Mexican president issues public appeal to drug cartels not to fight after detention of drug lord
Mexico's president has taken the unusual step of issuing a public appeal to drug cartels not to fight each other, following last week's detention of top Mexican drug lord Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada and Joaquín Guzmán López
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president took the unusual step Monday of issuing a public appeal to drug cartels not to fight each other following last week's detention of top Mexican drug lord Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada and Joaquín Guzmán López.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said at his daily press briefing that he trusted that drug traffickers knew they would only suffer if they stepped up the internal wars that already plague the Sinaloa cartel.
“Those who are engaged in these illegal activities know they resolve nothing with confrontations,” López Obrador said, adding “they would go out and risk the lives of other human beings, and why make families suffer?”
“I trust that there will be no confrontations,” he said, despite the fact the army announced over the weekend that it had sent an additional 200 elite soldiers from a paratrooper unit to the state of Sinaloa just in case.
