He U.S. government He assured his Mexican counterpart that he knew, until the last moment, that Joaquín Guzmán López, son of Chapo Guzmán, would surrender last Thursday and would put Ismael Zambada García on a silver platter, May, co-founder of Sinaloa Cartel.
In a letter sent on Saturday, July 27, and released yesterday by the Mexican government, the administration of President Joe Biden He explained that the flight that took Guzmán López and Zambada García to the United States was not planned by any U.S. government agency.
The letter was read yesterday by Rosa Icela Rodríguez, head of the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC), during the morning press conference of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
In the letter, which consists of seven points and was delivered through the American Embassy In Mexico, the Joe Biden government made a report of the arrest in aSanta Teresa County Airport, New Mexico.
The letter recalls that on several previous occasions US law enforcement agencies were informed that the son of the Chapo Guzman He considered surrendering to the authorities of that country, which never happened.
He explained that it was not until July 25, at 10:30 a.m., when they were informed that Guzman Lopez He was considering surrendering that same day in the United States, where he would arrive on a private flight, and four hours later, at 2:35 p.m., they were notified that Guzmán López was already flying on a plane that took off from Mexico to surrender.
“U.S. law enforcement authorities had no advance notice of this flight and had no independent confirmation that Guzmán López was, in fact, on the flight,” the letter notes.
The letter adds that five minutes later, at 2:40 p.m., once the aircraft was already in the air, it was confirmed that Ismael Zambada could be on the plane, although there was no independent confirmation that this was true.
Finally, at 4:24 p.m., the plane from Mexico landed in the United States. “The flight itself was not planned by US government agency “any,” the Biden administration said. It added that after the drug lords were arrested and their identities confirmed, the Mexican government was informed.
Secretary Rodriguez ruled out that the action involved the Government of Mexico and announced that the General Prosecutor of the Republic An investigation has already been opened into crimes that may have occurred during the transfer of the drug lords, and to determine the origin and destination of the aircraft in which they travelled, as well as the circumstances of time and place of the transfer.
“The Mexican government requested the United States Department of Justice an official report of the conduct in Mexican territory, as well as flight plans and circumstances of time, manner and place of each event,” the official reported.
