“There is no coincidence” in the dissemination of the letter from ‘El Mayo’: AMLO

Culiacan, Sin. In a direct allusion to the appearance this morning of the alleged testimony of the co-founder of the Sinaloa cartel, Ismael “The May” Zambada, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador asserted that “there is no coincidence” in the circumstances that have recently occurred.

“It turns out that we are here in Culiacán, so we are going to talk about the issue right away,” he emphasized when giving his support to the state governor, Rubén Rocha Moya, just as the virtual president-elect, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, had done previously.

The inauguration ceremony of an IMSS-Bienestar hospital in this capital was marked by the alleged declaration of The May Zambada. The president and his virtual successor were accompanied by Governor Rocha.

The head of the Executive stressed that although there are good relations with the United States government, “there is this temptation to want to rule everywhere, to stick one’s nose in everywhere.”

This morning, the alleged statement by Ismael Zambada was revealed, in which he allegedly stated that on July 25 he was taken against his will to the United States, after an alleged meeting with the governor of Sinaloa, Joaquín Guzmán López —son of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán— and the former rector of the Autonomous University of Tamaulipas, Héctor Melesio Cuén, who was murdered the same day the drug lords were arrested in Texas.

From here, a land stigmatized for being the birthplace of the Sinaloa cartel, the federal president congratulated the governor for coming forward and not letting a day go by to clarify the issue.

“We have full confidence in Governor Rubén Rocha Moya of Sinaloa, and I congratulate him because he stands up for himself, he didn’t let a day go by, because there is no such thing as a coincidence:

“Yesterday morning we were asking for information, at noon the United States ambassador (Ken Salazar) reported on the version they have of these events here in Sinaloa, and today this letter appears (from ‘El Mayo’). And it turns out that we are here in Culiacán, so we are going to talk about the issue right away. And how good that (Rocha) clarified what the situation is, where you were and that you were never invited to any event. It is as clear as water!” the president stressed.

He predicted that “they will not stop” because there is anger among conservatives in the country as well as in various sectors of Washington.

“It won’t stop, Chico Che says: ‘It won’t stop, my friend, it won’t stop.’ Listen to him, listen. Because they are upset, they don’t like the transformation, not those inside, the conservatives, nor some who were badly accustomed to feeling like they own the world. We have a very good relationship with the American people and with the governments of the United States, but there is this temptation to want to rule everywhere, to stick our noses in everywhere.”

In this sense, he stressed that Mexico is an independent, free and sovereign country. “Here we Mexicans rule. And perhaps before there were rulers who had no moral authority and who established relations of complicity with crime, whether with crime or with white-collar crime, then they could put any president of our country in the dock; but now things have changed, we have moral authority and we have political authority, and we apply, let it be heard loud and clear, a maxim: do not lie, do not steal and do not betray the people.”

Previously, the virtual president-elect expressed her support for the governor. “We will continue to support the governor of Sinaloa, Rubén Rocha Moya, and his people. Whoever wants to stigmatize this beautiful state should stick to its history.”

Sheinbaum said that the men and women of Sinaloa are good and hard-working.

“Most of the corn consumed in Mexico is produced here in Sinaloa, and we already know that without corn there is no country.”