Mexico extradites the United States to a key witness against "El Chapo" Guzmán

Mexico (Reuters) .- Mexico was extradited to the United States to "El Licenciado". It is thus that Dámaso López Núñez is known, who led a bloody struggle to replace Joaquín


"El Chapo" Guzmán
as


head of poster
of Sinaloa. López was captured in May 2017 in Mexico City and, according to the National Attorney's Office, faces charges of criminal conspiracy and crimes against health in a Virginia court

López was a former public servant of the prison which, according to the authorities, He was very close to Guzmán and played a key role in the orchestration of his


first release from prison
in 2001. It is believed, later, that "The Licentiate" faced, in a power struggle, the children of
Guzmán, who
He was extradited in January
From Mexico to the United States

Therefore, the head of the Mexican attorney's office, Alberto Elías Beltrán, said: "He is potentially a key witness against Joaquín Guzmán Loera, considered the main leader of
a criminal group with an operation in Sinaloa, whose trial is scheduled for September in New York. "

He added:" Both for the Attorney General's Office and the US Department of Justice there is a legal interest The trial and sanction against Guzmán Loera have been successful. "

López was handed over to US authorities in the border state of Chihuahua, in a video posted by the prosecutor via Twitter, which can be seen at an airport in Ciudad Juárez, handcuffed and wearing a bullet-proof vest. , while he was being driven by Mexican military and investigation agents to the plane that would take him to the United States.

It should also be noted that in July 2017, the son of Dámaso López aka "The" Mini Lic "was delivered to US agents at a border crossing.

In addition to this, the United States Department of Justice reported a second extradition. The alleged member of the Sinaloa cartel, Arturo Lozano-Méndez, aka "El Garza", accused of transferring large quantities of marijuana and cocaine to the United States.

"Lozano, 47, is one of two dozen presumed leaders of the powerful cartel of Sinaloa, including Joaquín Guzmán Loera aka" El Chapo "and Ismael Zambada García aka" Mayo ", accused, in April 2012 , of federal extortion charges in the West Texas District, "said American

The Mexican government has managed, in recent years, to arrest great drug chiefs, who far from containing violence, caused the fragmentation of criminal groups and other illicit activities such as extortion, kidnapping In the middle of this scenario, last year was considered the most violent in Mexico with nearly 30,000 dead and thousands missing in the country.