MEXICO CITY — Mexican drug cartel leader Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada stated he was assailed and abducted when he idea he was going to fulfill the guv of the northern state of Sinaloa, then was taken versus his will to the United States, according to a letter launched Saturday by his legalrepresentative.
In the two-page letter, Zambada stated fellow drug lord Joaquín Guzmán López asked him to participatein a conference July 25 with regional politicalleaders, consistingof Sinaloa Gov. Rubén Rocha Moya, from the judgment Morena celebration.
But he was led into a space where he was knocked down, a hood was positioned over his head, he was handcuffed, and then taken in a pickup truck to a landing strip where he was required into a personal airplane that lastly took him and Guzmán López, one of the children of lockedup Sinaloa drug cartel leader Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, to U.S. soil, according to the letter.
Zambada’s remarks were launched a day after the U.S. ambassador to Mexico validated that the drug lord hadactually been taken to the United States versus his will, when he gothere in Texas in July on a airplane along with Guzmán López.
The letter raised concern about links inbetween drug traffickers and some politicalleaders in Sinaloa, the Pacific coast state that is the home base of the Sinaloa cartel, however the guv rejected any links to the lawbreakers and stated he was not in Sinaloa that day. After the arrests, he had stated he was in Los Angeles.
“There is no complicity with criminalactivity,” Rocha stated Saturday at an occasion in Culiacán alongwith Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and the nation’s president-elect, Claudia Sheinbaum.
“We have all the self-confidence in the guv,” López Obrador stated.
Referring to his competitors, Rocha stated, “They desire to make me a narco by force.”
“If they stated I was going to be there (at the conference), they lied, and if he (Zambada) thought them, he fell into the trap,” the guv stated.
Zambada’s letter didn’t state Rocha was at the conference location.
It did state that at the website was Héctor Melesio Cuén, a previous regional congressman, previous might