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Mexico questions FBI domiciled successful Sinaloa Cartel abduction
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum powerfully criticizes nan U.S. authorities for its alleged engagement successful nan 2024 abduction of erstwhile Sinaloa Cartel leader 'El Mayo' Zambada. Sheinbaum explicitly states nan U.S. lied astir its participation, claiming a usurpation of Mexican sovereignty. This incident raises superior questions astir negotiated relations betwixt nan 2 nations and American involution successful Mexico.
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Sinaloa Cartel co-founder Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada Garcia, of Mexico, was sentenced connected Monday to life successful a U.S. situation and ordered to forfeit $15 cardinal successful drug trafficking profits, according to nan U.S. Department of Justice.
U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan said that while he had nary prime but to springiness a life condemnation since nan charges carried a mandatory word of life imprisonment, he believed it was nan correct punishment.
"The almost unimaginable magnitude of narcotics attributable to him and nan number of murders that we tin archive is capable to warrant Congress's determination to make this a mandatory life sentence," nan judge said.
He is 1 of nan astir high-profile Mexican supplier traffickers to beryllium sentenced by a U.S. judge since chap Sinaloa leader Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was sentenced to life successful situation successful 2019.
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A photograph of erstwhile Sinaloa Cartel leader Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada Garcia being detained by national agents is displayed adjacent to a Beechcraft King Air aircraft, utilized successful July 2024 to carrier Garcia and Joaquin Guzman Lopez, nan boy of notorious narco leader "El Chapo" Guzman, to nan U.S., astatine nan War Eagles Air Museum, successful Santa Teresa, New Mexico. (REUTERS/Paul Ratje)
Garcia, 76, agreed to plead blameworthy successful August 2025 to aggregate charges, including racketeering conspiracy and continuing criminal enterprise, aft nan DOJ said it would not prosecute nan decease penalty.
He was arrested successful July 2024 alongside Joaquin Guzman Lopez, 1 of Guzman's sons, aft their level landed successful nan U.S. Guzman Lopez has since pleaded blameworthy to aggregate charges, including supplier trafficking and a July 2024 kidnapping.
Joseph Nocella, a national prosecutor, told reporters aft Garcia's sentencing that Guzman Lopez had admitted to kidnapping Garcia successful an effort to unafraid leniency and in installments from U.S. rule enforcement.
A reward motion for erstwhile Sinaloa Cartel leader Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada Garcia opinionated adjacent to a Beechcraft King Air aircraft, utilized successful July 2024 to carrier Garcia and Joaquin Guzman Lopez, nan boy of notorious narco leader "El Chapo" Guzman, astatine nan War Eagles Air Museum successful Santa Teresa, New Mexico. (REUTERS/Paul Ratje)
"The United States made perfectly clear that we do not condone kidnapping and that he would person nary credit," Nocella said.
Guzman Lopez has not yet been sentenced.
Garcia told nan tribunal during his sentencing connected Monday that he took work for nan harm he had caused.
"No 1 wins successful a warfare for illustration this. To nan adjacent generation, I say, take a different path," he said.
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Cogan suggested that Garcia beryllium placed successful a installation wherever he would person capable aesculapian attraction since he was suffering from respective progressive wellness ailments.
"Ismael Zambada Garcia spent astir 4 decades poisoning American communities to make billions of dollars successful profit and ordering nan murders of anyone who stood successful his way. Today, that section closes for good," Nocella said successful a statement.
Sinaloa Cartel co-founder Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada Garcia was sentenced to life successful a U.S. prison. (REUTERS/Gustavo Graf)
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"He will walk nan remainder of his life successful a U.S. prison, precisely wherever he belongs," he added. This condemnation was made imaginable by nan tireless bilateral practice betwixt U.S. and Mexican rule enforcement, who refused to fto El Mayo's years of evading justness go a imperishable authorities of affairs. We dream that today's condemnation brings immoderate measurement of justness to nan countless victims of nan Sinaloa Cartel's narcotics trafficking and violence."
Reuters contributed to this report.
