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.
Source: Ted Psahos
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.”
Source: Omar Garcia Harfuch’s Twitter X account
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.”
More from the USA Herald article: “The arrest comes at a turbulent moment for the Sinaloa cartel, once the most powerful drug trafficking organization in the world. An internal power struggle has erupted between factions loyal to El Chapo’s family and those aligned with co-founder Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada, who is himself awaiting trial in the United States. The infighting has turned deadly, spilling violence across border communities on both sides.”
[According to the Noroeste newspaper, as of May 25th, 2026, the murder toll in Sinaloa state since the intra-cartel war began Sept. 9th, 2024, is 3,294.] .
“Last month, Mexican soldiers, backed by U.S. intelligence, captured three of El Chapo’s brother’s closest allies. That brother, Aureliano Guzman Loera, known as “El Guano,” remains at large with a $5 million U.S. bounty on his head.”
“Meanwhile, the man at the center of it all sits locked away nearly 2,000 miles from his homeland. El Chapo, the co-founder of the Sinaloa cartel who twice escaped from Mexican prisons before being extradited to the United States in 2017, is serving a life sentence at the notorious ADX Florence facility in Colorado, widely known as the ‘Alcatraz of the Rockies.’ “
The article doesn’t mention another strike at the Chapitos faction of the Sinaloa Cartel. That’s the U.S. indictment of ten Mexican officials/former officials of the state of Sinaloa. Three are already in U.S. custody. See my recent articles on the topic See here, here, here , here , here , here, here and here.