Mexico Investigating Possible U.S. Violation in 2024 Capture of Infamous Cartel Leader: "Someone Lied"
Mexico is seeking U.S. records on the 2024 Zambada arrest after conflicting accounts from officials and an FBI museum display of the plane used.
- On Tuesday, President Claudia Sheinbaum announced an investigation into whether the United States violated Mexican sovereignty during the 2024 capture of drug lord Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada.
- While the U.S. Embassy previously denied agency participation, Joaquin Guzman Lopez admitted in a plea deal to kidnapping Zambada to win favor with American authorities.
- Sheinbaum asserted that unauthorized U.S. agency participation would violate international treaties and the Mexican constitution, stating, "If one of the US agencies participated in this operation, they would be violating international treaties and the constitution."
- Following Justice Department indictments against former Sinaloa governor Ruben Rocha Moya, Sheinbaum demanded Washington provide "irrefutable" evidence before considering any potential extradition.
- This diplomatic friction follows allegations of unauthorized CIA operations in Mexico, while Trump has repeatedly warned he would use military force if cartel activity is not curtailed.
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Mexico's Attorney General's Office stated that the kidnapping of Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada was the result of the collaboration agreement that Ovidio Guzmán reached with the U.S. justice system to become a protected witness.
At her morning conference yesterday, President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo said that “everything seems to indicate that former U.S. ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar (2021-2025) lied” about the capture of Ismael El Mayo Zambada, alleged leader of the Sinaloa cartel.
The Citizens' Movement (MC) bench in the Senate of the Republic censored the government's "incompetence" by allowing a plane to cross the border to transfer Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada and one of Joaquín's sons "El Chapo" Guzmán two years ago. "The alleged illegal operation of a US agency on Mexican territory is as unacceptable as the blindness (or complicity) of our security and intelligence institutions," said the chief of the bench, Clemente Cas…
Mexico probing if US violated sovereignty in 2024 druglord capture
The inquiry follows the FBI's display of the plane used to transport captured drug kingpin Ismael 'El Mayo' Zambada to the US, contradicting a US Embassy claim that no American agency was involved in the operation
Mexico reopened on Tuesday the controversy over the possible participation of the United States in the action that ended the arrest of the most elusive leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, after various media published that the plane in which the capo was transferred to U.S. territory two years ago has just been donated by the FBI to a museum as an example of one of its actions.
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