Inside the Sinaloa Cartel: One Year of Terror
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Inside the Sinaloa cartel: One year of terror
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – A firestorm has been raging along the Mexican Pacific Coast since shortly after a rogue airplane made an unauthorized landing in a small New Mexico airplane west of El Paso last summer. The airplane carried Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada and Joaquin Guzman Lopez, two major figures in the Sinaloa cartel. The third occupant was a pilot whose identity and nationality remain under debate. Guzman surrendered to U.S. authori…
A year of radicalized, exacerbated, unstoppable violence. A year in which Sinaloa became the battlefield after the internal fracture of the cartel that bears the name of that state. The fight to the death... Full note »
In July 2024, Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada was arrested in the United States after more than four decades at large. His capture generated a power vacuum inside the Sinaloa Cartel, which, months later, led to a bloody conflict between two factions: on the one hand, the sons of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, known as “Los Chapitos”; and on the other, those loyal to Zambada. During his trial in U.S. territory, May himself confessed to having bribed Mexican…
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