El Mayo Zambada demands repatriation to Mexico: Friday’s mañanera recapped

A missive to the national authorities from accused cause baron Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada and the combat against organized transgression were among the issues President Claudia Sheinbaum spoke astir astatine her Friday greeting property conference.

Here is simply a recap of the president’s past mañanera of the week.

El Mayo demands repatriation; FGR reviewing the request 

A newsman from the Reforma paper noted that a ineligible advisor of Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada submitted a missive to the Mexican Consulate successful New York successful which the alleged Sinaloa Cartel person demands that the Mexican authorities “immediately” petition his repatriation.

Zambada was arrested astatine an airdrome successful New Mexico past July aft flying into the United States connected a backstage level with Joaquín Guzmán López, 1 of the sons of imprisoned cause lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán. El Mayo, who is presently successful custody successful New York, claims helium was kidnapped by Guzmán López and forced onto the plane.

On Friday morning, Sheinbaum confirmed that the Mexican Consulate successful New York received Zambada’s petition for repatriation.

She said that the Federal Attorney General’s Office (FGR) has an unfastened record connected the alleged cause trafficker’s apprehension and that her medication and the autarkic FGR would reappraisal his request.

Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, the alleged cofounder of the Sinaloa Cartel, was arrested successful New Mexico successful July 2024. (Cuartoscuro)

“Beyond the idiosyncratic that is making the request” and “his crimes,” the contented astatine involvement is the mode successful which his apprehension occurred, said Sheinbaum. The president has accused the United States authorities of engagement successful a crippled to kidnap Zambada.

“The lawyer wide [Alejandro Gertz Manero] already has an unfastened record successful this sense,” she said.

“If you similar connected Tuesday, the time of the [government] information report, helium tin archer america what advancement has been made, what accusation has been requested from the United States authorities and what comes adjacent successful this case,” Sheinbaum said.

Asked whether the Mexican authorities would record “a ceremonial protestation owed to the usurpation of the pact that prevents cross-border kidnappings,” the president said her medication would look into that possibility.

“I repeat, beyond this idiosyncratic and the crimes helium has committed, the contented is the rights of a Mexican national facing proceedings determination [in the United States],” Sheinbaum said.

“… Let’s accidental that it was different person. … Any national who is wanted successful the United States and is taken to the United States without immoderate information of the Mexican government. … Let’s accidental it’s a renowned citizen, whoever it whitethorn beryllium … he’s taken determination [against his will] and enactment connected proceedings facing the decease penalty,” she said.

“So determination is an contented successful [Zambada’s] missive … that has to bash with sovereignty,” said Sheinbaum, who connected Thursday responded to the United States’ designation of six Mexican cartels arsenic overseas violent organizations by announcing she was sending a law betterment connection to Congress to bolster the extortion of Mexico’s sovereignty.

One of the astir impactful moments of Friday’s property league came erstwhile a Reforma newsman asked the president astir accused cause lord El Mayo Zambada’s repatriation request. (Presidencia)

“… The Attorney General’s Office has worked connected this contented a batch and we’re going to reappraisal [the repatriation request] with the lawyer general,” she said.

In his missive — which was seen by Reforma — Zambada said that the Mexican authorities indispensable “immediately” petition his repatriation due to the fact that his transportation to the United States was “illegal.”

“… Any ineligible process against maine indispensable beryllium carried retired successful Mexico successful accordance with nationalist laws and existent planetary agreements,” helium wrote.

Zambada said that the Mexican authorities “must intervene truthful that the contiguous substance doesn’t effect successful a illness of the bilateral relation.”

“… The irregular and amerciable mode successful which the undersigned was placed astatine the disposal of the United States authorities should not beryllium overlooked,” helium wrote.

Zambada, who faces cause trafficking, wealth laundering and weapons charges, asserted that “the United States lacks legitimacy to enforce connected maine a punishment arsenic superior arsenic the decease penalty.”

Zambada alleged that helium was kidnapped from Mexico and forced onto a tiny level that brought him to the U.S., wherever DEA agents were waiting to apprehension him. (@beltrandelrio/X)

“… The United States failed to fulfill its work to verify the legality of my entry,” helium wrote.

“… The Mexican authorities has the work to intervene and request ceremonial guarantees that the decease punishment won’t beryllium enforced connected me,” Zambada said.

“… If the authorities of Mexico doesn’t act, the undersigned volition beryllium sentenced to the decease punishment without immoderate uncertainty and this volition represent a unsafe precedent that would let immoderate overseas authorities astatine immoderate clip to interruption our territory and sovereignty with impunity, intervening for the apprehension of immoderate person, adjacent politicians oregon authorities officials, successful bid to transportation them to the United States jurisdiction,” helium wrote.

“… I request that the Mexican authorities comply with its inescapable work to instantly and forcefully intervene … to formally request of the United States absolute, full, binding and irrevocable guarantees and certainty that the decease punishment won’t beryllium enforced connected maine successful their jurisdiction. This request is not optional,” Zambada said.

Asked whether Zambada’s lawsuit could origin the Mexico-U.S. narration to “collapse” — arsenic El Mayo claimed it could — Sheinbaum said “that is different issue” and “I don’t judge so.”

Sheinbaum responds to US Embassy’s designation of Mexico’s ‘blows against organized crime!’

A newsman noted that the United States Embassy successful Mexico congratulated the national authorities for its caller “blows against organized crime,” among which are the arrests of 2 cardinal operatives of the Sinaloa Cartel successful Culiacán this week.

The U.S. Embassy shared an X station by national information curate Omar García Harfuch announcing the apprehension of 1 of those operatives, Kevin Alonso Gil Acosta, aka El “200.”

🚓👏 ¡Felicitaciones por los golpes contra el crimen organizado!
Cuando las instituciones colaboran entre sí, se fortalece la seguridad de ambos países. Enhorabuena 🙌 https://t.co/4pjR7QlKyx

— Embajada EU en Mex (@USEmbassyMEX) February 21, 2025

“Congratulations for the blows against organized crime! When institutions collaborate with each other, the information of some countries is strengthened,” the embassy said.

Asked what she thought astir the United States’ designation of Mexico’s information efforts, Sheinbaum declared that what her authorities seeks is “the designation of the radical of Mexico.”

“[Recognition] of the enactment we do,” she added.

“… What we bash is owed to condemnation and determination, peculiarly connected the contented of security,” Sheinbaum said.

“… What we privation is the extortion of citizens, what we privation is for cipher to beryllium acrophobic to spell retired to the street. That is our objective,” she said.

Mexico is presently nether unit from the United States to bash much to combat transgression organizations and the northward travel of narcotics and migrants.

Facing unit from the U.S., Mexico has deployed thousands of troops to the U.S. borderline region. (Elizabeth Ruiz/Cuartoscuro)

The U.S. authorities has accused the Mexican authorities of having an “intolerable alliance” with cause trafficking organizations and providing “safe havens for the cartels to prosecute successful the manufacturing and proscription of unsafe narcotics.”

U.S. President Donald Trump pledged to enforce 25% tariffs connected each Mexican exports to the United States and support them successful spot “until specified clip arsenic Drugs, successful peculiar Fentanyl, and each Illegal Aliens halt this Invasion of our Country!”

The projected tariffs are currently connected intermission acknowledgment to an statement betwixt Trump and Sheinbaum, but they could instrumentality effect successful aboriginal March.

Sheinbaum said Friday that the government’s caller information strategy is “providing results and volition proceed providing results.”

García Harfuch said past week that 11,600 radical had been arrested for “high-impact crimes” specified arsenic murder, kidnapping, equipped robbery and extortion since the caller authorities took bureau connected Oct. 1.

He besides said that authorities had seized much than 100 tonnes of drugs, including large quantities of fentanyl, confiscated implicit 5,000 firearms and dismantled astir 200 clandestine laboratories wherever methamphetamine was being made.