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US says El Chapo son surrendered but El Mayo taken against will from Mexico

Undated police handout picture shows Ismael 'El Mayo' Zambada Garcia [File: Courtesy of the Procuraduria General de la Republica via Reuters]

The US ambassador to Mexico has acknowledged that drug lord Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada Garcia was brought to the United States against his will when he arrived in Texas in July on a plane along with fellow drug lord Joaquin Guzman Lopez, son of the infamous cartel kingpin “El Chapo”.

Zambada Garcia’s lawyer had earlier claimed that El Mayo, 76, the longtime chief of the Sinaloa drug cartel, had been kidnapped from Mexico by Guzman Lopez and six men in military uniforms who flew him to the US against his will.

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