The drug trafficker has declared himself guilty to the United States justice at an audience held on Monday in a Federal Court in New York. The one related to conspiracy and the conduct of an organized crime company to import and distribute drugs in the US, provided for in the rich law. In exchange for its guilt acceptance, the United States Prosecutor’s Office has committed to not requesting the death penalty for Zambada. May continues, son of his former partner, Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán, who also accepted Washington’s accusations. The Government of Claudia Sheinbaum, attentive to these negotiations, has been critical of the movements of the Donald Trump administration, authorizing their army to attack those groups in territories outside their borders and offers them agreements with justice.
For now, Zambada has released during the audience something that can become a snowball in Mexico. “The organization that I headed encouraged corruption in my country by paying police, military and political commanders that allowed us to operate freely,” he said. The May, dressed in the blue clothes and oranges typical of the defendants, read in Spanish the agreement of its guilt acceptance before the judge, the same that prosecuted the corrupt former Secretary of Public Security of Mexico Genaro García Luna and who sentenced El Chapo. May Zambada has reported that, over six decades of criminal career, he trafficked in the United States, at first marijuana, then cocaine, and has accepted that he obtained millionaire profits. The US Prosecutor’s Office also accuses him of heroin and fentanyl smuggling.
Zambada has also recognized the “great damage” that drugs have caused in Mexico and the United States, and has asked for forgiveness for the violence linked to its criminal empire. Although he has avoided going through a public trial, the charges accepted by the drug trafficker ament a lord of life imprisonment. Judge Cogan imposed a fine of 15,000 million dollars to the drug trafficker, which will be obtained from the seizure of their assets and assets, and scheduled the sentence for January 13, 2026. At the end of the hearing, the lawyer of El Mayo, Frank Pérez, has assured that his client will not negotiate with Washington, and explained that this means not to contribute names to incriminate other criminals or authorities. Pérez has admitted that the capo, perhaps, obtains some benefit in the imprisonment conditions.
The agreement with the American justice by El Mayo is the climax of a saga of criminal and politicians that began last year, with the. Zambada has denounced that his old cartel allies – concluded, the heirs of El Chapo Guzmán – they had a trap, kidnapped him in Sinaloa and took him without his consent to the neighboring country. The alleged betrayal began identified with May and the Chapo. The then president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, held Washington responsible for the violence unleashed in Sinaloa, a war that has caused dozens of dead and missing, not counting the serious damage to the state’s economy.
The legal defense strategy of May Zambada has taken a turn in recent months. If there is, for the fear of the death penalty, he has accepted a part of the positions charged with the US Prosecutor’s Office. The change occurred after Washington removed the most dire scenario for the old capo from the table. In addition, the parties have agreed that the May is not tried for the crimes of drug trafficking, use of prohibited weapons, homicide and money laundering.
The negotiations of the US Prosecutor’s Office with high -profile Mexican narcos open the doubt of what benefits Washington expects to achieve. May was one of the most important leaders of the Sinaloa cartel and for decades supposedly commanded drugs to the United States. Over the years he had become one of the priority objectives of the authorities of that country. From Mexico, in the political corrillos the possibility of Zambada to provide information that affects high -level authorities and politicians is feared.
