by Allan Wall, Mexico News Report, ©2026
(May 28, 2026) — In January of 2017, Joaquin “el Chapo” Guzman, one of the two leaders of the Sinaloa drug cartel, was extradited to the United States, and he’s still there, locked up in the ADX Florence supermax prison in Colorado.
Drug cartels are family businesses. On May 26th, 2026, Chapo’s nephew was arrested by the Mexican government, and might wind up getting extradited to the United States.
The capture was announced by Secretary of Security Omar Garcia Harfuch on his Twitter X account on May 26th: “In Nogales, Sonora, Isai ‘N’ was detained, nephew of ‘El Chapo,’ who has an extradition order.”
The USA Herald has an article that looks at the big picture, entitled The Guzman Empire Is Crumbling: El Chapo’s Nephew Captured, Family Network Under Siege .
From that article: “Mexican security forces have captured the nephew of imprisoned drug kingpin Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman, delivering another blow to a cartel empire already fracturing from within. The suspect, identified only as Isai ‘N,’ was taken into custody in Sonora, a northern border state that has become a flashpoint in Mexico’s ongoing drug war. U.S. authorities had been seeking him, according to top security official Omar Garcia Harfuch, who announced the arrest on X.”
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