Guzman has been most notably charged in two federal grand jury indictments in the U.S. – in Chicago in 2009, and In El Paso in 2012.
In the Chicago case, the more sweeping of the two, he is charged along with 10 other Sinaloan cartel leaders in a massive indictment for moving heroin and cocaine into this country after his organization merged with another “affiliated cartel” and formed an alliance knows as “the Federation.”
But that agreement later fractured, and since then, according to the “special grand jury“ impaneled just to look at the cartel case, Guzman and other leaders “became engaged in a violent war in Mexico over various issues, including control of lucrative narcotics trafficking routes into the United States.”
Federal prosecutors in Chicago brought the charges against Guzman in Chicago in 2009, after the two cartels began a feud and two brothers, Pedro and Margarito Flores, who had been working with the cartels began cooperating with federal investigators.
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