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  • ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán blames government for ‘violent crimes’ in Mexico Andrés Rodríguez
    Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán has blamed the Mexican government for “all the violent crimes” and has insisted on his extradition in a new letter sent to Judge Brian Cogan. This new request from the once most wanted man in the world comes just a couple of days after he delivered another letter in which he requested “fair treatment under the law” and “to be transferred” to Mexico to face the pending charges against him. The judge responded to the previous message in a statement, denying his requests b
     

‘El Chapo’ Guzmán blames government for ‘violent crimes’ in Mexico

7 May 2026 at 18:56

Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán has blamed the Mexican government for “all the violent crimes” and has insisted on his extradition in a new letter sent to Judge Brian Cogan. This new request from the once most wanted man in the world comes just a couple of days after he delivered another letter in which he requested “fair treatment under the law” and “to be transferred” to Mexico to face the pending charges against him. The judge responded to the previous message in a statement, denying his requests because he considered them unreasonable.

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Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman in the high security prison of Almoloya de Juarez, on June 10, 1993.

‘Hondurasgate,’ the alleged US and Israeli interference plot to destabilize Mexico and other progressive governments

7 May 2026 at 11:57

The United States and Israel, with the help of Honduras, are allegedly positioning themselves on the geopolitical chessboard to control spheres of influence in Latin America. The news outlet Diario Red en América Latina and the website Hondurasgate have revealed, in an investigation based on leaked audio recordings, the interventionist intentions of leaders of the global right. One piece of evidence, released at the end of April, claims that former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández, pardoned by Donald Trump from his 45-year sentence for drug trafficking — with the support of the Republican president himself, his Argentine counterpart Javier Milei, and the current Honduran administration — are conspiring to create a channel for disseminating fake news with the intention of spreading misinformation and destabilizing the governments of Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico.

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Juan Orlando Hernández in Washington on March 24, 2018.
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  • ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán requests extradition to Mexico from the United States Andrés Rodríguez
    Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, has sent another letter to Judge Brian Cogan requesting extradition to Mexico. According to the document, the once most-wanted man in the world insisted on receiving “equal treatment under the law” in his case and also requested to be tried in his home country on the pending charges against him. The drug lord has been serving a life sentence since 2019 for various drug trafficking offenses and has been incarcerated at the ADX Floren
     

‘El Chapo’ Guzmán requests extradition to Mexico from the United States

4 May 2026 at 18:45

Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, has sent another letter to Judge Brian Cogan requesting extradition to Mexico. According to the document, the once most-wanted man in the world insisted on receiving “equal treatment under the law” in his case and also requested to be tried in his home country on the pending charges against him. The drug lord has been serving a life sentence since 2019 for various drug trafficking offenses and has been incarcerated at the ADX Florence supermax federal prison in Colorado since then.

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Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán during his arrest in Mexico City on January 8, 2016.
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