It is strange that the Mexican government has not been close to the arrest of Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, it seems that the Sinaloa Cartel has been benefited during the current administration headed by Andrés Manuel López Obrador, considers the internationalist Fausto Pretelin.
“It is not conceivable that the Prosecutor’s Office has not set its sights on him knowing who “El Mayo” Zambada is. It seems that the United States distrusts Mexico and preferred to carry out an operation without warning,” considers Pretelin, in an interview with La Silla Rota.
The criminal group to which Ismael Zambada belongs, the Sinaloa Cartel, classified as one of the two most powerful in the country, he points out, would have benefited in this administration with a halt to the fight against these criminal organizations.
And it is that, for the expert, the Mexican State has lost control in certain geographic parts of the country, in some way ceding them to organized crime.
“For the past six years, the Mexican State has had greater control over the territory than it has now six years later over Mexican territory,” he explains.
For Fausto Pretelin, one of the current examples of this is the displacement of residents of Chiapas to Guatemala, victims of violence caused by organized crime groups.
In addition to the ineffectiveness of Mexican authorities in the pursuit and capture of Ismael Zambada, it is worth noting that the White House statement does not mention any cooperation with Mexico.
Fausto Pretelin reads this as an intervention by the United States to combat the powerful Sinaloa Cartel. “From this it follows that the work that Mexico has not done in the particular case of this group, of members of the Sinaloa Cartel, should have been done by the United States,” he maintains.
Pretelin highlights the lack of information in the capture of “El Mayo” and Joaquín Guzmán, and even observes this secrecy in Mexican authorities.
“The New York Times’ versions are that ‘El Mayo’ Zambada had been negotiating with United States authorities for 3 years and there are those who say that it was not like that, that it was totally surprising, we will have to wait, but it makes the Mexican Government look bad… You just have to see the Secretary of Security in the morning at a totally upset press conference, she seems to be somewhat nervous, because it leaves the Government in a bad position, the same for López Obrador, I think it was a message that there is not full confidence on the part of the United States.”
He believes that this arrest would be a boost for the governors and candidates of the party in office in the United States, after Joe Biden was criticized to the point of declining in his aspiration to be the Democratic candidate for the presidency of the neighboring country.
And he adds that the arrest or delivery of Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada to the United States leaves the Mexican government in a bad position, shows that he was not wanted by Mexican authorities and opens many doubts, explains the internationalist, Fausto Pretelin.
The probable surrender or capture of the Mexican drug trafficker and leader of the Sinaloa Cartel by US authorities is a failure for the current administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, says the specialist consulted by La Silla Rota.
“I think that this government was not forceful, that is to say, yesterday’s operation is very clear that the United States did the job that it did not know how to do and in that sense it is dangerous, because with good intentions you cannot control this group of criminals,” says analyst Pretelin, referring to the Sinaloa Cartel.
Source: lasillarota
