El Chapo's son freed in exchange for El Mayo's kidnapping?
August 31, 2024


The mystery surrounding the violent kidnapping to the United States of Sinaloa drug lord Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada García (76) is growing. Because the Mexican Public Prosecutor’s Office has made a statement on Friday linking the release in the United States of a son (photo) of the life-sentenced “El Chapo” Guzmán and the kidnapping by plane of El Mayo to the US. Was the action the result of a deal between the Americans and the “Chapitos”, the sons of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán?

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El Chapo was sentenced to life in prison in the United States a few years ago. His sons took over some of the activities of the Sinaloa drug cartel.

“El Mayo” Zambada was Sinaloa's second man after El Chapo, and had been a fugitive for many years.

Within the Sinaloa cartel, there was growing tension between the “Chapitos”, the sons of El Chapo, and the clan around El Mayo.

El Paso
In mid-July there was the sensational news that El Mayo had been arrested at an airport near El Paso in the United States. Joaquín Guzmán Lopéz (38), one of El Chapo's sons, was also arrested by the Americans on that plane.

Then it came out, through a statement from “El Mayo” through his lawyer in the United States, that he had been kidnapped by force by Joaquín Guzmán Lopéz and put in handcuffs on the plane to El Paso. Earlier it had leaked out that Joaquín Guzmán had maintained contacts with the FBI for years.

This led to the suggestion that Joaquín Guzmán had struck a deal with the US authorities through the transfer of El Mayo.

A few days before El Mayo's arrival in the US, brother Ovidio Guzmán was released from pre-trial detention in the United States.

Joaquin Guzman Lopez
Proof
And now the Mexican Attorney General's Office has announced that it has evidence that the release of Ovidio Guzmán López in the United States is "related" to the arrest of Ismael "Mayo" Zambada. What kind of evidence that would be has not been disclosed.

Mexico's Attorney General's Office says it is unaware of Ovidio Guzmán's current whereabouts or status in the United States, where he was extradited in 2023 on charges of drug trafficking and money laundering.

Disagreement
Mexican media write that there would be great disagreement between the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and the United States, among other things about the kidnapping of El Mayo. That would have happened with the knowledge of the United States, while the Mexican government knew nothing about it.

https://www.crimesite.nl/zoon-el-chapo-vrij-in-ruil-voor-ontvoering-el-mayo/