The United States managed to arrest Mexico’s most-wanted drug lord, but Mexican prosecutors — and the president — now say they are considering bringing treason charges against those who handed him over.
This image provided by the U.S. Department of State shows Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, a historic leader of Mexico ’s Sinaloa cartel. Zambada and Joaquín Guzmán López, a son of another infamous cartel leader, were arrested by U.S. authorities in Texas, the U.S. Justice Department said Thursday, July 25, 2024. , but Mexican prosecutors — and the president — now say they are considering bringing treason charges against those who handed him over.
Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office said late Sunday it had opened a criminal 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.”Their job was saving lives. They lost their own in Brazil’s horrifying plane crashThe odd response to the capture of a drug trafficker who had a $15 million U.S.
The doctor, Humberto Machaín, was kidnapped in Mexico in 1990 and handed over to U.S. authorities, angering Mexico.In fact, he said Monday he questioned the U.S. policy of detaining drug cartel leaders, asking “why don’t they change that policy?” Over the weekend, Zambada’s lawyer released a letter from his client saying he was ambushed and kidnapped when he thought he was going to meet the governor of the northern state of Sinaloa, then was taken against his will to the United States.
The letter raised questions about links between drug traffickers and some politicians in Sinaloa, the Pacific coast state that is the home base of the Sinaloa cartel, but Gov. Richa Moya denied any links to the criminals and said he was not in Sinaloa that day. After the arrests, he had said he was in Los Angeles.
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