President Claudia Sheinbaum announced Monday that she will file a lawsuit against the lawyer of the drug trafficker Ovidio Guzmán, Jeffrey Lichtman, who called “absurd” the position of the Mexican government to ask to participate in the guilt agreement of the son of ‘El Chapo’ in the United States.
“I will not establish dialogue with a drug dealer lawyer. Number one. Number two, we will file a defamation demand here in Mexico, because it cannot be missing through the legal counseling,” said the president during the Mañanera del Pueblo.
Sheinbaum’s reaction occurs after Friday, just hours after Ovid Guzmán declared himself guilty in a Chicago court for four positions-in exchange for collaborating with information on the Sinaloa cartel-Lichtman accused Mexico of ignoring other figures of the drug trafficking protected locally.
Litchman also questioned that Mexico would seek to participate in the agreement when the government of former President López Obrador “violated a bilateral agreement” with the US when he exonerated General Salvador Cienfuegos, after asking for his extradition while investigating drug trafficking in the US.
In response, Sheinbaum said his government does not establish “contubernio relations or complicity with anyone.”
This Monday, the Mexican ruler said that in the case of Cienfuegos the issue “because it is very clear that there was innocence.”
Lee: Sheinbaum describes the statements of Ovid Guzmán’s lawyer as ‘disrespectful’
Therefore, he said that his government will seek to clearly describe how the entire case was, from the arrest of the general, until his release and how the Attorney General of the Republic participated in the issue.
On Friday, Ovid Guzmán, son of Joaquín ‘El Chapo’, avoided going to the US trial after declaring multipable trafficking of multiple drugs (including fentanyl) and participating in organized crime.
Judge Sharon Coleman will set her sentence within six months, and predictably Guzmán will avoid life imprisonment by accessing to collaborate with justice.
However, the US prosecutor indicated that he will ask for a minor penalty than the perpetual if Guzmán meets his cooperation, and requested a fine of 80 million dollars, although Judge Coleman will define both the final sentence and the final amount.
With EFE information
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