US President Joe Biden boasted on Friday of the arrest of one of the co-founders of the Sinaloa cartel and a son of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, who will appear before the court “in the coming days.”
It’s a statement, Biden praised the work of the officers who arrested “Two of the most notorious leaders of the Sinaloa cartel, one of the deadliest corporations in the world”.
This is Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, 76, the elusive drug trafficker and co-founder of the cartel, who had never been arrested.
The anti-drug agency of USA (DEA) was offering 15 million dollars for any information that would lead to the arrest of this historic leader about whom narcocorridos, songs that recount the life of drug lords, abound.
The other is Joaquin Guzman Lopeza thirty-something son of the famous drug trafficker “El Chapo” Guzmán.
Mexico claims it did not participate in the operation. At his morning press conference, its president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, asked Washington to “a complete report” because “There must be transparency”.
The two detainees will appear before “a federal court in the coming days“We are doing this for the people of the United States,” said US Attorney General Merrick Garland in a video released on Friday.
“El Mayo” faces charges for “fentanyl traffickingmoney laundering, firearms crimes, kidnapping and conspiracy to commit murder” and Guzman Lopez for “trafficking in large quantities of cocaineheroin and methamphetamineamong other drugs“, he says.
Broken families
“Too many citizens have lost their lives to the scourge of fentanyl. Too many families have been broken and suffering because of this destructive drug.“Biden lamented.
This synthetic opioid, 50 times more potent than heroin, caused more than 70,000 deaths from overdose in the United States in 2023, according to official data.
The arrest of drug traffickers It took place at an airport in El Paso, Texas, in circumstances about which no official details have been given.
U.S. media outlets, citing police sources, say that López Guzmán convinced “El Mayo” to travel with him under false pretenses. The plane was supposed to land in northern Mexico, but continued on to the United States.
According to a DEA report published last May, “Los Chapitos,” as “El Chapo’s” sons are known, are free from “an internal battle against his father’s former partner, Ismael Zambada García”, involved in the drug traffic since the 1970s.
“He is not in good health, which calls into question the leadership of his faction.“, the agency adds about “El Mayo”.
In May, gunmen ambushed and killed Eliseo Imperial Castro, alias “Cheyo” Ántrax, who was the nephew of “El Mayo.”
USA accuses the Sinaloa cartel to manufacture “mass” fentanyl in clandestine laboratories in Mexico with chemical substances originating mainly from China.
“They have partners in the United States to distribute drugs at retail prices on the streets and on social networks.” and “They use Chinese organizations to transfer their profits“to Mexico and for money laundering, according to Anne Milgram, director of the DEA.
“El Mayo” and Guzmán López join a list of leaders and partners of the Sinaloa Cartel in the hands of the United States, especially “El Chapo”, who is serving a life sentence, as well as another of his sons, Ovidio Guzmán, and one of the organization’s main hitmen, Néstor Isidro Pérez, alias “Nini”.
Source: Gestion
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