Joaquín Guzmán Lópezone of the sons of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, Not only did he plead guilty this Monday to the drug trafficking charges of which he was accused in a Chicago court, but he also acknowledged having organized a movie operation to kidnap a person.
He did not mention the name of his victim but there is no doubt that it was Zambada because “El Mayo” described his kidnapping in a very similar way in a letter released weeks after being arrested in July 2024 by US authorities..
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The news of the double arrest and the alleged trap into which the boss who had been considered one of the most powerful figures in organized crime in Mexico fell, surprised the entire country and generated unrest in the government. of the then president Andrés Manuel López Obrador who feared that Washington was involved in the operation.
The US government distanced itself from the beginning from any involvement in the events.but the vast majority of experts considered It is almost impossible that an operation of this type could have been organized without the knowledge of the authorities of that country..
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According to prosecutor Andrew Erskine, Guzmán López wanted to obtain judicial benefits for himself or his brother Ovidio Guzmánboth accused of leading a faction of the Sinaloa Cartel, nicknamed “Los Chapitos”, that trafficked huge quantities of fentanyl to the United States. But he clarified that he would not receive benefits for this fact.
In a court document, Guzmán López declared that “the United States government did not request, induce, sanction, approve or tolerate the kidnapping.”.
These were the events according to Zambada
Zambada had explained in his letter from August 2024 that he was summoned by the son of “Chapo” to a meeting on the outskirts of Culiacán.the capital of Sinaloa, where another cartel leader and local politicians were supposedly located, one of whom was later found murdered.
He said there were “a large number of armed men in green military uniforms”who assumed they were gunmen from the sons of “El Chapo” but although they were a rival faction of the cartel – known as “Los Chapitos” – Zambada maintained a conversation with them and did not seem distrustful and followed Guzmán López to a dark room.
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According to the court document presented at Monday’s hearing, Multiple armed men under the orders of Guzmán López entered the room where they had taken their victim through a large window. They handcuffed him, covered his head and took him out the window.. Then they put him on his lap in the back seat of a van in which They took him to a take-off runway about 15 minutes from the site of the kidnapping where a private plane was waiting for them..
Once on the plane, Zambada was tied to one of the seats, according to Guzmán López’s story. Only the two drug traffickers and the pilot traveled on the aircraft.. Guzmán López then prepared him a drink with sedatives, of which he also drank a little.. The plane landed in New Mexico, next to the Texas border, where the two were detained.
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The operation generated discomfort from the government of then President López Obrador, who criticized the lack of information received from the US authorities..
In fact, instead of thanking the United States for the capture of Zambada—whose cartel has been sowing violence and terror in Mexico for decades—, The Attorney General’s Office announced shortly after the arrest that it was studying the possibility of filing treason charges against Guzmán López or any other person involved in the plot..
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The arrest of Zambada and Guzmán López generated a bloody battle for control of the cartel’s criminal business that still affects the state of Sinaloa despite the fact that current President Claudia Sheinbaum reinforced the presence of troops in the region.
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