‘El Mayo’ arrived in the US against his will, says Salazar

Mexico City. The United States ambassador to Mexico, Ken Salazar, revealed that Ismael The May Zambada He was taken against his will to the American Union, in accordance with the evidence at the time of arrivaland that Joaquin Guzman Lopez, son of Joaquin El Chapo Guzmán voluntarily surrendered to his country’s government. He also specified that no resources from Washington were used in his capture.

In a press conference – which was called yesterday with less than an hour’s notice, so many media outlets were unable to attend – the diplomat stressed that the fact that both alleged drug traffickers are in custody represents a major blow to curbing the trafficking of synthetic drugs, such as fentanyl and its precursors.

Salazar emphasized that No U.S. resources were used in the surrender. It was not our plane, nor our pilot, nor our people, and no flight plan was filed. before the authorities of his country. We understand that the flight departed from Sinaloa and landed in Santa Teresa, New Mexico. The pilot was not an employee or contracted by the U.S. government, and is not a U.S. citizen.the diplomat stressed. In the morning, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador had asked several questions on the subject.

In addition to the arrests of Guzmán López and Zambada, Salazar said, there are others, such as Rafael Caro Quintero, Ovidio The Mouse Guzman and Nestor Isidro Perez, The Nini. The above, he stressed on several occasions, has been done in cooperation with the Mexican government and with respect for its sovereignty.

Salazar’s press conference was called hours after López Obrador lamented in his morning conference yesterday that There is no cooperation from the United States government Regarding the transfer and capture of Zambada and Guzmán López in the United States, the information they have given to Mexico is insufficient, very elementary, very general.

Questioned about these statements by the Mexican president, the ambassador said that the United States government has been in constant communication with his Mexican counterparts. He said that on Tuesday of this week I personally went to El Paso (Texas), with the special unit sent by the Attorney General’s Office to see the evidence, the planewhere Guzmán and Zambada arrived.

Meeting every two weeks with Rosa Icela Rodríguez

In response to the media’s insistence on the subject, Salazar stated: We have presented this information to the Mexican government, to the prosecutor’s office. They must do their own investigation and we are going to cooperate with that. Every two weeks I am in meetings with the prosecutor’s office and with (the head of the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection), Rosa Icela Rodríguez, sharing the information, as partners do..

Yesterday, López Obrador asked several questions on the subject during his morning press conference, some of which were answered hours later by Salazar. What happened to the pilot? What did they do with the pilot? Who was he? And of course, where did the plane come from? We want to know more about the negotiation. If it was an agreement or how Mr. Zambada’s lawyer came to declare that he had been arrested. We want to know all this well.the president emphasized.