Jose Luis Granados Ceja

I'm the one who should really rise up to be the next leader of this organization.

So here in Mexico, we have a national security cabinet, and that is essentially the body that's tasked with making these difficult decisions.

And part of the kind of calculation is that, in fact, under the previous government, Claudia Scheinbaum's predecessor, López Obrador, there was that famous case where one of El Chapo's sons was ultimately let go because they made the evaluation that the kind of violence that this was going to unleash was basically not worth it.

You know, there was a calculation like,

Should we proceed with his detention and allow them to unleash the kind of violence that we expect them to?

Or should we kind of walk away and find a better moment for this?

I think what's important about this one is that there's a couple of things.

One, there was important intelligence that was shared from the United States, apparently.

Both the U.S.

government and the Mexican government have now said as much that there was key intelligence

intelligence here.

It sounds like they knew where he was, that this was a good chance to grab him, where he wasn't being heavily protected, where they were less able to kind of mobilize.

And so it seems that that's the reason they took the decision.

This was a good moment.

They had good intelligence.

They could act on it.

But the other one was also kind of understanding that they needed to strike against these organized crime groups.

They needed to, I think, in a

to the organized crimes groups themselves to say that we're serious about going after you, that this is a different kind of administration in terms of a much stronger, heavier hand when it comes to these groups, but also a message to Donald Trump, to the White House, to say, you know, that right now the debate that seems to be happening in

in the United States is whether there should be unilateral military action by the United States and Mexico.