The United States ambassador to the country detailed in a press conference that Joaquín Guzmán López, son of drug trafficker Joaquín ‘el Chapo’ Guzmán, Also imprisoned in the United States, he voluntarily surrendered to the authorities.
Meanwhile, he stated that Mayo Zambada showed signs of having been taken “against his will.”
“The evidence that we saw, when he (Mayo) arrived in Santa Teresa, in New Mexico, at the airport (last July 25), It is that Mayo had been taken like this against his will“, he commented.
The United States Ambassador has just confirmed that Joaquín Guzmán López voluntarily surrendered to the US: “El Mayo” Zambada, literally “fell from the sky”, was kidnapped and handed over against his will, which confirms a possible betrayal by his Godson pic.twitter.com/rP6ppxLpwv
— Blog del Narco Mexico (@blogdelnarcomx) August 10, 2024
Furthermore, while he maintained It was an operation between the cartels of drugs in Mexico, where one handed over the other, He highlighted the collaboration and pressure exerted jointly by the Governments of Mexico and the United States. against criminal organizations that operate on both sides of the border.
My statement regarding the findings regarding the custody of Ismael Zambada García “El Mayo” and Joaquín Guzmán López #SharedSecurity
— Ambassador Ken Salazar (@USAmbMex) August 9, 2024
“These two things are historic (both captures), but what happened would not have happened, If it had not been for the joint effort we have made with Mexico“, he emphasized.
He also thanked the Government of Mexico “for what it has done to create the conditions we are having in these successes”.
This Friday, the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, stated in his daily press conference that the US government “has not cooperated with information” on the arrests of these Mexican drug lords for more than two weeks.
Before them, Salazar clarified that the reports on their arrests have been shared with Mexico and specifically He said that “they have also been presented to the Mexican Prosecutor’s Office.”
“Joaquín Guzmán López turned himself in; Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada was taken against his will. It was an operation between cartels. The flight left from #Sinaloa”: @USAmbMexambassador of #USA in Mexico.
📹 @RalEstrella1 pic.twitter.com/iWZH5IvWJB— La Silla Rota (@lasillarota) August 9, 2024
The US ambassador insisted that in this operation No financial or human resources were allocated by the United States Government.
“There were no United States resources in that operation, It was not a US plane, it was not a US pilot.“It wasn’t our agents or our people in Mexico,” he explained.
He also shared that that flight was not planned and that the plane in which the leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel arrived departed from the state of Sinaloa, northwest of Mexico, the base of this criminal organization in the north of the country.
Salazar confessed that This action surprised the American authoritieswho he said, immediately contacted “colleagues” and “friends” in the Mexican government to carry out his process before the Justice Department in the USA.
Following his arrest, El Mayo Zambada pleaded not guilty through his lawyer to the 14 crimes he is accused of, which include drug trafficking and money laundering charges, and stem from an indictment filed in 2012 in the United States.
The co-founder of the Sinaloa Cartel He was arrested after getting off a plane that took him to the United States without the drug trafficker knowing about it, accompanied by one of Chapo Guzmán’s sons, a former partner of Zambada.
Last Thursday, he appeared for a procedural hearing in El Paso, Texas, where he only spoke once and It was to say “yes” in response to a question from the judge about possible “conflicts of interest” of his legal representation.
According to his lawyer, Zambada will be transferred from Texas to New York to face trial there.
Although the date on which the drug lord will be sent to New York has not yet been specified, it is known that there is There is already a pending charge against Zambada in the Eastern District of New York (Brooklyn), the same one where his former partner Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán was sentenced to life in prison.
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