Zambada was taken ‘against his will’ while Joaquin Guzman Lopez ‘voluntarily surrendered,’ Ambassador Ken Salazar said at a news conference, two weeks after the Sinaloa cartel leaders landed in a private plane in the US state of New Mexico
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Mexican drug lord Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada was arrested in the United States after flying there “against his will” with a son of his former cartel partner, the US ambassador to Mexico said Friday.
Zambada was taken “against his will” while Joaquin Guzman Lopez “voluntarily surrendered,” Ambassador Ken Salazar said at a news conference, two weeks after the Sinaloa cartel leaders landed in a private plane in the US state of New Mexico.
“I want you to understand very clearly, there were no resources from the United States in this operation,” Salazar continued.
Salazar’s statement came hours after Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador complained “there is no cooperation” from Washington on clarifying the circumstances around the arrests of Zambada and Guzman.
“They have not given us sufficient information,” Lopez Obrador said at a press conference Friday.
Guzman’s father, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, co-founded the Sinaloa cartel in the 1990s with Zambada, and it has since risen to be one of the most powerful criminal operations in Mexico alongside the Jalisco New Generation cartel.
Zambada, 76, escaped arrest for much of his life and was the most wanted drug trafficker in the United States, with a $15 million reward offered for information that could lead to his arrest.
For his part, Guzman Lopez was extradited to Chicago where he pleaded “not guilty” to drug trafficking charges.
Spiraling criminal violence has seen more than 450,000 people murdered in Mexico since the government of then-president Felipe Calderon launched a military offensive against drug gangs in 2006.
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