A leader of the powerful Sinaloa cartel for decades alongside Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, Zambada is one of the most powerful drug traffickers in the world and known for running the cartel’s smuggling operations while keeping a lower profile.
TheTijuana-basedSinaloa cartel, which has operated since the 1980s, is one of Mexico's most powerful and violent criminal organizations. Zambada founded the cartel along with"El Chapo,"who wascapturedin 2016 and is currently serving a life sentence in a maximum security prison in the U.S. a...
Yepez said he feared the authorities would frame his mother as one of the leaders of the cartel. "In my mother's and my people name...I don't fear you," he said. Yepez also said he could form a coalition with the Sinaloa cartel or other crime groups in the north to ...
The US government has invoked the Kingpin Act against two sons of notorious drug trafficker Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera, leader of the Sinaloa cartel, also known as the Pacific cartel. The move allows the US Treasury Department to seize the US assets of Ivan Archivaldo Guzman Salazar and...
The younger Zambada was charged himself andmade a plea dealin the long-running and sprawling U.S. prosecutions of Sinaloa cartel figures. Hetestified for the governmentat the trial of the cartel's infamous andnow imprisonedco-founder, Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán...
“We want the government to know that if citizen Jorge Luis Ochoa is extradited to the United States, we will declare total and absolute war against the entire political leadership of the country,” the statement said. “We will execute without any hesitation the main political leaders of the...
Genaro García Luna, Mexico’s former secretary of public security, was convicted by a New York jury in 2023 of taking millions of dollars in bribes to protect the violent Sinaloa cartel that he was supposedly combating. He is the highest-level Mexican governmen...
As the Mexican government intensified its efforts to arrest suspected drug lords, he eluded capture, but other cartel leaders were imprisoned, weakening organizations and giving rise to splinter groups. In the ensuing turf battles, a wave of unprecedented violence swept Mexico. Sinaloa notably gained...
“El Mayo” Zambada was also indicted by a US federal grand jury in April 2012, in Texas, along with other suspected top Sinaloa leaders and 22 people allegedly connected with the cartel, including Guzman. They were charged with murder and conspiracy connected with drug trafficking, money launde...
[p. 101], Consistent with previous years, the Sinaloa Cartel maintains the widest national influence, with its most dominant positions along the West Coast, in the Midwest, and in the Northeast. [p. 102], Mexican TCOs also transport illicit drugs to the United States aboard commercial cargo...