{"id":34139,"date":"2025-07-11T19:29:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T19:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=34139"},"modified":"2025-07-11T19:29:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T19:29:36","slug":"el-chapo-scion-pleads-guilty-to-us-trafficking-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=34139","title":{"rendered":"\u2018El Chapo\u2019 scion pleads guilty to US trafficking charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for free<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__content-sign-up-topic-description o3-type-body-base\"><span>Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"article__content-sign-up-iframe close\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"signUpIframe\" data-prev-url=\"\/register\/in-article-sign-up?ft-content-uuid=bbfa18ba-db11-4bb1-bb22-45420d5a2596\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>A son of the co-founder of the notorious Sinaloa Cartel pleaded guilty to US drug trafficking charges on Friday, as American prosecutors target the global crime group for its role in supplying fentanyl.<\/p>\n<p>Ovidio Guzm\u00e1n, son of cartel co-founder Joaqu\u00edn \u201cEl Chapo\u201d Guzm\u00e1n, pleaded guilty to four counts, including drug distribution and participating in a continuing criminal enterprise, in a Chicago court on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>Guzm\u00e1n is one of four of El Chapo\u2019s sons, known collectively as \u201cLos Chapitos\u201d, who led a major faction of the cartel. They oversaw a generational shift in the group towards synthetic opioids, away from plant-based drugs such as cocaine and marijuana.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/bbfa18ba-db11-4bb1-bb22-45420d5a2596\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":34140,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}