The daughter of the most powerful drug lord in the world has been returned to Mexico from the United States after pleading guilty to trying to sneak into the United States using someone else's visa.
Alejandrina Gisselle Guzman-Salazar, 31, claims to be eight months pregnant, and was trying to make it to Los Angeles in order to give birth there. She was apprehended at San Diego's San Ysidro port of entry on Oct. 12. After revealing her true identity and pleading guilty to fraud and misuse of visas, prosecutors dropped the charges and allowed her to return to Mexico.
"She's happy to be back in Mexico and out of custody to have her baby," Salazar's attorney, Guadalupe Valencia, said. "She's a doctor and will go back to her life before she was arrested."
Her father, Joaquin Guzman Loera, better known as "El Chapo Guzman," is considered "The most powerful drug trafficker in the world," by the United States Department of Treasury. He leads the Sinaloa cartel, which is named after the Pacific coast of Mexico and is believed to have smuggled 200 tons of cocaine and other drugs between 1990 and 2008.
El Chapo has been arrested before, but was able to escape due to his vast sums of money and influence. He has been on the run ever since, creating a myth that he is both everywhere and nowhere at once.
El Chapo ranks 63rd on Forbes' 2012 power list and he has an estimated $1 billion to his name.
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