Ovid Guzmán Lópezalias The mousewill be guilty of multiple drug trafficking positions next July 9 before a federal court in ChicagoIllinois, after reaching an agreement with the Department of Justice of the USAaccording to a judicial notification entered on May 6.
The document establishes that the defendant will resign from his right to judgment in exchange for a recommendation to receive a reduced penaltywhich could include additional benefits if he collaborates as a witness in related processes.
The case of Ovid, the youngest of the children of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán And the first to be extradited, is part of a formal accusation that includes conspiracy charges to produce, traffic and distribute cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, marijuana, chemical precursors and money laundering, among other violent crimes linked to firearms.
The accusation also implies his brother, Joaquín Guzmán Lópezwith whom a parallel agreement would be agreed, this after his arrest on June 25, 2024, when he arrived in US territory with his godfather, Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada.
This procedural turn would have direct consequences not only in Mexico and the Sinaloa cartel, but also changed the panorama for the historic founder of the criminal group, “El Mayo” Zambada.
In an interview with Millennium News, Óscar Balderas maintains that the admission of guilt of “the mouse” representa A strategic setback for “May”.
From his perspective, the agreement achieved by “the mouse” “is advanced” to the veteran cartel leader, significantly limiting his value as a collaborator before the US authorities. This weakens his negotiation capacity and forced him to “find a statement of guilt with a much smaller margin.”
In this context, he considers that Ovid’s play subtract political and legal fire to Zambadawho would lose the opportunity to position themselves as the main cooperation witness to the US government.
For its part, in an interview with Radio formulathe journalist Jesus Esquivel It rejects that Ovid Guzmán’s agreement implies a closure for other similar negotiations.
Ensures that “May “Zambada is also negotiating its own guilt agreement With US authorities, represented by the lawyer Frank Pérez in a New York court. According to this version, Both agreements can coexistsince each capo possesses different and valuable information.
Esquivel emphasizes that The United States has operated for years with multiple cooperating witnesses Within the same case, and that Ovid and “El May” can provide different levels of criminal intelligence, from drug trafficking routes to Corrupted officials of officialsboth in Mexico and abroad.
“It does not imply that (Ovid Agreement) can deactivate or prevent one with May,” said Esquivel, who also considers that the US judicial system prioritizes the usefulness of testimony beyond the order in which it is obtained. He adds that the relevant will be the volume and quality of the information delivered, not who first arrived at the agreement.
Both versions agree that the high -profile judicial agreements such as those of Ovidio Guzmán They have an explosive potential in political termsespecially if they imply revelations about authorities, electoral campaigns and institutional protection structures In Mexico.
The mouse agreement already generates speculation on the names that it could mention and the impact that this would have for governors, military, businessmen and former officials.
In that sense, The figure of “El Mayo” Zambadawith more than two decades as the maximum leader of the Sinaloa cartel, It is still key. Whether as a last bastion of silence or as a new star collaborator, his role could define the following phase of the cross -border judicial process against the corruption and violence network that allowed the growth of Fentanyl traffic, one of the axes of the current United States security strategy.
