The United States Attorney General, Merrick Garland, announced this Thursday night the arrest of Ismael Zambada García, alias ‘The May’and Joaquin Guzman Lopez, son of drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzmanwho supposedly act as leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel.

“The Justice Department has taken other people into custody Two alleged leaders of the Sinaloa Cartelone of the most violent and powerful drug trafficking organizations in the world. Ismael Zambada García, or ‘El Mayo’, co-founder of the cartel, and Joaquín Guzmán López, son of its other co-founder, have been arrested today [en referencia a este jueves] in El Paso, Texas,” Garland said in a statement. In fact, that is where they were flying when the arrests were made.

The two alleged drug traffickers face numerous charges in the country for leading the organization’s operations, including the Creation and trafficking of fentanylwhich has become “the threat of deadliest drug that our country has ever faced.”

In that sense, Garland He has promised “not to rest” until “each and every cartel leader, member and associate responsible for the poisoning” of their communities is held accountable. It should be noted that these new arrests coincide with the Joe Biden’s withdrawal of the presidential race and the incorporation of Kamala Harris in her.

Therefore, this police operation could mean a plus in the Democratic Party’s election campaignin response to a speech by Republican candidate Donald Trump. The tycoon accuses Democrats of the lack of control on the border with Mexico, not only due to illegal migration but also due to fentanyl trafficking.

Following this, he stressed that ‘El Mayo’ and Guzmán López “join a growing list of leaders and associates of the Sinaloa cartel” who have been arrested by the US authorities, including ‘El Chapo’-at the time when Democrat Obama was passing the baton of the presidency to Republican Trump- and another of his sons and also alleged leader, Ovid Guzman Lopezas well as the alleged main hitman of the group, Néstor Isidro Pérez Salas, alias ‘The Nini’.

Despite boasting about the arrest of Ovidio Guzmán, the country’s Federal Bureau of Prisons page shows that he was released last tuesdayalthough there is no further information on this matter.

Ovid Guzman was extradited to the United States in mid-September from Mexico to be tried for trafficking of fentanyl, methamphetamine, cocaine and marijuanaHe was arrested on January 5 of the same year in Culiacán, Sinaloa, being the second time that federal forces had detained him. The first time was in October 2019, but he was released hours later by order of the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, to avoid an escalation of violence, such as attempts by the cartel to rescue him.