US $15B seized from ‘El Mayo’ should benefit Mexicans, Sheinbaum says: Wednesday’s mañanera recapped

With Security Minister Omar García Harfuch successful attendance, information issues were a cardinal absorption of President Claudia Sheinbaum’s Wednesday greeting property conference.

Here is simply a recap of the president’s Aug. 27 mañanera.

García Harfuch: Certain factions of the Sinaloa Cartel are ‘weakened,’ but enactment has ‘several heads’

A newsman asked the president whether the authorities was successful a presumption to state the Sinaloa Cartel “extinct,” fixed the “downfall” of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán respective years agone and the apprehension of Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, who this week pleaded blameworthy to cause trafficking successful a U.S. court.

Sheinbaum referred the question to García Harfuch.

“No, no,” García Harfuch said, dismissing immoderate anticipation of declaring the extinction of the Sinaloa Cartel, a large transgression enactment that ships ample quantities of narcotics, including fentanyl, to the United States.

“The Sinaloa Cartel has ne'er had a [single] person arsenic such,” the information curate continued.

“In different words, it has ever had respective leaders. It’s a cartel that has respective branches, let’s say. One of those was [led by] Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada, different by ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán, past [there are] the sons of ‘El Chapo; ‘El Guano,’ who is besides a member of ‘El Chapo’; [and] different [faction] of ‘El Chapo’ Isidro,” García Harfuch said.

“Certain factions of the Sinaloa Cartel are weakened,” Omar García Harfuch said connected Wednesday, but “there are inactive cells and precise important transgression leaders that person to beryllium arrested” for the cartel to dissolve. (Andrea Murcia/Cuartoscuro)

“… The cartel can’t beryllium [considered] finished due to the fact that determination are respective heads of this [group] that was erstwhile [a much unified] Sinaloa Cartel,” helium said.

“There are inactive cells and precise important transgression leaders that person to beryllium arrested,” García Harfuch said.

Asked whether the Sinaloa Cartel was astatine slightest weakened, the information curate responded:

“Certain factions of the Sinaloa Cartel are weakened.”

Two of those factions, Los Chapitos and Los Mayos, are engaged successful a long-running warfare that has claimed much than 1,000 lives since September 2024.

Sheinbaum: Money linked to ‘El Mayo’ that is seized successful Mexico should payment the Mexican people

A newsman noted that Zambada has committed to forfeit US $15 cardinal to the U.S. government, and asked Sheinbaum whether her authorities volition let U.S. authorities to prehend accounts and assets linked to the cartel person successful Mexico.

The president archetypal said that determination is nary warrant that Zambada volition manus implicit specified a ample magnitude of wealth to the U.S. government.

She subsequently said that “there is coordination” betwixt Mexico’s Finance Ministry and the U.S. Department of the Treasury, suggesting that the 2 entities could enactment unneurotic to prehend wealth and assets linked to Zambada.

Sheinbaum said that if determination is simply a “seizure of resources” successful Mexico and that wealth is transferred to the United States, her authorities “would person to ask” for it to beryllium returned to Mexico “for the payment of the people.”

She said that the wealth would beryllium “distributed for the people, for the astir humble people.”

“That’s wherefore determination is an Institute to Return Stolen Goods to the People,” Sheinbaum said.

García Harfuch: No grounds of an confederation betwixt Los Chapitos and CJNG

A newsman asked whether the authorities had immoderate accusation astir an alleged confederation betwixt Los Chapitos and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG)

The New York Times reported connected June 30 that a faction of the Sinaloa Cartel “led by sons of the cause lord known arsenic El Chapo” had “allied with an aged and almighty adversary, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, according to 4 radical acquainted with the matter.”

García Harfuch said that determination was nary grounds of specified an alliance.

He said that narco-banners had appeared successful Sinaloa with messages indicating that CJNG members were successful the authorities and helping to fortify Los Chapitos.

However, “everything indicates” that Los Chapitos themselves created the banners to marque radical judge “there was this alliance,” García Harfuch said.

He said that determination has been “no apprehension that confirms determination is an alliance” betwixt Los Chapitos and the CJNG.

Sheinbaum: ‘We don’t found collusive relationships with anyone’ 

A newsman asked the president whether her authorities had immoderate accusation astir police, subject unit and politicians receiving bribes from the Sinaloa Cartel, arsenic Zambada said occurred during his enactment of the transgression group.

Sheinbaum erstwhile again referred the question to García Harfuch, who acknowledged that determination person been arrests of municipal and authorities constabulary officers who were allegedly connected the take.

“To this time, we haven’t had immoderate subject idiosyncratic oregon marine [who was recovered to be] progressive successful this benignant [of illicit activity],” the information curate said.

García Harfuch besides said that the authorities had nary accusation astir nationalist officials oregon politicians receiving payments from the Sinaloa Cartel.

“If determination is immoderate investigation, arsenic always, it volition beryllium reported with implicit transparency. We volition behaviour the probe and apprehension whoever we person to arrest,” helium said.

Sheinbaum chimed successful to state that, “We don’t found collusive relationships with anyone.”

She said that if immoderate “person, person oregon nationalist official” is suspected of having links to transgression groups, they volition beryllium investigated.

“But we don’t have, astatine this time, immoderate impervious against immoderate nationalist servant oregon subordinate of the service oregon navy. And if immoderate grounds were to beryllium found, each of america who are portion of the Security Cabinet volition not screen up for anyone,” Sheinbaum said.