{"id":3430,"date":"2019-03-12T01:33:13","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T01:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/?p=3430"},"modified":"2019-03-12T01:33:13","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T01:33:13","slug":"two-sons-of-el-chapo-indicted-in-us-on-drug-conspiracy-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/2019\/03\/12\/two-sons-of-el-chapo-indicted-in-us-on-drug-conspiracy-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Two sons of El Chapo indicted in US on drug conspiracy charges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Two sons of notorious drug lord Joaquin \u201cEl Chapo\u201d Guzman have been indicted on drug conspiracy charges, the US justice department has said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joaquin Guzman Lopez, 34, and Ovidio Guzman Lopez, 28, were charged in a single-count indictment that was unsealed last week in Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prosecutors allege the two brothers conspired to distribute cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana into the US from Mexico and elsewhere in the world from 2008 to 2018. They are both believed to be living in Mexico<\/a>and remain fugitives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Their father was convicted<\/a> earlier this month on drug and conspiracy charges in New York. During a trial that lasted more than three months, prosecutors portrayed El Chapo as the calculating leader of a bloodthirsty smuggling operation that funnelled tons of cocaine and other drugs into American cities. The offences could put him behind bars for the rest of his life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prosecutors have said Guzman, who twice escaped from prison in Mexico and was extradited to the US last year for his trial, had amassed a multibillion-dollar fortune smuggling tons of cocaine and other drugs in a vast supply chain that reached well north of the border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Two sons of notorious drug lord Joaquin \u201cEl Chapo\u201d Guzman have been indicted on drug conspiracy charges, the US justice department has said. Joaquin Guzman Lopez, 34, and Ovidio Guzman Lopez, 28, were charged in a single-count indictment that was unsealed last week in Washington. Prosecutors allege the two brothers conspired to distribute cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana into the US… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3431,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3430\/revisions\/3431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}