Carlos Loret de Mola: The day that “El Mayo” almost fell

How useful photos with powerful politicians sometimes are.

A few years ago, during Enrique Peña Nieto's six-year term, an Army commando knocked on the door of a house in Mazatlán, Sinaloa . The soldiers asked to enter. They explained that they wanted to search the house because they had received a report that a target for arrest could be located there.

The whistle was right: Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada was in the house , accompanied by several men, including his financial operator who died years later from Covid and his godson, who eventually became a local Morena deputy .

Records of that event tell us that when the Sinaloa cartel boss heard from afar that they were soldiers, he climbed onto the roof of the house to hide. “Mayo’s” friends entertained the soldiers. But it was a move by his godson that managed to save him: he told the uniformed men that they were not drug traffickers, that they were politicians . And to prove it, he took out his cell phone and showed a photo with Peña Nieto , who at that time was president (Dr. Sheinbaum would say, from the 3 thousand photos that politicians take every day ).

The soldiers were convinced that it had been a false alarm , they left and after a few minutes, “Mayo” came down from the roof and rejoined the gathering.

Morbid satiators.

1) What are you doing? They say that, during the presidential pre-campaigns , a year ago, the controversial union leader, multimillionaire businessman and federal deputy of Morena, Pedro Haces, shouted disdainfully to anyone who would listen that Claudia Sheinbaum was not going to be president, that the president was going to be Ricardo Monreal , that he would be her Secretary of the Interior and that he would be in charge of making a pact with drug traffickers to end the violence.

At the National Palace they express with a mischievous face that no one should underestimate President Sheinbaum, and that Haces could soon be a very good first example.

2) The 30 extraditables. “El Universal” published on Friday that Mexico has already extradited 8 alleged drug traffickers that the United States had requested. Yesterday, the Attorney General of the Republic, Alejandro Gertz Manero, updated that there were already 11. One week before the end of the one-month truce for Trump’s tariffs on Mexico, the signals continue to accumulate for the American president to convince him that Mexico is cooperating in the fight against fentanyl trafficking, that tariffs are not necessary. Very well-informed sources tell me that the US government, through the American embassy, ​​sent a list to the Sheinbaum administration with 30 names. 30 priority targets. 30 extraditables. Alleged drug traffickers who are already in Mexican prisons and that the neighbor wants to prosecute in its courts. They have already begun to process the list. There are 30 pieces for the negotiation with Trump. — Mexico City.

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