The US stirs up the hornet’s nest of drug trafficking in Mexico

All the latest news involving Mexico’s narcos are taking place in the United States. The Attorney General’s Office for the Eastern District of New York on Thursday asked that Genaro García Luna, who served as Mexico’s drug czar from 2006 to 2012 but was convicted last year of taking bribes from the Sinaloa cartel, be sentenced to life behind bars and pay $5 million for engaging in a criminal drug enterprise, taking part in various conspiracies and making false statements. His sentence is due to be announced on October 9 in a Brooklyn federal court. Meanwhile, Ismael El Mayo Zambada is expected to appear in that same court and before the same judge three weeks later, on October 31. And 300 kilometers to the south, in Washington, a jury is already deliberating on the verdict of Rubén Oseguera El Menchito, son of Nemesio Oseguera El Mencho, the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel. And before the end of this month, Ovidio Guzmán, son of El Chapo, has a date in court in Chicago, after weeks of speculation about his whereabouts.

While the judicial offensive advances on several fronts in U.S. territory, the Mexican state of Sinaloa has been burning for 10 days, caught up in the worst cartel war in more than a decade. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said that the U.S. is “jointly responsible” for the wave of violence that is ravaging the state, a historic bastion of the Sinaloa Cartel, for taking its attempts to capture El Mayo to the bitter end.

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