CHICAGO — A son of the infamous Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman pleaded guilty Monday in Chicago to a narcotics trafficking charge and continuing criminal enterprise, U.S. media reported.

Joaquin Guzman Lopez, one of four sons of the jailed Sinaloa cartel leader, originally pleaded not guilty after his July 2024 arrest in Texas, but changed it at U.S. District Court in Chicago, the Chicago Tribune reported.

Another of his three brothers, Ovidio Guzman — as part of a plea deal struck in exchange for a reduced sentence — pleaded guilty in July 2025 to conspiracy related to drug trafficking and two counts of participating in the activities of a criminal enterprise.

Ovidio Guzman also admitted that he and his brothers, known as “Los Chapitos,” had taken over their father’s opera

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