Mexico president asks cartels not to fight each other after arrest of drug lords

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador makes unusual public appeal after arrest of top leaders of Sinaloa cartel

Mexico's president has taken the unusual step of issuing a public appeal to drug cartels not to fight each other following last week's detention of the top Mexican drug lord Ismael El Mayo" Zambada and Joaquin Guzman Lopez.

President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said at his daily press briefing that he trusted that drug traffickers knew they would only suffer if they stepped up the internal wars that already plague the Sinaloa cartel.