🚨 BREAKING: Mexican president demands the US share $15 BILLION from the convicted cartel boss with Mexico’s poor
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Wednesday that she will press the United States to turn over money seized from convicted Sinaloa cartel leader Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada. Sheinbaum has argued it should go to Mexico’s poorest citizens, reports CBS News.
“If the United States government were to recover resources, then we would be asking for them to be given to Mexico for the poorest people,” Sheinbaum said during her daily press briefing.
Zambada, 77, pleaded guilty in a New York courtroom Monday to drug trafficking and murder, including overseeing the smuggling of fentanyl, a narcotic blamed for tens of thousands of overdose deaths in the US each year. Prosecutors said he agreed to forfeit $15 billion as part of his plea deal, which spared him the possibility of the death penalty but left him facing a life sentence.