Nothing that ‘El Mayo’ declares can affect us, says AMLO

Mexico City. What the co-founder of the Sinaloa cartel, Ismael The May Zambada’s ability to testify before the United States courts will not affect the government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

This morning the federal president himself emphasized this: “Nothing he says can affect us.”

In response to a question about the upcoming start of hearings in the process that will be followed in New York against the drug lord – who is in the custody of US authorities after being captured and/or detained last Thursday and transferred to El Paso, Texas, apparently for an alleged surrender with the son of his former partner, Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán—, the head of the Executive called for all information on the matter to be made transparent.

He stressed that his administration is still waiting for the information that Washington promised it would send regarding the alleged “delivery” of The May and Joaquin Guzman Lopez.

Regarding transparency and to ensure that there is no impunity, López Obrador said that the United States justice system must make known, in case the leader of the Sinaloa cartel so declares, whether there is a criminal association between that criminal organization and authorities not only from Mexico, but also from its northern neighbor.

“What links have they had with foreign agencies? Not to hide anything, absolutely nothing, just not to lie, not to point fingers, evidence, pointing fingers with evidence, and that no one is untouchable.”

He also asked the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE), Alicia Bárcena, to provide details of the request for information that the Foreign Ministry made to the Secretary of State of the White House, Antony Blinken, regarding the arrest of Zambada and Guzmán López.

In this regard, the foreign minister said: “We sent a communication to Antony Blinken asking him for specific information on the circumstances, the place where the plane took off, the registration of the plane, the name of the pilot, what the flight plan was and what type of dissemination, arrangement or if there was any prior knowledge of this operation.”

He added that once those details were requested, the Mexican government was awaiting Washington’s response.

“Yesterday I was informed that they are preparing this information, gathering the information.”