the Chicago (Illinois) federal court, Joaqu\u00edn Guzm\u00e1n L\u00f3pez \u2014son of drug trafficker Joaqu\u00edn \u201cEl Chapo\u201d Guzm\u00e1n\u2014 changed his plea before Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman and pleaded guilty. <\/p>\n\n\nGuzm\u00e1n L\u00f3pez had been arrested in July 2024, in an operation that also included the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, Ismael \u201cEl Mayo\u201d Zambada, after arriving in a private plane in Texas. On that occasion, Guzm\u00e1n L\u00f3pez denied the charges \u2014which included drug trafficking, money laundering, and the use of weapons\u2014, but after negotiations with the prosecution, he modified his position.\n\nWith this statement, he becomes the second son of “El Chapo” to accept responsibility before the American justice system, after his brother Ovidio Guzm\u00e1n L\u00f3pez did the same in July 2025.\n\nThe decision represents a significant turn in the cartel case: Guzm\u00e1n L\u00f3pez was part of the group known as Los Chapitos, who reassumed control of the Sinaloa Cartel after the arrest of their father.\n\nThe charges against him include drug trafficking, money laundering, and the use of firearms, linked to the sale and distribution of drugs such as fentanyl to the United States.\n\nThis context, added to the cooperation of the accused with the authorities, opens the possibility that Guzm\u00e1n L\u00f3pez may access judicial benefits such as sentence reduction, witness protection, or collaboration in broader investigations against the criminal network.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On Monday, December 1st, 2025, in room 1241 of the Chicago (Illinois) federal court, Joaqu\u00edn Guzm\u00e1n L\u00f3pez \u2014son of drug trafficker Joaqu\u00edn \u201cEl Chapo\u201d Guzm\u00e1n\u2014 changed his plea before Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman and pleaded guilty. Guzm\u00e1n L\u00f3pez had been arrested in July 2024, in an operation that also included the leader of the Sinaloa […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-24hh","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Arelis Suero","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cropped-cropped-Diseno-sin-titulo-41-96x96.jpg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}