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US ambassador Ken Salazar rejected on Friday claims that his country was responsible for the cartel violence shaking Mexico’s Sinaloa state, after President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said the United States shared blame, local media reported.
“When it is said that the United States, we, are responsible for what is happening in Sinaloa, in other places, well, I do not agree with that,” Salazar said from Ciudad Juarez, according to Mexican media reports.
Lopez Obrador said Thursday that the United States shared blame for the cartel infighting that erupted following the dramatic July arrest of Sinaloa Cartel co-founder Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, who claimed he was kidnapped in Mexico and delivered into US custody against his will.
Zambada, 76, was detained along with Joaquin Guzman Lopez, a son of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, who is serving a life sentence in the United States.
Lopez Obrador said the United States bore some of the responsibility for the violence “for having carried out that operation” to arrest Zambada.
He said the arrest “produced the confrontation that is taking place in Sinaloa.”
Washington denies having planned his capture.
Salazar stressed that the administration of US President Joe Biden had worked hand-in-hand with the Mexican government to combat organized crime.
“It is incomprehensible how the United States can be responsible for the massacres we see in different places (in Mexico), that is not the fault of the United States,” Salazar was quoted as saying by Mexican media.
The violence, which has killed more than 40 people, is believed to pit gang members loyal to El Chapo and his sons against others aligned with Zambada, who pleaded not guilty to a raft of charges in a New York court last Friday.
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