The Ministry of National Security of Mexico reports that the 13 people They were delivered in El Paso, TexasUnited States, near Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua.
After delivery, the prisoners were transferred to a federal prison in Nayarit, aboard an aircraft of the Mexican Air Force, where a Operational with the participation of the Ministry of National Defense, the National Guard and the Federal Protection Service.
On February 27, in the middle of the tensions for tariff threats of the US president, Donald Trump, Mexico gave that country to 29 capos of the drug trafficking For national security reasons, regardless of the extradition treaty between the two countries.
The US Department of Justice said that the inmates transferred to Mexico served sentences for crimes related to the Cocaine distributionmethamphetamine and fentanyl.
He added that his repatriation Save the government of that country more than US $ 3 millionby eliminating the need to pay the imprisonment costs for the 75 years that subtracted from their combined sentences.
The Identities of repatriated prisoners were not revealed.
The delivery announced on Monday was carried out under the International Treaty for Transfer of Prisoners, signed between Mexico and the United States in 1977.
The Mexican government has repeatedly requested the United States Extradition of Ismael “May” Zambadaco -founder of Sinaloa cartel.
Zambada was arrested in American territory in July 2024 and faces a drug trafficking trial in a New York Court. The capo denounced to have been kidnapped in Mexico by a son of his exsocium Joaquín “Chapo” Guzmán and transferred in a private plane to the United States.