Mexican drug lord ‘El Mayo’ pleads guilty to racketeering in New York | US crime

Mexican drug lord Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, The Founding Partner of The Sinaloa Cartel was found guilty of federal tribute charges, and on Monday, more than a year after a year after a year, after being identified as kidnapping in Texas, it took more than a year after being arrested in Texas.

77 -year -old Zambada, through a Spanish interpreter in the court, “Illegal drugs in the United States and Mexico I know the great damage to people,” he said. “I apologize for all of them and I take responsibility for my actions.”

Zambada helped to establish a feared Sinaloa cartel in the late 1980s, and at the summit of the criminal operation, from Mexico to the United States, heroin, methamphetamine and fentanyl production and shipment of most of the shipment.

In July 2024, the smuggler was arrested by US officials Joaquín, the son of Sinaloa, who was accepted as the Director of Sinaloa Cartel and is currently considered a life expectancy in an American prison, when he came to a plane with Joaquín Guzmán López, son of Guzmán’s son of Guzmán.

The United States claimed that Zambada had presided over a highly militarized cartridge with a special security forces equipped with strong weapons and a staff.Sicarios”Or assassinations, hitmen who kidnap and torture.

Under the leadership of Guzmán and Zambada, the prosecutors said that the Sinaloa cartel turned into the world’s largest drug trafficking organization, tons of cocaine controlled the movement from Colombia to the United States, and then controlled the movement of the phenomenals produced from Mexico’s mountain states and then Chinese pioneer chemicals.

In a former partner of the Juárez cartel, Zambada operates in a region known as the Golden Triangle, surrounded by Sinaloa, Durango and Chihuahua, Mexico. He started his career as a farmer, a freelance and small -time drug smugglers, carrying a small amount of marijuana and heroin. As a logistics expert, he helped to expand the operations of the Sinaloa cartel.

As in Guzman, drug trafficking became a family business: Zambada’s wife, four sons and four daughters once joined the logistics of drug trafficking. In 2019, a son Vicente Zambada Niebla said, “His father’s bribery budget was usually $ 1 million per month and that bribes go to many high -level Mexican public officials”.

Zambada’s defense agreement comes two weeks after saying that federal prosecutors in New York will not call the death penalty. Zambada’s lawyer Frank PerezHe told NBC News The decision “points to an important step to obtain a fair and fair solution”.

After being arrested in the Zambada US officials claimed He had not traveled to the United States, but he was deceived by the sons of Guzmán, who delivered themselves to American authorities to provide more convenient treatment.

Shortly after his arrest, he wrote that there was a “many wrong report ve and asked not everyone surrendered to the US officials from the very beginning, that he did not make an agreement or to come voluntarily.

“On the contrary, I was kidnapped and forced the US and opposed my request,” he wrote.

Zambada filed a petition to the Mexican government to be returned to the country. And Mexico said that he has explored everyone who involved in delivering the Mexican citizen as a betable crime to foreign agents.

Donald Trump’s defense agreement, Donald Trump’s management, put pressure on Mexico to demolish cartels and plans to start using military forces against organizations, including the US government as a terrorist groups.

In the early August, the New York Times reported Trump issued a directive to start using military force to prevent narcotic flow in the United States, which is typically assigned to law enforcement officers.

Zambada’s defense agreement filed a federal complaint that former Sinaloa partner Guzmán has recently faced a cruel and unusual imprisonment in the Supermax federal prison in Florence, Colorado.

For Guzmán, Human Rights Lawyers said that their customers had suffered severe sinus, ears, nose and throat pain for years without adequate medical care, and olmuylaştırma He has experienced severe sleep deprivation for years due to the imprisonment conditions in his cell ”.

Guzmán’s allegations of filing are kept in isolation of everything that means contrary to the constitution and unusual punishment. And the filing argues that Guzmán will see “irreparable damage” as a result of “contrary to the constitution”.

El Chapo’s lawyer David Lane Denver told 7 Guzmán claimed that he was “almost any human theme without any human theme”.

Lane, “he only speaks Spanish, and even Spanish -speaking guards are instructed to not interact with him or not to talk to him,” he said. “So this is a complete isolation of any human theme.

“Government control… The most dangerous being in the world is an uncontrolled and a government that can do everything he wants. [Guzmán] It protects all our fundamental rights against the government. “