The US denies responsibility for the violence in Sinaloa as AMLO stated

MADRID (EUROPA PRESS).– The United States ambassador to México, Ken Salazar, denied the accusations made this week by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, about the alleged responsibility of Washington in the wave of violence in the state of Sinaloa following the arrest of the leader and co-founder of the Cartel Sinaloa Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada.

“When it is said then that the United States, we, are responsible for what is happening in Sinaloa among other places, I do not agree. The reality is that the problem has to be defined and solved,” Ambassador Salazar told the media, according to El Universal.

“It is impossible to understand how the United States can be responsible for the massacres that we see in different places, such as what was seen in Morelos (…) or what is being seen in Sinaloa “That is not the fault of the United States,” Salazar added, thus replying to President López Obrador.

The Mexican president had assured days ago that the United States was jointly responsible for the violence in Sinaloa for the arrest of “El Mayo” Zambada, who enjoyed different treatment than other detainees. “If we are now facing a Sinaloa a situation of instability, of confrontation, because they made that decision,” he said.

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced in late July the arrest in El Paso, Texas, of “El Mayo” and Joaquín Guzmán López, son of drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, who face numerous charges in the country for leading the organization’s operations.

“El Mayo” Zambada stated in a letter in mid-August that Joaquín Guzmán, who had reached an agreement with Washington, handed him over against his own will to the U.S. authorities on July 25.