Mexico asked US for Sinaloa Cartel’s Zambada: Tuesday’s mañanera recapped

Mexico’s petition for the extradition of alleged Sinaloa Cartel person Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada from the United States and the Mexican government’s quest for a woody that staves disconnected U.S. tariffs connected Mexican exports were among the issues discussed astatine President Claudia Sheinbaum’s Tuesday greeting property conference.

Security officials besides presented the government’s fortnightly information update. (See Mexico News Daily’s study here).

Security Minister Omar García Harfuch reported Tuesday that much than 13,000 radical person been arrested for high-impact crimes since Claudia Sheinbaum took bureau successful October. He besides said that Mexico’s caller bluish borderline enforcement programme has truthful acold resulted successful 54.9 kilograms of fentanyl and 1,200 amerciable weapons being confiscated. (Gustavo Alberto/Cuartoscuro)

Attorney General: US hasn’t responded to Mexico’s extradition request 

Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero responded to reporters’ questions astir Zambada, who is presently successful U.S. national custody successful New York connected cause trafficking charges and is reportedly seeking a plea woody that would let him to debar the decease penalty.

Gertz Manero said that his bureau requested Zambada’s extradition soon aft helium was arrested by U.S. authorities upon arriving astatine a New Mexico airdrome connected a backstage level past July.

Given that determination are 3 existent warrants for Zambada’s apprehension successful Mexico, the Mexican authorities had an “obligation” to question his extradition, Gertz said.

He said that the national Attorney General’s Office (FGR) “insisted” connected Zambada’s extradition connected 4 occasions but received nary effect from the medication of erstwhile U.S.  president Joe Biden.

Gertz’s remarks came 4 days aft Sheinbaum confirmed that the Mexican Consulate successful New York had received Zambada’s petition for repatriation.

Reporters besides asked national Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero if the United States has been shown to person been progressive successful Zambada’s arrest. (Gustavo Alberto/Cuartoscuro)

El Mayo alleges helium was kidnapped successful Culiacán past July and forced onto a level by different alleged Sinaloa Cartel leader, Joaquín Guzmán López, who besides traveled to the United States and was arrested successful New Mexico astatine the aforesaid time.

On Tuesday, Gertz noted that the FGR had opened an probe into the transgression of kidnapping successful transportation with Zambada’s departure from Mexico. He said Zambada near the state “against his will.”

No ‘direct proof’ of US engagement successful Zambada’s removal from Mexico 

Sheinbaum, similar her predecessor Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has asserted that the apprehension of Zambada successful the United States was the effect of a U.S. “operation” successful Mexico.

On Tuesday, a newsman asked Gertz whether determination was immoderate grounds of the engagement of U.S. agents successful Mexico.

“The enquiry is unfastened similar immoderate different enquiry … but with respect to what you refer, determination is nary nonstop proof,” the lawyer wide said.

Mexico continues to question woody to debar US tariffs 

A newsman asked Sheinbaum astir U.S. President Donald Trump’s declaration connected Monday that his planned 25% tariffs connected each Mexican and Canadian exports to the U.S. “are going up connected time, connected schedule,” meaning that the tariffs would instrumentality effect connected March 4 — the decision of a one-month suspension Sheinbaum negotiated with the U.S.

“You person to reappraisal everything that President Trump says. … I ever accidental you person to support a chill caput and not instrumentality isolated phrases [as gospel],” Sheinbaum said.

Sheinbaum noted that Trump besides spoke astir tariff “reciprocity” connected Monday.

President Sheinbaum seems to beryllium pinning her hopes for Mexico avoiding tariffs connected having a nonstop treatment with U.S. President Donald Trump to “close the agreement.” (Gustavo Alberto/Cuartoscuro)

“What helium states is that … if United States products upon entering Europe look a tax, a tariff, then, helium says, ‘in reciprocity, the United States is going to enforce a tariff’ [on goods from Europe],” she said, offering 1 illustration of Trump’s “Fair and Reciprocal Plan.”

“We don’t person immoderate tariffs betwixt the United States and Mexico. So if we spell connected the reciprocity issue, we’ll stay arsenic we are now,” she said.

At a associated property league with French President Emmanuel Macron connected Monday, Trump said that “all we privation is reciprocal.”

“We privation reciprocity, we privation to person the same. So, if idiosyncratic charges us, we complaint them. It’s precise simple,” helium said.

However, Trump besides said that the tariffs connected Mexico and Canada “will spell forward.”

Sheinbaum acknowledged that her authorities inactive needs to scope an statement with its U.S. counterpart to debar the broad tariffs taking effect adjacent week, as she did straight with Trump astatine the commencement of February.

“We are continuing to speech to them astir the contented of information and connected the contented of commercialized we person to adjacent the agreement,” she said, adding that she hoped to talk straight with Trump to seal the deal, perchance aboriginal successful the week.

By Mexico News Daily main unit writer Peter Davies ([email protected])