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Thursday 28 of March 2024

US must explain early release of 'El Güero' Palma: Deputies


The PRI's Jorge Carlos Ramírez Marín,Cuartoscuro.com
The PRI's Jorge Carlos Ramírez Marín,Cuartoscuro.com
Palma Salazar, one of the main leaders of the Sinaloa cartel in the 1990s, will be released 9 years early by the United States

MEXICO CITY – The vice-coordinator of Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) deputies, Jorge Carlos Ramírez Marín, said that U.S. authorities should give an explanation for the early release of drug trafficker Jesús Héctor ‘El Güero’ Palma.

Palma Salazar, one of the main leaders of the Sinaloa cartel in the 1990s, was extradited in 2007 to the United States and convicted and sentenced there to 16 years in prison, but will be released in June for good behavior after spending nine years in prison.

MÉXICO, D.F., 29AGOSTO2015.- Marko Cortés Mendoza, nuevo líder de diputados del PAN, durante la sesión constitutiva de la LXIII Legislatura para el primer año de ejercicio, que entrara en funciones el próximo martes 1 de septiembre. FOTO: DIEGO SIMÓN SÁNCHEZ /CUARTOSCURO.COM
PAN deputies leader Marko Cortés Mendoza, Photo: Diego Simón Sánchez/Cuartoscuro.com

This case is, said the PRI deputy, “Another example of the uneven application of the law in Mexico and the United States, and an example of how, in my opinion, we are not in agreement, of how we are being asked here to treat drug traffickers, and there is provided another.”

“The question here is how does this leave Mexican society, the victims of crimes committed by ‘El Güero’ Palma, people who were affected within this country by his activities. After that happened in Mexico, forgiveness and freedom is granted by the United States,” Ramírez Martín continued.

Separately, the coordinator of National Action Party (PAN) deputies, Marko Cortés Mendoza stressed that the release of ‘El Güero’ Palma in the United States “is a decision that lies in another country” and hoped that it “is attached to law.”

The PAN deputy said that his party will seek from Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman Loera “To clarify everything have left to clarify here in Mexico, to leave us all the information he has in respect to their operation networks and influence.”

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