Ovidio Guzman

(Newser) - A son of notorious Mexican drug kingpin "El Chapo" pleaded guilty in Chicago on Friday to US drug trafficking charges. He is the first of El Chapo's sons to enter a plea deal. Prosecutors allege Ovidio Guzman Lopez and his brother, Joaquin Guzman Lopez, ran a faction of...

(Newser) - Anyone with information on the whereabouts of two of El Chapo's sons now has huge motivation to talk. The US State Department on Monday announced a reward of up to $10 million for information leading to the arrests and/or convictions of Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar, 41, or...

(Newser) - Banners appeared Monday in northern Mexico purportedly signed by a faction of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel claiming that the gang has sworn off the sale and production of the synthetic opioid fentanyl. But, as the AP reports, experts quickly cast doubt on the veracity of the claim, saying that fentanyl—...

(Newser) - A Mexico City federal judge on Friday halted the extradition of Ovidio Guzman, son of druglord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, to the United States on drug trafficking charges. Per CNN , Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard has acknowledged the 2019 arrest warrant for Guzman out of the US, but he...