The son of drug lord El Chapo is ready to tell US lawyers "everything he knows" about how corrupt Mexican officials are.

Last Friday, Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán's son, Ovidio Guzmán López, pleaded guilty to two charges of drug conspiracy and two counts of knowingly engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise in front of a Chicago federal judge.

The 35-year-old incarcerated chief, who commanded the Sinaloa Cartel's 'Los Chapitos' section, decided to collaborate with prosecutors who accused him of drug distribution and running a criminal operation.

Federal prosecutors in New York and Illinois claimed that Guzmán López and his three brothers took over control of the Sinaloa Cartel after El Chapo was arrested in Mexico in 2016 and extradited to the United States in 2019, where he is serving a life sentence in a Colorado supermaximum-security facility.

According to the accusations, the multinational drug trafficking organisation made hundreds of millions of dollars by exporting, manufacturing, and trafficking fentanyl to the United States.

Guzmán López's mea culpa might potentially open a Pandora's box regarding the Sinaloa Cartel's interactions with previous and present law enforcement and government officials in Mexico.

After leaving the courthouse, his well-known attorney, Jeffrey Lichtman, spoke to the media and attacked the Mexican government.

"It's not shocking that for 40 years, the Mexican government and law enforcement failed to apprehend the major drug dealer, possibly the largest in the world's history," he added.

Lichtman was talking about Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, who was a co-founder of the cartel with El Chapo and had never been apprehended until he was set up and flown across the border to Texas by El Chapo's incarcerated son, Joaquín Guzmán López, who then turned him in, and El Mayo was taken into custody.

According to the renowned criminal lawyer, "I would advise President Sheinbaum to consider her predecessors in the presidency and try to determine why that occurred and why there was never any attempt to make an arrest." "I have no idea whether Zambada has been charged in Mexico."

On Friday night, Lichtman seemed to take another jab at Sheinbaum for allegedly protecting criminal groups in an X post.

Lichtman, a lawyer with more than thirty years of expertise, has been retained by El Chapo to represent his two other sons, Iván Archivaldo and Jesús Alfredo Guzmán, who are also wanted by the U.S. government.

The collaboration between Ovidio and Joaquín may help the Mexican government restructure, Ray Donovan, a retired Drug Enforcement Administration agent and head of operations, told Dailymail.com.

According to Donovan, who overthrew El Chapo, "I believe that Mexico has an opportunity to reset with the potential that Ovidio, Joaquin, and others provide information on corrupt politicians and corrupt officials, and Sheinbaum is the president to do that."

One way to interpret this is either as "this is very good, very bad for her party," or as "I'm in control now, we want to be strong partners, and we want to take Mexico forward, not backwards."

"She has the chance to do that now." Now, I believe that she has done some significant acts. Additionally, he stated that she is obviously highly intelligent and unique among presidents. The positive thing about Claudia Sheinbaum is that, aside from her exceptional intelligence, I don't believe she has the corruption stigma that politicians sometimes have.

Thus, under her direction and in collaboration with the US, this is a chance to truly advance Mexico. Whether accusations are made against politicians, she is moving forward with specific actions, and I believe this will be fantastic. She is, in my opinion, a very significant leader in the Western Hemisphere. It's hardly the worst thing.

Just two months after U.S. federal agents met and escorted 17 members of his family, including his mother, sister, wife, and children, across the border at San Diego's San Ysidro Port of Entry, Ovidio Guzmán López decided to take responsibility for his misconduct in court last Friday.