Feds hold the mayo — El Chapo's shadowy Sinaloa drug cartel co-founder 'El Mayo' in U.S. custody.

https://www.reuters.com/world/ameri...yo-is-us-custody-sources-say-2024-07-25/

https://chicago.suntimes.com/el-cha...-co-founder-el-mayo-u-s-custody-thursday

WOW this is crazy El Mayo looks like he made a deal and needs medical care.

Check this out
https://www.axios.com/2023/01/06/mexico-arrest-el-chapo-son-deadly-violence-sinola

Thats from 2023.

Worth Billions of Dollars and he can't get medical care in Mexico or another country other than America. Unreal. He must be terminal and finally wants to turn himself in.

Oops. You are correct ,Sir. Should have checked more thoroughly.
It even says the arrest took place in Mexico,which of course it didn't.
Good catch.

Its not your fault!!!

I read he was set up by a high ranking figure him and the Chapo son went on the plane to check out new air fields for business instead the plane flew over the border where the Fbi and DEA were waiting.

Citing Mexican and US officials, the Wall Street Journal reports that Zambada was tricked into boarding the plane by a high-ranking Sinaloa member following a months-long operation by Homeland Security Investigations and the FBI.
The paper added that Zambada believed he was going to inspect clandestine airfields in Mexico.
Officials said Zambada was "lured" onto a private plane under "false pretences" by Guzman Lopez, the New York Times reports.
Zambada believed the plane would fly south in Mexico but instead it flew north and landed in El Paso, said Fox News Correspondent Bryan Llenas citing law enforcement sources.
Guzman Lopez surrendered to US authorities and turned on Zambada because he “blamed Mayo for the capture of his father”, Mr Llenas added.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4ng4g31x1wo

Are there any comprehensive books chronicling the history of the cartels in Mexico? Like five families by selwyn Raab? Narcos Mexico is all i have to go off of, andvwe all know hollywood rarely follows the truth.

Surprised they didn't whack him like they did to Giancana.

Obviously the son got an amazing plea bargain if he brought him to us Alive. I wonder if this means his father will be moved to a more humane facility?

I recommend this one.
Not focusing only on Mexican cartels, but on how global traffic works.

Zero Zero Zero Paperback – 25 Aug. 2016
English edition by Roberto Saviano (auteur)

From the international bestselling author of Gomorrah, this searing exposé reveals how dirty money and the drug trade are at the heart of our lives, our economy, and our world

In many countries, 'zero zero' or double zero flour is the finest, best flour on the market. Among narco-traffickers, then, 'zero zero zero' is the nickname for the very purest, highest quality grade of cocaine. From Mexican cartels to Milanese financiers, Guatemalan mercenaries to Ukrainian warlords, Calabrian traffickers to the traders in Wall Street and London who wash the money clean, this is an unforgettable story that goes around the globe and through every level of society to show the extent to which the drug trade affects us all.

If I was a conspiracy theory nut, I might think the timing was interesting. Almost like it was to make a certain political person who has been an abject failure at a certain task, look like they're doing a good job, while they aspire to a higher office.

But I'm not a conspiracy theory nut.

Flight to Texas: Sinaloa Cartel leadership arrested in U.S. – Questions remain about “El Mayo” Zambada’s capture https://gangstersinc.org/2024/07/26...s-remain-about-el-mayo-zambadas-capture/

100% they will use it in their campaign anyway.

Indeed.

This is a guy who was worth Billions and chose to live his life in his home country of Mexico, without flash or fancy things. Just as a rancher like many others in the area. He pretty much didn't change at all even when he built his empire and became the wealthiest drug lord on the planet.

‘He’s a straight-up rancher’: Chicago twins who cooperated against Sinaloa cartel talk about arrest of ‘El Mayo’

As the leader of one of the world’s largest and most brutal drug-trafficking organizations, Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada is far from the “narco” stereotype portrayed on some TV special.

Unlike his partner, former Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, Zambada has operated largely out of the glare of public and media attention. He wasn’t labeled Public Enemy No. 1. He dresses simply, prefers life on one of his many cattle ranches to extravagant parties, yachts or beachside nightclubs. Those who know him often referred to him as “Del Sombrero,” after his trademark wide-brimmed cowboy hat.

“He’s a straight-up rancher, old school,” said Pedro Flores, the convicted drug trafficker from Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood who, along with his twin brother, helped the U.S. government bring indictments against a slew of Sinaloa figures, including Zambada and Chapo. “The way he treated people, he was the most understanding … always looking to please the people around him.”

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024...loa-cartel-talk-about-arrest-of-el-mayo/

Little is known about Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada - this image was taken on Thursday and obtained by the BBC's US partner CBS

[img]https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/800/cpsprodpb/ae18/live/d1aa0100-4b6e-11ef-b2d2-cdb23d5d7c5b.png.webp[/img]

Rat bastard!


How “El Chapo’s” Son Duped Drug-Cartel Kingpin “El Mayo” Zambada and Turned Himself In


MEXICO CITY—El Chapo’s son wanted to turn himself in.

Joaquín Guzmán López was the financial brains behind the Sinaloa drug cartel that he and his three brothers had inherited from their father, Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, who was captured in 2016. The Mexican criminal group was responsible for sending billions of dollars worth of fentanyl across the U.S. border, feeding a national addiction to a synthetic opioid that has ravaged communities across America.

Federal agents doubted the offer was serious when Guzmán Lopez first made it. Then he upped the ante: He would work with U.S. authorities to capture Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, a 76-year-old don who had founded the Sinaloa cartel with El Chapo, said current and former U.S. and Mexican officials. Law enforcement found the offer even more dubious and questioned whether he would deliver on his promise.

Then, on Thursday, Zambada joined Guzmán López on a flight to have a look at land and clandestine airstrips in northern Mexico, according to people familiar with the operation. But instead, Guzmán López had secretly agreed with U.S. officials to touch down at an airport near El Paso, Texas, these people said.

Upon landing, U.S. officials took both men into custody. It was one of the most important arrests of a Mexican drug lord in the past four decades. Homeland Security Investigations led the case in conjunction with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Zambada’s attorney declared his client not guilty at the El Paso federal court on Friday.

Guzmán López wanted to avoid what he feared would be a violent end to his drug-traffikcing career, according to a U.S. official and Oscar Hagelsieb, a former senior HSI agent in the border city of El Paso, Texas, familiar with the operation.

“Young cartel family members don’t necessarily want the fear and stress of leading a cartel,” he said. “They know what comes with being part of the family and being part of the cartel, and that’s violence and chaos.”

Guzmán López’s attorney declined to comment.

Hagelsieb said he believes Guzmán López is cooperating in exchange for a lesser sentence and seek to enjoy his drug-trafficking spoils while he is still young.


Over the past decade, the “Chapitos” had gained notoriety in the U.S. as they funneled millions of fentanyl pills across the southwest border. HSI, a little-known U.S. law-enforcement agency, was helping to dismantle their network, former and current U.S. officials said. The U.S. had placed a $5 million bounty on the head of Guzmán López and each of his brothers.

Last year, Mexican special forces captured Guzmán López’s brother Ovidio in a violent raid with intelligence provided by the U.S. In the attack, Black Hawk helicopters with mounted belt-fed miniguns strafed his compound in a town north of Culiacán, pushing back Ovidio’s inner security detail. By the time he was captured, about a hundred gunmen were dead, as well as 10 Mexican soldiers. U.S. and Mexican officials said.

Guzmán López and Zambada are “two of the most notorious leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel, one of the deadliest enterprises in the world,” President Biden said Friday. “Too many of our citizens have lost their lives to the scourge of fentanyl.”

The Mexican government didn’t participate “in that detention or surrender,” said Mexico’s security minister, Rosa Icela Rodríguez. The government had been informed of the event by the U.S. Embassy, she said at a news conference Friday. Mexico asked for, and received, photographs and fingerprints of the two men, confirming their identities. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador was notified of the arrests on Thursday afternoon.


Rodríguez, who said there were four outstanding warrants for Zambada, repeatedly underlined the close cooperation between the U.S. and Mexican government on law-enforcement matters.

She said that Guzmán López and Zambada took off on a Cessna aircraft. She identified an American pilot as having flown the plane that allegedly took the two Sinaloa bosses to the U.S.

But the pilot identified by Mexican officials as Larry Curtis Parker told The Wall Street Journal that his Cessna was mistakenly singled out because it was parked near a different aircraft in Hermosillo, the capital of northern Sonora state. He said that he routinely flies to Hermosillo for hunting and fishing and that he flew back this week by himself to New Mexico.

News footage suggests a larger, twin-engine Beechcraft King Air might have shuttled the two suspects back to the U.S. A government spokesman declined to comment.


https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/...o-zambada-and-turned-himself-in-14bfc7ce

I applaud Joaquín Guzmán López for turning this scumbag motherfucker in and wanting to turn his life around. Good for him. Who the hell wants to lead a life like this? After having lost a close friend to fentanyl, I could not be more happy right now lol

They are too greedy and should have never get involved in that business. Fentanyl is a game changer. It's also sad how individuals suffering from chronic pain eventually became opioid addicts. Coolio, Tom Petty, Prince to name a few victims.

It's appalling how many good people, with so much life left to live, had their lives cut short because of this evil. Defending someone like El Mayo shows a complete lack of humanity

His father is gone, his brothers one by one are captured or about to be. He would die alone and more than likely have to live his life in hiding from his enemies and authorities.

It was time.

It is presumed that his son Ismael Zambada Sicairos, alias “El Mayito Flaco,” could be his heir.

https://www.dea.gov/fugitives/ismael-zambada-sicairos

I will bet you that these animals will find someone close to Joaquín Guzmán López and murder them in the worst way to send a message

Absolutely.

People in the Mexican government are also worried, no Mexican agencies were involved in the operation to arrest Zambada that says something.

Ovidio Guzman, from Los Chapitos, Not Released, Just Transferred
By HEARST 7/25/2024 07:50:00 PM 195 comments
Borderland Beat Contributors

Sinaloa Cartel figure Ovidio Guzman is currently being listed as having been freed from US custody on the Bureau of Prisons website, bop.gov.

His current listed release date is 7/23/2024, just two days before the major arrest of Joaquin Guzman Lopez and Mayo Zambada.

His BOP Prisoner Number is 72884-748, as noted during his first appearance before a judge in Chicago last September.

10:17 pm

LibroNegro, on Twitter, reports that Ovidio is still in prison and his status as "released" is due to him being transferred.

10:23 pm

Journalist Arturo Ángel would report that while Ovidio appears to of been released from custody, his case remains pending in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, confirming he has not been freed from criminal prosecution as of yet.

https://www.borderlandbeat.com/2024/07/ovidio-guzman-released-days-before.html

Seems like the two Guzman brothers both made a deal like two sons of Zambada did with El Chapo.

Mexico’s Powerful Sinaloa Cartel Faces War?


Mexican kingpin Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada’s arrest with El Chapo’s son likely to set off violent jockeying for power

By Associated Press
A new era is coming for Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa cartel in the wake of the capture by US authorities of Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, the last of the grand old Mexican drug traffickers.

Experts believe his arrest will usher in a new wave of violence in Mexico even as Zambada could potentially provide loads of information for US prosecutors.

Zambada, who had eluded authorities for decades and had never set foot in prison, was known for being an astute operator, skilled at corrupting officials and having an ability to negotiate with everyone, including rivals.

Removing him from the criminal landscape could set off an internal war for control of the cartel that has a global reach — as has occurred with the arrest or killings of other kingpins — and open the door to the more violent inclinations of a younger generation of Sinaloa traffickers, experts say.
With that in mind, the Mexican government deployed 200 members of its special forces Friday to Culiacan, Sinaloa state’s capital.

There is “significant potential for high escalation of violence across Mexico,” said Vanda Felbab-Brown, a senior fellow in the Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy and Technology at the Brookings Institution.
That “is bad for Mexico, it’s bad for the United States, as well as the possibility that the even more vicious (Jalisco New Generation cartel) will rise to even greater importance.”
For that reason, Zambada’s arrest could be considered a “great tactical success,” but strategically problematic, Felbab-Brown said.

While details remain scarce, a United States official who spoke on condition of anonymity said Zambada was tricked into flying to the US, where he was arrested along with Joaquín Guzmán López, a son of the infamous Sinaloa leader Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán.
The elder Guzmán is serving a life sentence in the United States.
A small plane left Hermosillo in northern Mexico on Thursday morning with only an American pilot aboard, bound for the airport in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, near El Paso, Texas.
Mexican Security Secretary Rosa Icela Rodríguez said Friday that while one person left Hermosillo, three people arrived in New Mexico.

The flight tracking site Flight Aware showed the plane stopped transmitting its elevation and speed for about half an hour over the mountains of northern Mexico before resuming its course to the US.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a vocal critic of the strategy of taking down drug kingpins, said Friday that Mexico had not participated or known about the US operation, but said he considered the arrests an “advance.”

Later, López Obrador, while talking about where the Sinaloa and Jalisco cartels are battling for control of smuggling routes along the Guatemala border on Friday, downplayed the violence that had driven nearly 600 Mexicans to seek refuge in Guatemala this week.

He said, as he often has, that it’s his political adversaries who are trying to make Mexico’s violence appear to be out of control.
But those cartels were already fighting each other in many locations throughout Mexico before Zambada’s arrest.
Frank Pérez, a lawyer for Zambada, told The Associated Press that his client “did not come to the US voluntarily.”
It appeared the sons of “El Chapo” Guzmán were somehow in on the trap for Zambada, said José Reveles, author of a number of books about the cartels.

The so-called Chapitos, or Little Chapos, make up a faction within the Sinaloa cartel that was often at odds with Zambada even while trafficking drugs.
Guzmán López, who was also arrested Thursday, “is not his friend nor his collaborator,” Reveles said.
He is considered to be the least influential of the four brothers who make up the Chapitos, who are considered among the main exporters of the synthetic opioid fentanyl to the United States.

Joaquín Guzmán López is now the second of them to land in US custody. Their chief of security was arrested by Mexican authorities in November.
Guzmán López has been accused of being the cartel’s link for importing the precursor chemicals used to make fentanyl from Asia and for setting up the labs that produce the drug, Reveles said.

Anne Milgram, the US Drug Enforcement Administration chief, said that Zambada’s arrest “strikes at the heart of the cartel that is responsible for the majority of drugs, including fentanyl and methamphetamine, killing Americans from coast to coast.”

During the current Mexican administration, which ends Sept. 30, Mexico has been unable to control the country’s violence.
López Obrador’s decision to focus on alleviating what he sees as the root causes of violence instead of head-on confrontation with the cartels has caused tensions with the US authorities, in particular the DEA.

Felbab-Brown said it has also allowed the cartels to accumulate power that “is unprecedented in Mexico’s history.”
Zambada could now offer reams of information about the cartel’s operations if he decides to cooperate. He faces charges in multiple US federal courts.

He was the cartel’s most skilled agent of corruption and the most influential trafficker who “has been running extensive corruption networks across many administrations in Mexico, across vast geographic spaces, from the top of the Mexican government to municipal institutions,” Felbab-Brown said.

“The most important thing to watch is how much intelligence El Mayo will now provide and how much evidence in exchange for better terms,” she said.

Mexico is already a bloodbath, what worse could happen?

I do believe the future Sinaloa leaders will ban prohibiting the production and sale of fentanyl. It does not mean the Sinaloa cartel will suddenly cease its fentanyl operations and shipments. That portion of the business brings in incredible amounts of cash and there are many thousands of people involved in the trade across multiple countries, so a fentanyl ban would be complex and take time to unwind.

The drug business started out as a means to provide the elite with a substance that made things more fun. Not kill off your customers.

I do believe the cartels have realized fentanyl is bad for business.

This fentanyl is about 80 times stronger as morphine lol it should be only used in hospitals.

Absolutely.

One reason for the high mortality rates associated with fentanyl use is its extremely high efficacy and narrow therapeutic index ( LD50 ? ED50 = 277, as opposed to 25,211 for sufentanil ). [18] Fentanyl can be fatal in an adult of normal weight as little as 2 mg. [19] [20] Fentanyl is increasingly used to cut heroin . If the fentanyl is not properly distributed through the heroin, fatal fentanyl hotspots occur. [21] Fentanyl, which is cut or sold directly on the black market, comes partly from legal pharmaceutical and partly from illegal production. [22]

By altering residues in the fentanyl molecule, a range of different designer drugs are synthesized, such as methylfentanyl and benzylfentanyl.

Inside the cartel coup that saw El Chapo’s son lure rival drug kingpin ‘El Mayo’ to the US to be arrested: ‘Once-in-a-lifetime caper’


https://nypost.com/2024/07/28/us-ne...e-rival-drug-kingping-el-mayo-to-the-us/

Cartel Del Noreste or C.D.N. criminal organization distanced itself from fentanyl drug trafficking in a video that is about two minutes long. C.D.N. is currently commanded by Juanito Cisneros Treviño "La Sombra", and Carlos Alberto Monsivais Treviño "La Bola Treviño" both cousins. La Bola Treviño and La Sombra are believed to have a close relationship with their uncles Miguel Treviño Morales "40" and Oscar Omar Treviño Morales "42".

https://www.borderlandbeat.com/2024/07/cartel-del-noreste-cdn-distanced.html

It's interesting that El Chapo's brother Aureliano Guzmán Loera runs another faction of Sinaloa.
There are three factions of the cartel, one led by the sons of Joaquín el Chapo Guzmán, another by El Mayo Zambada and the third by Aureliano Guzmán Loera, El Guano.

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 top Mexican drug lord Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada and Joaquín Guzmán López.

President Andrés Manuel López 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.

“Those who are engaged in these illegal activities know they resolve nothing with confrontations,” López Obrador said, adding “they would go out and risk the lives of other human beings, and why make families suffer?”

“I trust that there will be no confrontations,” he said, despite the fact the army announced over the weekend that it had sent an additional 200 elite soldiers from a paratrooper unit to the state of Sinaloa just in case.

Mexican attorney claims El Chapo's son and El Mayo 'voluntarily surrendered' to American authorities

https://abc7chicago.com/post/attorn...rrendered-american-authorities/15129263/

Cartel leader kidnapped to US 'had meeting with politicians'
August 10, 2024


A statement by the recently kidnapped leader of the Sinaloa cartel Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada García (76) to the United States once again shows a disturbing intertwining between the underworld and the upper world in Mexico. On the day of his kidnapping on July 25, “El Mayo” says he had an appointment with the governor of the state of Sinaloa and, among others, the former rector of the University of Sinaloa.

By @Wim van de Pol

The statement was provided to the Los Angeles Times by an attorney for Zambada .

Until now, it was known that El Mayo was involuntarily put on a plane after having an appointment with the son Joaquín of the former leader of the Sinaloa cartel Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera. Together they then flew to Texas where they were arrested. It also leaked that this Joaquín Guzmán had had contacts with the FBI.

University management
El Mayo now describes his version of events in his statement.

He says Joaquín Guzmán López had asked him to come to a meeting in the Sinaloa capital, Culiacán. The two top criminals of the Sinaloa cartel were supposed to help mediate a dispute over who would lead the state’s university. The governor of Sinaloa, Rubén Rocha Moya (pictured right), and a former university rector, Héctor Melesio Cuén (pictured left), a renowned academic and politician from Sinaloa, from the regional party PAS, were supposed to be present.

El Mayo says that upon entering, he greeted Héctor Cuén and one of his assistants. That was the last time he saw him alive. Cuén was murdered later that night.

Dark room
El Mayo also writes that the ranch just outside the city where the meeting was to take place was teeming with men in green uniforms, who he said were security for Joaquín Guzmán.

El Mayo:

I saw Joaquin Guzmán López, whom I have known since he was a child. He gestured for me to follow him. I trusted that the meeting I had planned would really take place and I followed him without hesitation. They led me to a room where it was dark.

El Mayo says he was overpowered in that room, handcuffed and taken with Guzmán to a plane flying to a small airport in Texas in the United States.

It is believed that Guzmán surrendered voluntarily with the intention of making a deal with US law enforcement after several years of contact with the FBI.

Gasoline pump
El Mayo Zambada says he arrived at the ranch with four of his bodyguards. It has since become clear that two of them have disappeared without a trace. He says that Héctor Cuén must also have been murdered there that night.

The official story is that Cuén was shot dead the following night by unknown persons on a motorcycle at a gas station.

"That's not what happened," said El Mayo, who called Cuén "a friend" in his statement. The local Public Prosecutor's Office investigation has not yet yielded any results.

"I think it's important that the truth comes out. This is what happened, not the false stories that are circulating," Zambada said.

https://www.crimesite.nl/naar-vs-ontvoerd-kartel-kopstuk-had-afspraak-met-politici/

Can we all admit this cartel is pretty much defunct now?

Nah Sinaloa has connections all over the world even with important Middle Eastern drug traffickers, such as Turkish drug groups and Lebanon’s Hezbollah. The relationship between the Sinaloa Cartel and Turkish crime gangs apparently began in the early 2010s.

But we do see a process of Criminal Fragmentation. The disappearance of the big drug cartels has led to the creation of smaller gangs.
Sinaloa drug bosses will however always be involved.

Well this is interesting.

El Chapo's son charged with kidnapping rival boss Zambada
AMDuemila August 23, 2024
The governments of Mexico and the United States deny having planned the operation that ended with the arrest of "El Mayo"
Mexico's attorney general's office announced it will seek the arrest of a son of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán , accused of allegedly kidnapping drug trafficker Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada , 76, founder of the Sinaloa cartel along with "Chapo" Guzmán, who is serving a life sentence in the United States, to hand him over to the United States. The agency also said it had identified the runway from which the private plane that Joaquín Guzmán López , one of the so-called " chapitos ," and Zambada took off on July 25 for New Mexico, United States, where they were captured by federal agents. "The request for an arrest warrant for kidnapping and also for the illegal deprivation of liberty of a person in the national territory to hand him over to the authorities of another country is already prepared," the attorney general's office said, without providing details on the location of the runway.

The governments of Mexico and the United States deny having planned the operation that ended with the arrest of "El Mayo". The announcements of the Mexican Attorney's Office give credence to Zambada's version, spread through his lawyer, according to which he was kidnapped and handed over by Guzmán Lòpez during a meeting to which he had invited him to mediate in a conflict between the governor of Sinaloa Rubén Rocha and the elected representative Héctor Cuén . Rocha, co-supporter of Mexican President Lòpez Obrador , denies any complicity with the drug kingpins and assures that on the day of the events he was in Los Angeles, United States. According to "El Mayo", for which Washington offered 15 million dollars, the representative Cuén was killed at the meeting place, near the city of Culiacán, capital of Sinaloa. The Attorney General's Office also said it had located "the property where the probable crimes of illegal deprivation of liberty, murder, injuries and acts related to forced disappearance". Likewise, he again denied the version of the Sinaloa Prosecutor's Office according to which Cuén was murdered at a gas station in Culiacán during an alleged robbery attempt. In the letter in which he reported his kidnapping, Zambada claimed to have gone to the site with four bodyguards, including an alleged missing Sinaloa police chief. Governor Rocha confirmed on Monday that ten people were killed last weekend in connection with the capture of "El Mayo", after which 600 soldiers were deployed to strengthen security in Culiacán, in addition to the 400 sent days earlier.

El Chapo's son freed in exchange for El Mayo's kidnapping?
August 31, 2024


The mystery surrounding the violent kidnapping to the United States of Sinaloa drug lord Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada García (76) is growing. Because the Mexican Public Prosecutor’s Office has made a statement on Friday linking the release in the United States of a son (photo) of the life-sentenced “El Chapo” Guzmán and the kidnapping by plane of El Mayo to the US. Was the action the result of a deal between the Americans and the “Chapitos”, the sons of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán?

Lifetime
El Chapo was sentenced to life in prison in the United States a few years ago. His sons took over some of the activities of the Sinaloa drug cartel.

“El Mayo” Zambada was Sinaloa's second man after El Chapo, and had been a fugitive for many years.

Within the Sinaloa cartel, there was growing tension between the “Chapitos”, the sons of El Chapo, and the clan around El Mayo.

El Paso
In mid-July there was the sensational news that El Mayo had been arrested at an airport near El Paso in the United States. Joaquín Guzmán Lopéz (38), one of El Chapo's sons, was also arrested by the Americans on that plane.

Then it came out, through a statement from “El Mayo” through his lawyer in the United States, that he had been kidnapped by force by Joaquín Guzmán Lopéz and put in handcuffs on the plane to El Paso. Earlier it had leaked out that Joaquín Guzmán had maintained contacts with the FBI for years.

This led to the suggestion that Joaquín Guzmán had struck a deal with the US authorities through the transfer of El Mayo.

A few days before El Mayo's arrival in the US, brother Ovidio Guzmán was released from pre-trial detention in the United States.

Joaquin Guzman Lopez
Proof
And now the Mexican Attorney General's Office has announced that it has evidence that the release of Ovidio Guzmán López in the United States is "related" to the arrest of Ismael "Mayo" Zambada. What kind of evidence that would be has not been disclosed.

Mexico's Attorney General's Office says it is unaware of Ovidio Guzmán's current whereabouts or status in the United States, where he was extradited in 2023 on charges of drug trafficking and money laundering.

Disagreement
Mexican media write that there would be great disagreement between the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and the United States, among other things about the kidnapping of El Mayo. That would have happened with the knowledge of the United States, while the Mexican government knew nothing about it.

https://www.crimesite.nl/zoon-el-chapo-vrij-in-ruil-voor-ontvoering-el-mayo/

As feared full warfare.

Mexico, Sinaloa Cartel Internal Feud: 15 Dead
AMDuemila September 14, 2024
A total of 14 open investigation files and 15 deaths. This is the latest toll of the violent war that began on Monday between the Chapitos and the Mayos, the two factions into which the Sinaloa cartel has split and headed, respectively, by " Chapo " Guzmán and " Mayo " Zambada , both detained in the United States. The Attorney General, Claudia Zulema Sánchez, confirmed this to local media . " From Monday to today, 15 murders have been registered ," she declared. Last September 9, the governor of Sinaloa, Rocha Moya, was forced to suspend classes in all schools and universities in the capital, Culiacán, and had requested military reinforcements from Mexico City to guarantee the safety of citizens. Today, two bodies were recovered, one of them decapitated and with signs of torture on various parts of the body, near Park 87, a popular green area in Culiacán with attractions including slides, swimming pools and a 'peace garden.'

Mexico president blames U.S. for cartel killings as violence surges in Sinaloa after leaders arrested

https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/...loa-leaders-arrested/?intcid=CNR-01-0623

Its chaos in Mexico right now, i mean it always is but now its totally crazy, all the videos and photos im seeing...

This will get worse no end in sight, maybe even car bombs or drones are next.

Civil war in the home of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel: Fear grips Culiacan
Recent abduction and arrest of a top drug lord has set off a vicious war inside Mexico’s most violent cartel.

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/...xicos-sinaloa-cartel-fear-grips-culiacan

Mayo Faction Drops Propaganda Flyers from Planes Against Los Chapitos

Uprisings, Tortures, Murders, Kidnappings, Extortion. These are the crimes headlined on propaganda leaflets dropped by planes across Sinaloa. The front of the flyer calls out the Los Chapitos Faction of the Sinaloa Cartel as snitches, labeling them Cartel "Los Sapitos" and asking the public to report those they recognize.

It has all of the markings, information and contact numbers of legitimate government and law enforcement agencies. This includes local Culiacan Military Zone 9, the Mexican military including including SEMAR and SEDENA as well as the official tip email for the DEA.

Jesús Zambada García, the brother of the recently kidnapped and captured Sinaloa leader, Ismael Zambada García, in the United States. testified that he personally put millions of dollars in two sports bags that García Luna gave him at the Champs Élysées restaurant in Mexico City, shortly after he became the country's Minister of Public Security.
The former Mexican minister who was responsible for the fight against organized crime from 2006 to 2012 has been sentenced by a judge in New York to 38 years in prison and a fine of 2 million dollars.
Cartel members agreed to pool up to $50m to pay for his protection.

Mexico’s former public security chief sentenced to 38 years in US drug case
Genaro Garcia Luna was convicted of taking millions of dollars in bribes to protect the violent Sinaloa drug cartel.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024...ty-chief-to-be-sentenced-in-us-drug-case

Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, a longtime leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel who is facing drug trafficking charges in a U.S. court, appeared for the first time Friday before the judge who is presiding over his case.

Zambada, 76, appeared at a status conference in Brooklyn federal court before District Court Judge Brian Cogan, who sentenced fellow cartel kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán to life behind bars after he was convicted on drug trafficking charges in 2019.


https://apnews.com/article/el-mayo-...l-court-7b2da1495672028c14de30dec329f542

Bloodshed Caused by Sinaloa Cartel Spreads In Mexico
Paul Singh
October 25, 2024
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Warring Violence in Sinaloa
As of September 21, the violence in Sinaloa, Mexico has killed more than 50 people with 51 missing, according to Reuters. This violence leaves many towns, cities and neighboring states paralyzed. The government is sending numerous soldiers to reassure safety in the region. According to Al Jazeera, “Mexican authorities said on Saturday that another 600 soldiers had arrived in Sinaloa to help reinforce security.”

For the violence to end in Sinaloa, some believe it is dependent on the two rival cartels to stop. “On Monday, the regional army commander, Jesús Leana Ojeda, said the possibility of the situation calming down does not depend on them. ‘It depends on the antagonistic groups to stop confronting each other,’ he said at a news briefing,” according to the AP.

Former President of Mexico Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador claims the U.S. was partially responsible for the violence. United States Ambassador for Mexico Ken Salazar denies the former president’s claim.

This month, the newly appointed President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, has been sworn into office during this wave of violence in the country. “However, after being elected president in June, she pledged: ‘I commit myself to you to lead Mexico along the path of peace, security, democracy, freedom, equality and justice.’ And Sheinbaum is certainly no stranger to tackling crime,” according to The Conversation, a network of nonprofit media outlets. President Sheinbaum`s term comes after former President Obrador`s term has completed, since Mexico has a single six-year term policy for presidents.

President Sheinbaum is expected to have a massive challenge with a nation riddled with death. According to The New York Times, “Ms. Sheinbaum will be in charge of a nation plagued by over 30,000 murders a year, 90 percent of which go unsolved, and she will have to face the powerful cartels behind those numbers, which are now networks of paramilitary organized crime and deeply embedded in communities.”

Events Leading up to the Violence
On September 9, violence in Sinaloa was escalated by two rival factions of the Sinaloa Cartel, after two cartel leaders were arrested late in July, resulting in frequent clashes in Culiacan, the capital of the state.

An arrest of El Mayo along with another Sinaloa cartel leader has been organized by the son of El Chapo Guzman, Joaquin Guzman Lopez. According to CNN, “Guzman Lopez organized his arrest along with that of Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada, 76, who co-founded the cartel with El Chapo, by luring Zambada on a flight to examine a piece of land he thought was in Mexico, an official familiar with the operation told CNN.”

“Joaquin Guzman Lopez, a senior crime boss in a rival faction of the Sinaloa Cartel who had been holding talks with the U.S. about surrendering,” Reuters reported.

Experts including Mike Vigil, a former U.S Drug Enforcement Administration agent, says that Guzman Lopez exchanged Zambada for benefits for himself along with his brother Ovidio Guzman Lopez, according to Al Jazeera.

Even though Zambada was arrested for a handful of charges, he might not face prison due to the result of his charge. According to Voice Of America, “Zambada has pleaded not guilty to seven federal charges in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas. Most of the charges involve drug trafficking, use of firearms and homicide.”

Effects of Cartel Violence
The violence in Sinaloa has not only affected people there, but has spread to neighboring states, like Sonora, Baja California, Chihuahua and Durango.

There are homicides on the street, children are not going to school and businesses close early.

According to El Pais, a newspaper from Spain, “‘You see fewer people on the streets and businesses close early,’ says Eduardo López, a freelance journalist from Ciudad Obregon, in southern Sonora, near Sinaloa and one of the cities with the highest number of homicides in the country.”

“As the warring cartel factions and authorities have clashed in firefights, helicopters regularly circle overhead and military rove the streets of the capital. Families have said they are scared to send their children to school,” according to the Associated Press.

Due to the ongoing violence in Mexico, Americans are instructed to be cautious while traveling in the country, like making sure to “avoid getting caught up with unexpected street violence,” while canceling vacations and business trips to Mexico is not recommended yet, according to the Border Report.

Brief History of the Sinaloa Cartel
According to Britannica, the Sinaloa cartel traces its roots from the Guadelajara cartel, which was one of the largest crime organizations in Mexico during the early 1980s. There was a crackdown on the cartel after they tortured and murdered DEA agent Enrique Camarena Salazar in 1985. By the end of the 1980s, the Guadelajara cartel separated into various groups, which led to one cartel based in Sinaloa.

The Sinaloa cartel is one of the oldest cartels that originated from the Guadelajara cartel. They are responsible for supplying drugs on the streets of the U.S., including marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamine and fentanyl, CNN reports.

The Colombia cartels were also active during the 1980s. The Colombian cartels were declining in the early 90s, which led to a rise in popularity with Mexican cartels.

According to Britannica, “As Mexico gained popularity as a drug route, the strength of its criminal organizations grew, especially that of the Sinaloa cartel, which benefited from Guzman’s innovative methods of smuggling, notably through tunnels, and his extensive use of bribes.”

El Chapo Ascent to Power
“Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán’s ascent to power resulted from a combination of factors, including his strategic leadership within the Sinaloa Cartel, his ruthless tactics, and the dynamics of the drug trade in Mexico,” according to El Pais.

Between 1992 and 1993, there was a battle between the Sinaloa cartel and the Tijuana cartel. According to InSight Crime, “In November 1992, Guzmán sent 40 armed men to break into a Tijuana Cartel party in Puerto Vallarta, killing nine people. The Tijuana Cartel responded by trying to assassinate Guzmán at the Guadalajara airport in 1993, but instead assassinated a Mexican Catholic cardinal.”

In 1993, El Chapo had fled to Guatemala, but he was captured near the border of Mexico and Guatemala, and two years after, was transferred to another prison. According to Time Magazine, “The maximum security prison Puente Grande, where he was transferred in 1995, became his new base of operations.”

El Mayo`s Role in the Sinaloa Cartel
Before El Mayo was arrested, he was one of the last old-school drug caporegimes, which are heads of the branch of organized crime syndicates. He was in charge of various operations of the cartel.

“The millions of dollars generated from the drug sales were then transported back to Mexico,” according to the Justice Department.

“To ensure the success of the cartel, Zambada Garcia employed individuals to obtain transportation routes and warehouses to import and store narcotics, and “sicarios,” or hit men, to carry out kidnappings and murders in Mexico to retaliate against rivals who threatened the cartel,” the Justice Department continued.

“El Mayo also allegedly expanded the power and influence of the Sinaloa Cartel by making millions of dollars each year in corruption payments and conducting regular campaigns of brutal violence, including retaliatory murders that were allegedly committed on his orders as recently as just weeks prior to his arrest,” the Justice Department added.

https://theowp.org/reports/bloodshed-caused-by-sinaloa-cartel-spreads-in-mexico/

Thanks to Marco Ebben !

An armed branch of the "Mayos" faction of the Sinaloa Cartel, known as the "Comanches", has decided to identify themselves by wearing the Dutch flag. They are currently in the middle of an armed conflict against the "Chapitos" faction of the cartel for control over Culiacán after the arrest of Ismael Zambada in the US.

https://preview.redd.it/mexican-car...b5fd617ff2f67599938d73c0ed0413691a472c55

The Netherlands flag is worn by gunmen under the leadership of 'El Comanche' of the 'La Mayiza' Faction. El Comanche is the head of security for El Mayito Flaco.

'Los Chapitos' have teamed up with Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG). This alliance is called FEU.

On Tuesday, October 22, the sound of a small plane flying over the warm city of Culiacán in the state of Sinaloa marked the start of a new day: another day in the ongoing faction war within the same criminal organization.

The residents of Culiacán witnessed a shower of leaflets dropped from the plane by men onboard. The message, printed in black ink with the initials "MF" in the background, warned the people of Sinaloa that they "would not rest until they entered Culiacán."

"We want to restore order and put an end to the abuses committed by the 'Chapos'. To do that, we need to overthrow this government that supports them," the statement, signed in the name of 'La Mayiza', added. This faction is led by Ismael Zambada Sicairos, known as 'El Mayito Flaco,' son of the legendary drug lord of the same name.

In red letters, the message included a phone number with a Sinaloa area code. "I ask you to report any abuse, corruption, businesses, and addresses of the governor, his children, and his cabinet to this number," the message said.

If Marco Ebben was indeed killed we would have seen some kind of proof the only thing we heard was that his Russian girlfriend claimed she saw his body in a mortuary. I don't buy it why not send his body back to Holland for a proper funeral.