Mexico's president has taken the unusual step of issuing a public appeal to drug cartels not to fight each other, following last week's detention of top Mexican drug lord Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada and Joaquín Guzmán López.
This combo of images provided by the U.S. Department of State show Ismael El Mayo Zambada, a historic leader of Mexicos Sinaloa cartel, left, and Joaqun Guzmn Lpez, a son of another infamous cartel leader, after they were arrested by U.S. authorities in Texas, the U.S. Justice Department said Thursday, July 25, 2024.
Both Zambada and Guzmán's son played leading roles in the Sinaloa cartel, and both were detained Thursday when they arrived in Texas aboard a private airplane. López Obrador has a record of publicly appealing to drug gangs for peace, sometimes even praising them. The detention of Zambada and Guzmán López has proved a major embarrassment for the president, Mexican officials were forced to admit they knew nothing about the operation until it was all over.
But the Mexican president said nothing was known about how Zambada ended up on the flight, and that Mexican prosecutors were investigating to see if he was kidnapped.
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