Chicago was a key hub for the cartel, which Zambada and co-founder Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán Loera ruled through torture and ...

NexFuture (July 21, 2026) — In a landmark ruling that officially closes one of the darkest and most expansive chapters in the ...

InSight Crime's Deborah Bonello and Victoria Dittmar break down how El Mayo's sentencing won't end the war in Sinaloa and ...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. – Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada García, the elusive co-founder and long-time kingpin of the Sinaloa Cartel, was ...

One of the world's most notorious drug traffickers and a longtime leader of the Sinaloa Cartel has been sentenced to life in ...

Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, the former head of the Sinaloa drug cartel, has been sentenced to life in a United States prison ...

Former Mexican drug kingpin Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada was sentenced in a U.S. court on Monday to life in prison and called for an end to the brand of brutal violence he used for decades to grow the ...

Mexican drug kingpin Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, co-founder of the Sinaloa cartel, was sentenced to life in prison in the ...

Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, a co-founder and longtime leader of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel, was sentenced to life in U.S. prison ...

Sinaloa Cartel co-founder Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada was sentenced to life after pleading guilty to leading a vast drug empire.

Ismael Zambada was a top leader of the drug-trafficking syndicate alongside Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán.

Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada co-founded Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel with Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán and led the criminal organization ...