In the long list of alleged Mexican narcos that have gone through the gears of American justice, the name of Pedro Inzunza Noriega will have a separate mention. The man has become this week with six other people, including his son Pedro Inzunza Coronel. The episode opens a new era in the strip and loosen between the United States and Mexico for drug trafficking. He does it in the same week when Donald Trump’s government allowed 17 people linked to Ovid Guzmán López, one of Joaquín’s children, one of Joaquín’s children El Chapo Guzmán. Washington pists on the table with one hand and tends the other to offer a negotiation.
The accusation states that Inzunza Noriega, known as Sagittarius and 120, It belongs to the organization of the Beltrán Leyva, a faction of the Sinaloa cartel that has been exporting cocaine, heroin and methamphetamines for two decades to the United States. It has been placed in the center of the Mira de la Justicia American for a specific reason. “Together with his son, Pedro Inzunza Coronel, together they direct one of the greatest and most sophisticated fentanyl production networks worldwide,” says prosecutor Adam Gordon.
Gordon, a 43 -year -old lawyer, is from April 11 at the head of the Special Narcoterrorism Unit, a group recently created by the Department of Justice. The prosecutor works in San Diego, where the majority of the opioid that has caused an epidemic in the United States. This arrives from Tijuana, in Mexico, “one of the squares controlled by the Beltrán Leyva, along with the states of Quintana Roo, Chiapas, Oaxaca, Guerrero and Sinaloa,” according to the official version.
Trump Mexicanos, including that of Sinaloa, and two South American gangs in the list of foreign terrorist organizations. Pam Bondi, the administration attorney general, said this week that fighting this type of criminal groups needs “fresh” and “powerful” legal strategies.
“It is difficult for these designations to be merely passengers. It seems the beginning of a sustained strategy of the United States and will spend time before the policies against cartels can descale,” considers a lawyer for a global legal office, who asks not to be identified by the cases that litigates in the United States. The lawyer points to the administrative and financial impact that these measures have, used to freeze goods and assets of organizations in financial systems, international restrictions and losses of legal guarantees protected by due process.
The United States had already resorted to accusations for drug trafficking. He did it in March 2020, when charges were presented against Nicolás Maduro, the president of Venezuela, and the Chavista dome for corruption and for having received money from drug trafficking and guerrillas. “Maduro’s regime is full of corruption and crime,” said the then Attorney General, William Barr. In the same line was Mike Pompeo, the Secretary of State.
Trump’s first government offered for those who would help Maduro’s arrest. This obviously has not occurred. Nor that of Inzunza Noriega, 62, and Inzunza Coronel, 33, who are considered fugitives of justice and those who have been charged after the celebration of a large jury.
“The great challenge for the authorities is now to capture them and achieve chains in a trial,” recalls the lawyer. This, however, points out that terrorism position can have important effects on a criminal process and “could motivate to cooperate or accept guilt agreements.” The accusation of narcoterrorism and terrorism assistance can lead to minimum penalties of 20 years in prison and fines for 20 million dollars.
Prosecutor Barr visited Mexico in January 2020 to press Mexican authorities a. When Trump left, Joe Biden did not remove his finger from the line. In, the Department of the Treasury designated Inzunza Noriega and his partner, Oscar Manuel Gastélum Iribe, known as the musician, leaders of the Beltrán Leyva and froze them financial goods and movements. They were, the Difaculsa and Editorial Mercado Equestrian Pharmacy, a media company of equine content.
The Trump government believes that the Inzunza have trafficked “tens of thousands of kilograms” of Fentanil. This was sent to the north in the form of colorful pills or bricks decorated with luxury brands stamps. The authorities have linked the last name with the greatest confiscation of Fentanyl in history, which occurred on December 3, 2024 in various locations in Sinaloa, Mexico. The Mexican federal agents involved in the drug operation.
Then Sinaloa already lived a crisis caused by the war between two criminal organizations, the faction inherited by Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán to her children and the commanded by the Great Capo, Ismael May Zambada This, who had never stepped on a prison in his country, now awaits his moment for his former partners in an international incident.
Ovid Guzmán López, one of those affected by the war that began in Sinaloa, has been graceful this week. The Government of Mexico said that 17 relatives, including their mother, Griselda López ,. The arrest occurs in a framework in which Washington has practically disappeared political asylum and launched a great capture operation of undocumented and immigrants. The American press states that Ovid Guzmán will declare himself guilty this summer, which would confirm the negotiation with the authorities.
Omar García Harfuch, the Secretary of Security of Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, confirmed the arrival of the Guzmán family to the United States. The secretary informed that none of those who crossed the border was sought by the authorities at their service. Washington has saved silence about the arrest, qualified by several analysts as a gesture that points to a negotiation between the United States and the capo. Sheinbaum asked the Washington authorities more transparency. This still seems distant in the case.
