The US, complicit in drug traffickers and violence in Sinaloa: AMLO

The United States is co-responsible for the situation of confrontation and instability that exists in Sinaloa after the kidnapping and transfer to that country of the drug trafficker Ismael May Zambada without knowledge of Mexico, said President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

It is necessary that They begin to internalize that they cannot act like this, without taking into account the government of Mexico. There can be no cooperative relationship when unilateral measures are taken; that cannot be accepted.

In a conference, he emphasized that although this situation is being resolved, because it is not completely out of control, the violence unleashed has caused Mexican officers to be murdered due to this special and extraordinary situation, a situation generated after the agreement between the Department of Justice and one of the organized crime groups that operates in Sinaloa, without taking into account Mexico.

López Obrador stressed that the Attorney General’s Office has not received further information from Washington about Zambada’s capture, which was possible based on the agreement they reached without notifying Mexico. Even, he said, as part of that exchange, the status that one of the members of that organization had in a prison in the United States was modified (Ovidio Guzmán, son of Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán, whom he did not mention by name) and they took another character from this group (Joaquín Guzmán López), who arrived in US territory on the flight that took Zambada to El Paso.

It is not the same when the Mexican State intervenes in a completely irregular matter, that someone is kidnapped through an agreement and taken to the United States. That does not convince us and we are asking for information. What was the agreement and the cause?

He highlighted that the federal government has reinforced the presence of the armed forces in Sinaloa, as part of the special measures adopted to contain this situation that arose from the aforementioned pact.

–Is the United States co-responsible for the violence experienced in Sinaloa?

-Yes of course.

–For having conspired to make the arrests?

–For having carried out that operation.

The President considered that this action was to demonstrate that they are addressing the consumption of fentanyl in the United States, which causes 100,000 deaths a year, but just for propaganda. He wondered how much Zambada’s arrest contributes to reducing drug trafficking and the consumption of drugs.

He questioned the strategies to combat drug trafficking in the United States: “How are all these drugs distributed in the United States? How come we never know that there are famous cartels and bosses in the United States? We never know who they arrest (…), because we are talking about where most drugs are consumed in the world.

–Did the operation in which they arrested MayHow did the US government or agencies implement it?

–It cannot be correct, because they murdered people; It was totally illegal and they were waiting for the Lord Mayo agents of the Department of Justice. There was violence there, some people lost their lives, the former rector of the Autonomous University of Sinaloa.

To express question, he considered that the letter released by former Secretary of Public Security Genaro Garcia Luna is part of this environment that is being generated, because even though President Joe Biden has been respectful of Mexican sovereignty, not all officials of the Various authorities in the neighboring country act in harmony.

The agencies, especially the DEA, are the main source of information for the campaigns against me.he accused.