Enrique Galvan Ochoa: Money

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l May Zambada left The Mexican lawyers who threatened to collapse Mexican-American relations if the government did not repatriate him to our country were hanged. His main lawyer, Frank Perez, announced that he would seek a deal with the US government: he would plead guilty in exchange for not being sentenced to death. The Mexican subcontracted litigator Juan Pablo Penilla Rodriguez probably got the important client by presenting himself as influential, with important contacts in politics.

It was a fiasco. The alleged connections turned their backs on him despite the photographs with which he boasted of his closeness to the head of state. President Claudia Sheinbaum was blunt: thousands of people approach her on her tours and take photos with her, but she does not know the lawyer Penilla. (What a shame, Penilla!) The commentators who were waiting for sensational information derived from the collapsed collapse were also left hanging. Now they are betting that there will be great revelations if El Mayo reaches an agreement with the United States authorities.

He doesn't want to be executed

Mr Zambada does not want to stand trial and is willing to accept responsibility for a charge that does not carry the death penalty , US lawyer Frank Perez told Reuters. The US attorney's office in Brooklyn, which filed the charges, declined to comment. In September, Mr Zambada pleaded not guilty in federal court in New York to 17 felony charges, including drug trafficking, money laundering and weapons possession. The deal proposed by his defence is for the drug lord to plead guilty but not be charged with any crime that carries the death penalty. While it is a judicial matter, it remains to be seen what US President Donald Trump, who initiated the proposal to execute the narco-terrorists, will say.

Trump's collapse

The one who could suffer a collapse is Trump, as a result of his administration shutting down its operations for lack of money. Congress has not approved this year's budget in a final manner, and is exercising an emergency extension that expires on March 14. The chances of a shutdown are just over 60 percent, according to Polymarket, a betting firm cited by Joshua Green in Businessweek magazine. Polymarket is running another bet: Will the United States mount an armed operation in Mexico to combat the cartels sometime soon, say in May? Only 18 percent are betting on it.

Superweight

The US national debt stands at $36.2 trillion. Trump's advisers advise him to devalue the currency in order to boost exports and reduce debt. The super peso would make a strong comeback.

Tell it to Claudia Subject: those lawyers

El Mayo Zambada sends his team of lawyers to arrange for his release. His lawyers? I have worked honestly all my life and I would have difficulty paying for a lawyer. We will have to investigate where the money comes from to pay them. If it comes from El Mayo 's operations, then the litigants should go to jail for trafficking in money of illicit origin. Has that already been seen?

Carlos Daniel Soto/Mexico City

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