Joaquin Guzman Lopez followed in the footsteps of his brother Ovidio Guzman Lopez by pleading guilty to drug trafficking charges, thus avoiding trial Under an agreement with federal prosecutors.

“Guilty,” Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman's are pleaded before Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman.

The charges Joaquin Guzman Lopez faces in the United States include drug trafficking, money laundering, firearms possession, and the production, distribution, and trafficking of fentanyl.

However, the member of “Los Chapitos” convicted to two drug trafficking charges and to leading a continuing criminal enterprise.

“El Guero's” lawyer is Jeffrey Lichtman, the same lawyer as his brother Ovidio Guzman Lopez, who led the negotiations with prosecutors.

It remains unclear how “El Guero's” cooperation with prosecutors will work, but he has been under public scrutiny for allegedly helping US authorities arrest Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, leader of the Sinaloa Cartel. At the hearing, Joaquin Guzman Lopez admitted that he tricked Zambada into coming to the US Both were arrested in El Paso, Texas, after a private plane traveled from Sinaloa. Zambada's case is being heard in the Eastern District Court in New York, where he pleaded guilty on August 25. This newspaper questioned Attorney General Pamela Bondi about how Zambada was brought to the US, but she declined to provide details. “First, we want to thank the Mexican authorities for all their help in bringing all these cartel leaders to justice,” Bondi said at a press conference at the time. “We are not going to comment on the details of any particular investigation, but under Donald Trump's leadership, we have brought more cartel leaders to justice than any other administration in the history of this country.”