“Char” for Borderland Beat
This article was translated and reposted from RIODOCE
AUGUST 6, 2024
Rosa Icela Rodríguez, head of the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (SSC), assured this Tuesday that the sons of Joaquín el Chapo Guzmán agreed with the US government to hand over Joaquín Guzmán López in order to give benefits to Ovidio, who is imprisoned in that country.
In “the United States there was an agreement between the people who are in prison with the people who are free, and there was an agreement between them, for the respective delivery, so that they would be delivered to the United States”, stated Icela Rodríguez during the press conference of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
She said that this is the information that has so far been shared with Mexico by the US government, while stressing that the capture of the members of the Sinaloa Cartel in the neighboring country to the north without the intervention of Mexican authorities.
“We care very much about emphasizing that part,” he noted.
“We want what is related to the arrival of the flight, the arrival of this delivery or capture, but in an official way,” he added
“But we believe that it is not the total amount of information as we would like,” he pointed out.
For his part, President López Obrador said that this is a delicate issue because the Sinaloa Cartel is one of the groups with the most fame and tradition of illicit activity for a long time.
“We do not want a decision that was made in this sense, this agreement or non-agreement, to generate a greater internal conflict, because we have to take care of the lives of all Mexicans. So we do not want to speculate, we are going to act based on the information,” he said.
However, it is still unknown how Ismael el Mayo Zambada was apprehended along with El Chapito on July 25 at an airport in El Paso, Texas, United States.