US says El Chapo son surrendered but El Mayo taken against will from Mexico
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US ambassador to Mexico says no US resources were involved in the removal of El Mayo from Mexico to arrest in Texas.
The US ambassador to Mexico has acknowledged that drug lord Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada Garcia was brought to the United States against his will when he arrived in Texas in July on a plane along with fellow drug lord Joaquin Guzman Lopez, son of the infamous cartel kingpin “El Chapo”.
Zambada Garcia’s lawyer had earlier claimed that El Mayo, 76, the longtime chief of the Sinaloa drug cartel, had been kidnapped from Mexico by Guzman Lopez and six men in military uniforms who flew him to the US against his will.
US Ambassador Ken Salazar said on Friday that “the evidence we saw … is that they had brought El Mayo Zambada against his will”.
“This was an operation between cartels, where one turned the other one in,” Salazar said, adding that no US resources were involved in El Mayo being brought into the country.
The Guzman family lawyer has denied a kidnapping took place and called it a voluntary surrender after extended negotiations.
