Ovidio Guzmán, son of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán”, pleaded not guilty in a Chicago court to charges of fentanyl trafficking, after being extradited to the United States.
Guzmán, 33, is one of El Chapo’s four sons known as “Los Chapitos” who inherited their father’s drug trafficking empire after his conviction for murder and drug trafficking in the United States in 2019.
“El Chapo” Guzmán is serving a life sentence in a maximum-security prison in Colorado.

U.S. officials said the arrest and extradition of Ovidio Guzmán represents a significant victory in President Joe Biden’s administration’s efforts to stem the flow of fentanyl across the southern border.

Ovidio Guzmán was briefly arrested in Culiacán, in the northern state of Sinaloa, in 2019. But President Andrés Manuel López Obrador ordered his release after hundreds of members of the Sinaloa Cartel overwhelmed security forces in the city.

He was captured again in January after intense gunfights. Washington requested his extradition in February.

If convicted, two of the charges carry life in prison. According to that local newspaper, within the framework of the extradition negotiation with the Mexican authorities, the death penalty was excluded.
Fentanyl, a highly addictive synthetic opioid, is responsible for nearly 200 American deaths a day, a figure that has strained relations between the two countries and put domestic pressure on the government to stop the spread of the drug.

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