The US asks Mexico for the extradition of the son of ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán: local media

The United States government has asked Mexico for the extradition of Ovidio Guzmán, son of Mexican drug trafficker Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, according to local media reports on Monday.

Ovid Guzman he was arrested in early January in an operation in which almost thirty people lost their lives, including ten soldiers. More than 50 injured and a city in panic

Guzmán López, who became a key figure in the cartel after his father’s arrest in 2016, he was arrested in October 2019 by the security forces, but quickly released to avoid “bloodshed” by his henchmen, officials said at the time, in an embarrassing setback for Mexican authorities.

Since 2018, the 32-year-old man has been wanted by the US authorities for flooding that country with fentanyl, a powerful chemical drug that has triggered an epidemic of deaths in the United States. Washington offered a reward of up to $5 million for information leading to his arrest.

[Con información de Reuters y AP]

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