Mexico’s President Calls on Cartels Not to Fight After Alleged Drug Lords Arrested

Published on July 29, 2024

Mexico’s president issued an appeal on Monday to drug cartels not to fight each other following the recent arrests of alleged drug lords Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada Garcia and Joaquín Guzmán López. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said during his daily press briefing that he trusted that drug cartels knew that stepping up internal wars would increase the suffering that already plagued the Sinaloa cartel. “Those who are engaged in these illegal activities know they resolve nothing with confrontations,” Mr. López Obrador said. “They would go out and risk the lives of other human beings, and why make families suffer?”...