Mexican Foreign Minister Alicia Bárcena reported this Friday on the request for information made to her American counterpart, Antony Blinken, regarding Details of the plan to capture the famous drug trafficker Ismael Zambada, alias “El Mayo”“, who was arrested last week.
“We sent a communication to Antony Blinken asking for specific data,” Bárcena said during the morning press conference of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, in which she explained that she requested details about the plane that transported the drug trafficker, the aircraft’s registration number, takeoff location and the name of the pilot.
The Secretary of Foreign Affairs also explained that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had made arrangements to Find out if the United States had any kind of negotiation with the Sinaloa Cartelan organization to which “El Mayo” belongs.
Later, López Obrador responded that “everything has to be made transparent, how they have acted all this time, if there is a criminal association with authorities, which ones and what connection they have had with (U.S.) agencies.” on a possible statement by Zambada at his impending trial in the United States.
“El Mayo” was arrested on July 27 in El Paso, Texas (USA)after getting off a plane that took him there without the drug trafficker knowing about it, accompanied by Joaquín Guzmán López, one of the sons of “El Chapo” Guzmán, a former partner of Zambada already in custody in the North American country.
Zambada pleaded not guilty last week through his lawyer to the 14 crimes he is charged with.which include drug trafficking and money laundering charges, and stem from an indictment filed in 2012.
This Thursday, He appeared for a procedural hearing in El Paso where he only spoke once and that was to say “yes”in response to a question from the judge about possible “conflicts of interest” of his legal representation.
Ismael Zambada faces thirty charges in Texas for crimes related to drug trafficking and money laundering.
#Mexico #requests #detailed #information #capture #drug #trafficker
