Cross-border kidnapping

The situation looks less complicated four days later. President Sheinbaum even outlined yesterday the outcome of El Mayo Zambada's demand to be brought and tried in Mexico, not in the United States, by assuring that her government will comply with the law against the rights of any Mexican. What was said here on Saturday: in this case, El Mayo is right to demand transfer to his country after a clearly irregular, illegal detention. "Mr. Zambada was the victim of a cross-border kidnapping," Juan Manuel Delgado, a member of the Sinaloa man's defense team, told me yesterday. "Hence his demand. We await the response from the Executive Branch through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but we will not remain in an indefinite wait; if we do not obtain it within 15 days, we will request an injunction." Delgado emphasizes that, in the meantime, El Mayo "will not negotiate or give information to the United States authorities, I affirm this categorically." Things would seem to be clear, then. Pending the analysis presented today by prosecutor Gertz, who has already stated that El Mayo has several outstanding arrest warrants in Mexico that the FGR does not intend to abandon.