El Chapo's son, Sinaloa members face sanctions over fentanyl
The United States has sanctioned a son of Mexican drug lord Joaquin โEl Chapoโ Guzman, three members of the Sinaloa cartel and two Mexican-based firms, alleging they trafficked fentanyl and other drugs into the U.S. Tuesday's sanctions came the day Mexican President Andrรฉs Manuel Lรณpez Obrador was talking with President Joe Biden about immigration and the fentanyl crisis.
Videos show violence hitting Mexico cartel stronghold as authorities arrest son of โEl Chapoโ
Videos from journalists in Mexico showed Culiacรกn, Sinaloa, a stronghold of the cartel once headed by Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquรญn โEl Chapoโ Guzmรกn, in fiery chaos following the arrest of one of his sons.
Wife of drug kingpin โEl Chapoโ arrested on US drug charges
FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2019 file photo, Emma Coronel Aispuro, center, wife of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, leaves federal court in New York. The wife of Mexican drug kingpin and escape artist Joaquin El Chapo Guzman has been arrested on international drug trafficking charges at an airport in Virginia. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)WASHINGTON โ The wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin โEl Chapoโ Guzman was arrested in the United States and accused of helping her husband run his multibillion-dollar cartel and plot his audacious escape from a Mexican prison in 2015. Her arrest is the latest twist in the bloody, multinational saga involving Guzman, the longtime head of the Sinaloa drug cartel. After Guzman was rearrested following his escape, Coronel lobbied the Mexican government to improve her husbandโs prison conditions.