President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum criticized the United States for its lack of coordination with Mexico regarding the operation that led to the arrest of Ismael El Mayo Zambada and Joaquín Guzmán López, son of El Chapo Guzmán.
“What we can never accept is that there is no coordination, no collaboration. We are of course interested in building peace, in not having violence, we are also interested in not having fentanyl reach the United States, but they have to do the same in their country, we have to do the same in our country and coordinate,” he said.
In this way, Sheinbaum backed the statements of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who in his morning press conference this Thursday blamed the United States for the violence that has been unleashed for weeks in Culiacán, Sinaloa, following the operation where the co-founder of the Sinaloa cartel was handed over by El Chapo’s son on July 25, as the Mexican government has stated.
The next Head of State of Mexico also questioned the alleged negotiation between Washington and the faction of Los Chapitos, the sons of El Chapo, as shown by the change in the prison status of Ovidio Guzmán, another of the sons of the drug lord detained in that country, after the arrest of Zambada.
“I think that the important thing in the relationship with the United States, with the agencies, is that there is coordination. In this case, everything indicates that there was no coordination, but rather that there was action based on issues that have not been fully explained, such as the release of one drug lord to arrest another,” he added.
Regarding the attendance of Jill Biden, First Lady of the United States, at the inauguration on October 1, Claudia Sheinbaum expressed her satisfaction: “I am very happy that she is the one who is coming.”
|| With information from EFE ||