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Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada, founding leader of the legendary Sinaloa cartel, will be sentenced in New York on Monday (July 20, 2026), a ruling expected to send Mexico’s last old-school druglord to prison for life. After a journey from poor farmworker to one of the world’s most powerful and wealthy criminal bosses, Zambada was arrested…
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Zambada co-founded the Sinaloa Cartel with El Chapo. (File) Mexico City: Alleged Mexican kingpin Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada has pleaded not guilty to U.S. drug trafficking charges, court records showed on Friday, after he and a son of another drug lord were arrested on Thursday in El Paso, Texas. Court records showed that Zambada on…
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This combination of pictures created on July 26, 2024, shows an undated image obtained from the US Department of State of Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada Garcia (L), cofounder of the Sinaloa Cartel; and an undated image obtained from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement of Joaquin Guzman Lopez, a son of the cartel’s other co-founder, Joaquin…
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