Pact was obvious
When the top leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel were handed over to the United States to be tried in American courts, the most obvious warning issued from here was that this American-style approach to justice first involved negotiating information in exchange for reduced sentences.
In this context, Sinaloa drug lords are already negotiating benefits for themselves and their families in exchange for information—true or false—that will only be secretly processed by the neighboring country's security authorities, leaving no one to know if any operation could be fueled by the imprisoned drug traffickers .
Mexico missed the opportunity to negotiate with cartel leaders in exchange for certain benefits and privileges here, but for some reason the preferential decision was made to hand them over to the United States through extradition treaties or to transfer them like the 29 bosses who arrived in the US as a Mexican gift.
You don't have to be a fortune teller to guess that the great drug lord of drug lords , Rafael Caro Quintero, founder of the Guadalajara Cartel and the source of Mexican drug trafficking organizations, is already negotiating his alleged indictment to face the death penalty for the murder of U.S. anti-narcotics agent Enrique Camarena Salazar, or that he could receive life imprisonment. In the United States, people are not afraid to give up a benefit in exchange for information that leads to much greater benefits.
It's safe to say that it was obvious the Guzmáns were negotiating criminal and political information about Mexico to reduce their sentences a bit and, above all, to protect their families, as already happened with the first members of the Guzmán family who are being treated as virtual protected witnesses. And Mayo Zambada, they say, is negotiating the same thing.
So it should come as no surprise that drug traffickers imprisoned in the US are singing comic opera parts.
Ground Zero
- Official data on joint operations between U.S. and Mexican forces currently in Sinaloa are already opening a new phase of ongoing cooperation between Mexico and the U.S. to dismantle the criminal infrastructure of drug trafficking in Mexico. There are no formal indications of an agreement, but the fact that they are already underway—such as the one Wednesday in Sinaloa, announced by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)—is a beginning.
(*) Center for Economic, Political and Security Studies.
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