MEXICO CITY — Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, who co-founded Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel with Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán and led the criminal organization after Guzmán‘s 2016 capture, was sentenced by a U.S.

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Ismael Zambada García, better known as El Mayo, used an army of hit men and widespread political corruption to smuggle illegal drugs into the United States. By Santul Nerkar See more of our coverage ...

Ismael Zambada Garcia, alias “El Mayo,” was the leader of a faction of the Sinaloa Cartel. Along with Joaquín Guzmán Loera, alias “El Chapo,” El Mayo is one of the most storied drug traffickers in ...

Former Mexican drug kingpin Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada was sentenced in a U.S. court Monday to life in prison, seven years after his Sinaloa cartel co-founder Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán was handed the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A Mexican cartel leader who helped shape the modern illegal drug trade and has agreed to one of the largest ...

One of the most notorious figures in Mexico's drug cartels, Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, will spend the rest of his life in prison, a US judge has ruled, two years after the kingpin was lured to the US ...

The United States filed charges against five alleged senior figures in the Jalisco Cartel New Generation (Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación – CJNG) for drug trafficking, weapons offenses, and fraud.