( Spanish) – The United States ambassador to Mexico, Ken Salazar, assured this Tuesday that his country has cooperated and delivered documents and information on the arrest of Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada in a timely manner, in response to prosecutor Alejandro Gertz Manero, who insisted on the alleged lack of information despite requests from Mexican authorities in the case.
Salazar showed documents during a press conference at the new headquarters of the United States embassy in Mexico that, he claims, are related to the communications that senior officials from both countries had in relation to Zambada’s arrest on the same day he arrived. to the United States, where he is now being tried.
“From the moment what happened on July 25 occurred, we have been in constant contact with the government of Mexico. (…) We are always there directly with the Government of Mexico. So, on July 25, which was a Thursday, that same day, we were in direct communication with the prosecutor. He also received calls and communications from other members of the cabinet in these days communications from the prosecutor [el secretario de Justicia Merrick] Garland with prosecutor Gertz,” Salazar explained while showing documents in hand.
The US ambassador added that through a letter sent on August 2 to Gertz Manero, his counterpart from the United States, Garland invited him to go to El Paso, Texas, to have more details of what happened upon arrival and details of the plane. in which Zambada and Joaquín Guzmán López, son of Chapo Guzmán, were transferred.
Earlier in the morning and during President Claudia Sheinbaum’s press conference, prosecutor Gertz Manero said that the United States government “has reported part, but another part is missing that is fundamental” about the plane trip and the entry of Zambada to US territory.
“No pilot on any plane can arrive at a United States border airport if he or she does not meet a series of requirements. These requirements are mandatory for everyone. That is what we are asking them for, why he arrived in a cloned plane and why the pilot was not arrested,” the prosecutor explained.
The president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, said this Monday in her morning press conference that she “continues the request” to the US Government to send information about Zambada’s arrest in July.
The president expressed herself in this way after releasing a report this Sunday from the Attorney General’s Office of Mexico on the discovery of forensic evidence that places the former rector of the Autonomous University of Sinaloa, Héctor Melesio Cuén Ojeda, on a farm at the time of his murder, something that had previously come to light in a letter in which Zambada, co-founder and leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, reported having been kidnapped and taken against his will to the United States to be handed over to the authorities of that country.
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