The United States opens a brand new and contradictory stage in its battle towards Mexican drug trafficking | EUROtoday

In the lengthy listing of alleged Mexican narcos which have gone by way of the gears of American justice, the title of Pedro Inzunza Noriega could have a separate point out. The man has turn into this week with six different folks, together with his son Pedro Inzunza Coronel, within the first accused of drug positions. The episode opens a brand new period within the strip and loosen between the United States and Mexico for drug trafficking. He does it in the identical week when Donald Trump’s authorities allowed 17 folks linked to Ovid Guzmán López, one in all Joaquín’s kids, one in all Joaquín’s kids El Chapo Guzmán. Washington pists on the desk with one hand and tends the opposite to supply a negotiation.

The accusation states that Inzunza Noriega, generally known as Sagittarius and 120, It belongs to the group of the Beltrán Leyva, a faction of the Sinaloa cartel that has been exporting cocaine, heroin and methamphetamines for 20 years to the United States. It has been positioned within the middle of the Mira de la Justicia American for a selected purpose. “Together with his son, Pedro Inzunza Coronel works to produce and aggressively fentanyl.

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 many squares managed by the Beltrán Leyva, together with the states of Quintana Roo, Chiapas, Oaxaca, Guerrero and Sinaloa,” according to the official version.

Trump issued an executive order in February that added six Mexican cartels, 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 “recent” and “highly effective” legal strategies.

“It is tough for these designations to be merely passengers. It appears the start of a sustained technique of the United States and can spend time earlier than the insurance policies towards 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 stuffed with 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 $ 15 million for those who gave information to arrest Maduro. 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 nice problem for the authorities is now to seize them and obtain chains in a trial,” recalls the lawyer. This, however, points out that terrorism position can have important effects on a criminal process and “may encourage to cooperate or settle for 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 pressure Mexican authorities to stop the passage of fentanyl to the United States. When Trump left, Joe Biden did not remove his finger from the line. In December 2023, the Department of the Treasury appointed Inzunza Noriega and its partner, Oscar Manuel Gastélum Iribe, known as the musician, Beltrán Leyva leaders and froze financial goods and movements. They were affected by the measures 15 people and two companies, the Difaculsa and Editorial Mercado Equestrian Pharmacy, a media company of equine content.

The Trump government believes that the Inzunza have trafficked “tens of 1000’s 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 operation were seized of 1.5 tons of the drug.

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 time to face justice after being delivered by 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 Mexico Government said that 17 relatives, among these their mother, Griselda López, crossed the United States to surrender to the authorities. 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 household to the United States. The secretary knowledgeable that none of those that crossed the border was sought by the authorities at their service. Washington has saved silence concerning the arrest, certified by a number of analysts as a gesture that factors to a negotiation between the United States and the capo. Sheinbaum requested the Washington authorities extra transparency. This nonetheless appears distant within the case.