US arrests of Mexican drug lords could bring fresh charges in home country

12/8/2024 11:34

        Mexico is now investigating two drug lords arrested in the United States last month for their involvement in a slew of alleged crimes committed in their home country in order to get them stateside, federal authorities said on Sunday.
        
        U.S. authorities captured Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, co-founder of the Sinaloa Cartel, and Joaquin Guzman Lopez, the son of Zambada's former partner Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, in a stunning arrest late last month near El Paso, Texas.
        
        The two have given differing accounts of how they ended up on a plane bound for the small-town airstrip, with Zambada saying on Saturday he was tricked by El Chapo's son and ambushed.
        
        Guzman, who is about 38 years old, meanwhile, has denied taking Zambada by force and called the handover a voluntary surrender after extended negotiations between the two drug traffickers and the U.S. government.