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Mexican authorities are contemplating bringing fees towards those that handed over the nation’s most-wanted drug lord and co-founder of the Sinaloa Cartel, Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada Garcia, to the U.S. final month.
On July 25, U.S. officers introduced that Zambada Garcia was taken into custody in El Paso, Texas, alongside Joaquín Guzmán López, the son of the cartel’s different co-founder, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.
Guzmán López flew to the U.S. to show himself in to U.S. authorities, however kidnapped Zambada Garcia earlier than leaving Mexico, forcing him onto the airplane, officers stated.
Instead of thanking the U.S. for apprehending Zambada Garcia — who’s liable for main a cartel that has terrorized and unfold violence throughout Mexico for many years — Mexican prosecutors are contemplating treason fees towards Guzmán López and anybody else concerned within the abduction.
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This combo of photos supplied by the U.S. Department of State exhibits Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, a historic chief of Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel, left, and Joaquín Guzmán López, a son of one other notorious cartel chief, after they had been arrested by U.S. authorities in Texas, the U.S. Justice Department stated Thursday, July 25, 2024. (U.S. Department of State through AP)
The Mexican lawyer common’s workplace introduced on Sunday it had opened a felony investigation “for the possible crimes of illegal flight, illicit use of airports, immigration and customs violations, kidnapping, treason, and any other crimes that may apply.”
The U.S. was providing a $15 million reward for the seize of Zambada Garcia, and Mexico’s response to the apprehension relies on the nation’s penal code that lays out jail sentences of as much as 40 years in jail for treason, the Associated Press reported.
The penal code article not solely contains conventional definitions of treason like attacking Mexico on behalf of a overseas energy or serving a overseas military, but additionally states treason is dedicated by anybody who illegally abducts “a person in Mexico in order to hand them over to authorities of another country.”
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Undated police handout image exhibits Ismael Zambada. (Procuraduria General de la Republica/Handout through Reuters)
The clause was added in response to the kidnapping of Mexican physician Humberto Machaín, who was kidnapped in Mexico in 1990 and handed over to the U.S. Machaín was needed for allegedly taking part within the 1985 torture and homicide of Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent Kiki Camarena.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador reportedly stated Monday he questioned the U.S. coverage of detaining drug cartel leaders, asking, “Why don’t they change that policy?”
Zambada Garcia’s lawyer, over the weekend, launched a letter from his shopper, claiming he was ambushed and kidnapped when he believed he was going to fulfill with the governor of Sinaloa. Instead, Zambada Garcia claimed, he was taken towards his will to the U.S.
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Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador offers his commonly scheduled morning press convention on the National Palace in Mexico City, Tuesday, April 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
Zambada Garcia additionally reportedly claimed within the letter that Guzmán López requested him to attend a gathering on July 25 with native politicians, however as a substitute, he was led to a room and knocked down earlier than a hood was positioned over his head. Zambada Garcia stated he was handcuffed, pushed to a touchdown strip in a pickup truck, and compelled into a non-public airplane that delivered him to U.S. soil.
In the letter, he raised questions concerning the hyperlinks between Sinaloa politicians and drug traffickers, although Gov. Richa Moya denies any hyperlinks to criminals and claimed he was not in Sinaloa on the day of the kidnapping. Instead, Moya reportedly stated he was in Los Angeles.
The lawyer common’s workplace has taken the case over from Sinaloa state prosecutors.
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Zambada Garcia has been charged in quite a few U.S. instances, together with one filed in February within the Eastern District of New York accusing him of conspiring to fabricate and distribute fentanyl. Prosecutors stated he led “one of the most violent and powerful drug trafficking organizations in the world.”
Now that Zambada Garcia is behind bars, specialists say many highly effective folks in Mexico shall be involved that in a bid for a extra comfy deal, he might cooperate with U.S. authorities and accuse them of collaborating with the cartels.
Fresh News’ Adam Shaw and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
