Cartel boss ‘El Mayo’ Zambada to plead guilty. Will he spill secrets?

Brooklyn – For more than twenty years, Ismael reigned from the shadows in the “El Mayo” zambada. The other best Mexican drug smugglers, while being killed or returned to the United States to confront justice, they easily settled on the Empire in the Zambada and exported tons of cocaine, Meth, heroin and Fentanil around the world.

Sinaloa cartel partner Joaquín “El Chapo”, long after the collapse of Guzmán, continued to work with impunity, which was always one step ahead of the law – finally caught him.

Now the question is whether or not it will take over others with it.

The 75 -year -old Zambada will begin to appear before a federal judge in Brooklyn in his legendary penalty career on Monday afternoon and to be guilty of a series of charges from the late 1980s to last year’s arrest. He accepted the money laundering, man kidnapping, murder and drug conspiracies.

Zamabada’s striking collapse began last July when El Paso came with a special jet at a small airport near Texas. Immediately afterwards, the rumors returned to Rumor be reunited with a few sons believed to have lived under the protection of witnesses after claiming that he was a medical treatment or his brother and his brother and guilty and cooperating with US officials to solve his own guilty cases.

However, Zambada strongly rejected that the arrival of the United States was predetermined. A few weeks after being detained, one of the sons of El Chapo claimed that Joaquín Guzmán López, the leader of the cartel fraction, known as Los Chapitos, was founded and kidnapped.

In a letter published by his lawyer, Zambada claimed that he was taken because he thought that there would be a meeting between Sinaloa’s governor and another leading politician, that he was forced to plane by the zipper, Zipper, Guzmán López and delivered to the US officials.

39 -year -old Guzmán López faces his own federal case in Chicago, where he was not found guilty of drug and conspiracy charges. His younger brother Ovidio Guzmán was recently found guilty of similar charges. Court Applications To explain that it agrees to cooperate with US researchers.

There is no indication that Zambada is a cooperation agreement. However, when the history of his family agrees with the fact that he agrees to be guilty rather than being tried, he can be ready to shed secrets of corruption.

From 2012 to 2017, Paul Crain, the senior official of Mexico for the US Drug Application Administration, said: “He knows more than anyone else.”

Crain, who retired from DAA, is now running a private security firm, it is not possible that federal prosecutors would accept an agreement that gives Kingpin less than life in prison.

He already survived the death penalty in the Zamba, but the government may increase other benefits, for example, to re -place family members in the United States for their safety, or to serve a softer place than the Colorado “Supermax” prison, where El Chapo and others are kept in total isolated in total isolated.

Craine said that he had information about 40 years of the highest level leadership of the army and the government. [in Mexico] He made direct payment and chosen. “

“He’s a baptized father, Craine Craine said. “Consistency in everything.”

Zambada’s case uses tariffs as a cudgel to force the action against President Trump’s Sinaloa cartel for a delicate moment in the US-Mexico relations, and others responsible for sending Fenanil and other drugs in the north opposite Rio Grande. Trump identified Zambada’s group and others as terrorist organizations earlier this year and increased the likelihood of the US army to take action on the Mexican side of the border.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum tried to soothe Trump by giving dozens of well -known senior cartel figures for prosecution by US officials, but Craine said these offers may not be enough.

“Now, targeting a high -level corrupt criminal figure has more value than the largest drug smugglers in Mexico,” he said.

Other former Federal law enforcement officers reiterated this assessment. Adam Braverman, a former US lawyer in San Diego, inspected a few indictments of Zambada and his sons, and described the criminal objection of Monday as “a monumental day for the Ministry of Justice”.

Braverman, who is now working in a private practice, said that if Zambada cooperates, it will not be enough to give up other cartel figures and make a bargain value.

“While on the top of the chain, there is no one else to cooperate against,” he said. “You are talking about generals, governors – potentially talking about the presidents of Mexico.”

Joaquín Guzmán Lopez (left on the left), the son of the Sinaloa Cartel leader known as “El Chapo ,, for a long time, the cartel boss Ismael“ El Mayo ”Zambada (right), El Paso in 2024, Partially corrected in the photos after his arrests in Texas.

(Mexican government)

In his last year’s letter last year, Zambada claimed that he was invited to a meeting near Sinaloa’s capital Culiacán, where he expects to interfere with a dispute between the former Mayor of the city Héctor Héctor Melesio Cuén and his political rival Sinaloa.

Melesio Cuén was shot and killed on the day of the arrest of Zambada. Rocha Moya, a member of Morena Party, rejected any information about the kidnapping plan and pointed out flight recordings that show him. A family trip to Los Angeles While playing events.

The Mexican Federal officials showed a few suspects in the investigation into the murder of Sinaloan state officials, including the sudden cream of Melesio Cuén’s body.

Already rising tensions, Mexico’s CIA equivalent of the former President of the National Intelligence Agency Guillermo Valdes Castellanos, Zambada’s objection means that some of Mexico’s political elites should now sweat, he said.

“[The Americans] They will focus on getting information about all politicians who protect them [El Mayo]To him army, police and so on.