Hernández Links Reported Visa Action to Chapitos Claims

Reporting and context

Noticias PV reports that investigative journalist Anabel Hernández linked the reported cancellation of Andrés Manuel López Beltrán’s U.S. visa to what she described as high-level criminal investigations. In an interview with Carmen Aristegui, Hernández said former members of López Beltrán’s team had told her they witnessed meetings involving him and Iván, Alfredo, Ovidio and Joaquín Guzmán López, figures associated in the report with Los Chapitos faction.

Hernández also said cooperation by Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada and the Guzmán López brothers with U.S. authorities had supplied information relevant to the visa decision. The Noticias PV report says she connected those assertions to a broader account of alleged organized-crime penetration in the Morena party and cited past statements by Sergio Villarreal Barragán, known as “El Grande.”

The outlet presents these as Hernández’s claims and analysis from the interview. The source text does not include a U.S. State Department statement confirming the stated reason for any visa action, and it provides no court record establishing the allegations described in the report.