The Mexican president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obradorsaid this Thursday that USA “is jointly responsible” for the current drug trafficking violence in Sinaloaa state in the northwest of the country with more than 40 murders in the last two weeks after the capture of the drug lord Ismael ‘The May’ Zambada.
“Yes, of course (it is co-responsible) USA), for having carried out that operation (against Zambada). No (it affects the bilateral relationship), it’s just that they internalize that you can’t act like that, without taking into account the Government of Mexico“, he responded to a direct question during his morning press conference.
The Mexican ruler attributed the internal struggle of Sinaloa Cartel between the factions of The Chapitos y The Mayos to the agreement of Joaquin Guzman Lopezone of the sons of Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzmanto deliver the Zambada in USA On July 25th on a plane that landed near The Step, Texas.
Lopez Obrador talks about the operation to capture Zambada
Lopez Obrador He stated that the operation of USA to capture the Zambada “It can’t be right because they killed people, it was totally illegal and they were waiting for Mr.Mayo‘ agents of the Department of Justice (of EU)”.
He denounced that “there was an arrangement, and due to that arrangement” with Washingtonwas “produced” in “Sinaloa the confrontation that is taking place.”
“That requires an explanation, because if we are now facing Sinaloa a situation of instability, of confrontation, is due to the fact that (in USA) made that decision, and we do not agree that it should be ignored. Mexico because this is where we have the problem,” he said.
The president assured that the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) has not yet “received all the information on this matter.”
But he stressed that the FGR knows that the United States Department of Justice “had agreements” with “one of the criminal groups in Sinaloa”, which is reflected in the change in the prison status of Ovid Guzmananother of the sons of ‘Chapo‘ detained in that country.
He also considered the violence in Sinaloa to be a “special, extraordinary situation” “because it is not the same when the Mexican State intervenes as when a completely irregular situation occurs, such as when someone is kidnapped through an agreement and taken to the United States.”
“Sure, we are facing it, we are solving it, but in Sinaloa There was not the violence that there is now, nor is it as it is thought to be, that it is completely out of control,” he argued.
The Government of Lopez Obrador has received criticism for its response to violence in Sinaloa because the president and the Army have suggested that the end of the shootings “depends” on the drug trafficking groups stopping fighting each other. EFE
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