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 Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, left, and Joaquín Guzmán López, 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.
“I trust that there will be no confrontations,” he said, despite the fact the army announced over the weekend that it had sent an additional 200 elite soldiers from a paratrooper unit to the state of Sinaloa just in case. “People who belong to organized crime behaved very well, in general, there were few acts of violence by these groups,” the president said at the time. “I think the white-collar criminals acted worse.”
Zambada’s lawyer pushed back Sunday against claims that his client was tricked into flying into the country, saying he was “forcibly kidnapped” by Guzmán López. If that were true, it could stoke accusations of betrayal, and additional fighting, between the factions. Frank Perez, Zambada’s attorney, said his client did not end up at the New Mexico airport of his own free will.
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