After at least 17 relatives of Ovidio Guzmán López entered the United States last Friday as part of an alleged cooperation agreement between the drug lord and federal authorities, it has emerged that they may not be the only beneficiaries of this scheme.
According to Óscar Hagelsieb, former director of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Ciudad Juárez and a former official with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the 17 relatives “will not be the last” and that more members of the Guzmán López clan are expected to receive similar benefits.
“What I can tell you, and I have information from a high-ranking source, is that this won’t be the last of those benefits. There are still more. These benefits will be extended, not just to these 17,” he commented in an interview with journalist Luis Chaparro on the program Pie de Nota.
It was Luis Chaparro himself who revealed that among the group of 17 relatives who arrived in the US in a silent operation were the kingpin’s mother, Griselda López Pérez, his sister Griselda Guzmán López, as well as his brother-in-law and several nephews and cousins, who arrived at the San Ysidro border bridge with a lot of luggage and at least $70,000 in cash.
