“Imagine the suspicion, the jokes, the memes.” Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, “AMLO,” presides over a country ravaged by cartel violence and spiking homicide rates, decimated economically by the COVID-19 pandemic, and well behind the curve in immunization rates. Yet on a Monday morning in early May, his concerns about Mexico’s global reputation were.
let s dig deeper in other ways to el chapo s capture. what will be next for the notorious drug king pen, joining me is sylvia longmire, also a mexico drug war analyst. good to see you. good to see you. so how significant, in your view, is this capture and the significance of putting him in the very place that he escaped six months ago? this is a real make or break moment for the presidential administration. very glad to hear the extradition is likely. it s significant really more from a significant as far as symbolic victory, i guess you could say. the sinaloa federation will continue operations as normal but the fact they re making this decision to extradite him to the united states, to stay in jail,