Culiacán, Sinaloa, July 11. Hours after Ovidio Guzmán López , leader of one of the Sinaloa cartel factions, pleaded guilty to several drug trafficking-related crimes before a Chicago court, President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo described the statements made by the kingpin's defense as " disrespectful to the presidential institution."
On a tour of this state—which has suffered the consequences of the violent confrontation between the Los Chapitos and Los Mayos criminal groups for ten months—the president emphasized that in her administration, " we do not establish relations of complicity with anyone" and noted that everything will be done to restore peace to Sinaloa: "They cannot defeat us; we will move forward."
At the Chicago hearing against the son of cartel founder Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, his lawyer, Jeffrey Lichtman , accused President Sheinbaum of complaining that her administration wasn't involved in "the negotiations" between her client and the United States government. "The idea, I think she was asking for extradition to the United States, was somehow saying that the Mexican government should have participated in the legal process of the extradition."
In a press conference called on an extraordinary basis, which halted her scheduled activities in Culiacán, the federal president emphasized: “First, to say that these statements by the litigant are disrespectful to the presidential institution, the Attorney General's Office (FGR) is about to issue a statement, as I was informed by prosecutor Alejandro Gertz Manero.”
