Sinaloa Cartel Co-Founder ‘El Mayo’ to Plead Guilty in US (1)

Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, the co-founder of Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel, will plead guilty to drug-trafficking charges in a criminal case brought by US authorities.

Zambada will change his plea at a hearing in Brooklyn, New York, on Aug. 25, according to court records on Monday. The US alleges Zambada founded the violent drug organization with Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, who was tried, then convicted in the same courthouse in 2019.

Federal prosecutors allege the two men led a violent network that kidnapped and murdered people in both the US and Mexico and imported lethal quantities of fentanyl, ...