Emir Olivares and Néstor Jiménez
La Jornada newspaper
Wednesday, August 20, 2025, p. 4
“How do they explain that” do not negotiate with terrorists’? ” May Zambada, Capo of the Sinaloa Cartel, reaches an agreement with the justice of that country in exchange for information, when the Donald Trump administration designated “international terrorist organizations” to the drug cartels.
More than a year after the irregular subtraction of the co -founder of that cartel – realized at the end of July 2024 -, and given the possibility that the capo declares himself guilty in order to provide information and obtain benefits, the Mexican president reproached once again than Washington, on the one hand, he names “international terrorist organizations” to the crime groups, but on the other hand, but on the other hand.
He also indicated that the Government of Mexico continues to insist that of the United States to provide information about “how did it arrive?” Zambada to the custody of US authorities.
At the people’s conference, to a question about whether the dependencies of their government that negotiate with the White House have emphasized that these types of agreements are translated into “benefits” for criminals and for the United States, but not for Mexico, the chief of the Executive replied: “What we say, I have said it several times: they call ‘terrorist groups’ to organized crime, they decide to appoint them like this. It is a unilateral decision made by them. of President Trump to the United States government.
“And they are taking agreements with these members of what they call ‘terrorist groups’. How do they explain that they do not negotiate with terrorists’? Thus, plainly. That’s the first.”
Second, he added, Mexico receives any information that the US government has, “with evidence”, so that the Attorney General’s Office conduct investigations against these members of the linked cartels or accomplices, and requests an arrest warrant from the Judiciary.
“Whenever there is evidence we will collaborate, always, but there must be evidence. Because there is a history, such as that of General (Salvador) Cienfuegos (former head of the National Defense), we do not forget, in which a detention in the United States, and then, when President (Andrés Manuel) López Obrador, through the Prosecutor’s Office, asks for the evidence, sends them and there is no evidence.
“Therefore, we always say: collaboration, coordination, and always with evidence and always transparently,” he said.
