Mexico

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Wednesday that she would ask the United States to share the $ 15 billion that she hopes to extract from the Mexican drug trafficker ismael “El Mayo” Zambada with the poor of their country.

Sinaloa Drug Cartel Co-Founder Zambada He declared himself guilty In a New York court on Monday to kill and drug trafficking, particularly fentanilo, a powerful narcotic responsible for tens of thousands of deaths due to overdose annually.

When declaring himself guilty, the 77 -year -old man avoided the possibility of the death penalty, but still faces life imprisonment at a sentence hearing owed on a later date.

As part of the agreement, Zambada, who had initially declared innocent, agreed to lose $ 15 billion in bad profits obtained.

Going to his regular morning press conference, Sheinbaum said: “If the United States government recovered resources, then we would ask that Mexico be given to the poorest people.”

The fall of Zambada, which follows that of the founder of Cartel de Sinaloa, Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, already fulfilling life imprisonment in the United States, has led speculations that the days of the poster are counted.

The Secretary of Security of Mexico, Omar García Harfuch, insisted on Wednesday, however, that although some of the features of the poster decreased, the organization was far from finishing.

The poster, which Washington has declared a terrorist group, is considered the largest drug trafficking organization in the world.

It works on both sides of the border between the United States and Mexico.

Ruthless poster led by Zambada

Looking for by the United States Police for more than two decades, Zambada was arrested in July 2024 after reaching a private plane at a Texas airport with Guzmán’s son, Joaquín Guzmán López.

Zambada has said that he was kidnapped In Mexico and taken to the United States by Guzmán López, whose lawyer denies those statements.

According to prosecutors, Zambada presided over a vast and violent operation, with an arsenal of military grade weapons, a private security force similar to an army and a body of “hitmen”, or attending the attendees, who carried out murders, kidnappings and torture. Only a few months before his arrest, he ordered the murder of his own nephew, prosecutors said.

On August 5, prosecutors said in a letter that Attorney General Pam Bondi had directed them Do not pursue the death penalty For Zambada.

After the arrests of July and the accusations of kidnapping of Zambada, The horrible fight broke out In Mexico, between a faction of loyal poster to him and another tied to the “Chapitos”, the children of Guzmán.

American prosecutors say that Chapitos are known for Torture to your rivals while some of their victims were “feeding dead or lives to the tigers.”

Earl this month, Mexico sent 26 high -ranking poster figures To the United States in the last important agreement with the Trump administration while US authorities increase pressure on criminal smuggling networks on the border.

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