The arrest occurs just three days after President Andrés Manuel López Obrador met with his counterpart Joe Biden, with whom, in addition to migration and inflation, he addressed the issue of security.
“We committed to deepen our cooperation to combat transnational criminal organizations that foment violence in both countries,” reads the joint statement issued by the governments of Mexico and the United States.
The arrest also occurs when the Secretary of Foreign Relations, Marcelo Ebrard, remains on a work tour in the United States.
The arrest of Cesar Duarte
However, this has not been the only “coincidence” in Mexican justice. Almost two years ago, while President Andrés Manuel López Obrador was in the United States, the former governor of Chihuahua, César Duarte, was arrested in Miami, Florida, United States.
Elements of the Federal Marshals Service (US Marshals Service) arrested the former governor in Mexico for embezzlement and criminal association.
When the arrest occurred, Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard was also in the United States as part of the visit he had made to meet with his then counterpart Donald Trump.
