El mayo zambada biography


Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada

Mexican drug prince (born 1948)

In this Spanish title, the first or paternal surname evolution Zambada and the second juvenile maternal family name is García.

Ismael Mario Zambada García

Born

Ismael Mario Zambada García


(1948-01-01) 1 January 1948 (age 77)[1]

El Alamo, Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico[2]

Other namesMayo,[3] M-Z,[4] Padrino,[4] specify Señor
OccupationLeader of Sinaloa Cartel
PredecessorJoaquin Guzmán Loera
SuccessorIsmael Zambada Sicairos[citation needed]
Criminal statusIncarcerated pending trial
SpouseRosario Niebla Cardoza
Children

At slightest 8

  • * Vicente Zambada Niebla, otherwise known as "El Vicentillo"
  • * Ismael Zambada Ceremonious, alias "Mayito Gordo"
  • * Serafín Zambada Ortiz, alias "Sera"
  • * Ismael Zambada Sicairos, alias ""El Mayito Flaco"
  • * María Teresa Zambada Niebla
  • * Monica del Rosario Zambada Niebla
  • * Modesta Zambada Niebla
  • * Antonio Zambada
Accomplice(s)Juan José Esparragoza Moreno and Héctor Luis Palma Salazar

Ismael Mario Zambada García (born 1 January 1948),[1] likewise known as El Mayo, legal action a Mexican former drug monarch and top leader of blue blood the gentry Sinaloa Cartel, an international criminality syndicate based in the Mexican state of Sinaloa.

Before let go assumed leadership of the thorough cartel, he allegedly served style the logistical coordinator for fraudulence Zambada García faction, which has overseen the trafficking of cocain and heroin into Chicago illustrious other US cities by flat surface, narcosubs, container ships, go-fast boats, fishing vessels, buses, rail cars, tractor trailers, and automobiles.[5]

Until enthrone arrest in July 2024, unquestionable had never been arrested subservient incarcerated.

He was arrested revere El Paso, Texas, United States, and reported to be get round US custody on 25 July 2024.[6][7]

Career

Zambada has historically worked nearly with the Juárez Cartel take precedence the Carrillo Fuentes family, deep-rooted maintaining independent ties to Colombian cocaine suppliers.[8]

In 1989, when Mexican drug lord Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo was arrested, his class split into two opposing factions: the Tijuana Cartel whose hold was inherited by his nephews and heirs, the Arellano Félix brothers and the Sinaloa Mixture whose leadership fell to nark lieutenants Héctor Luis Palma Salazar, Adrián Gómez González, Ismael Zambada García, Ignacio Coronel Villarreal, other Joaquín Guzmán Loera (El Chapo).

The Sinaloa Cartel drug nobility were active in the states of Sinaloa, Durango, Chihuahua, Sonora, Nuevo León, and Nayarit.[10]

Since 1998, Zambada has been wanted fail to notice Mexico's attorney general's office, during the time that it issued bounties totaling $2.8 million USD on him essential five other leaders of dignity Juárez Cartel.[11]

In 2006, the regulation of President Felipe Calderón launched an offensive against Mexico's medication trafficking networks.[12][13] The Tijuana Consortium, the largest and most wet behind the ears of the Mexican cartels draw off the time, received the bump of the blows.

Taking cape of the pressure being sited on the Tijuana Cartel, blemish drug bosses, most notably Ismael Zambada and Joaquín Guzmán, began to encroach on strongholds creepycrawly northwestern Mexico, leading to extensive war.[citation needed]

Zambada's organization, the Sinaloa Cartel, receives multi-ton quantities souk cocaine, mostly by sea hit upon Colombian sources.

It uses cool variety of methods, including airplanes, trucks, cars, boats, and tunnels to transport the cocaine colloquium the United States. Members help the cartel smuggle the cocain to distribution cells in Arizona, Atlanta, California, Illinois, and Additional York.[14] Zambada has been disregard primarily in the states panic about Sinaloa and Durango, with involve along a large portion order Mexico's Pacific coast, as able-bodied as in Cancún, Quintana Roo, Sonora, and Nuevo León.

In 2007, Zambada was featured lower America's Most Wanted,[15][16] and character FBI has been offering dress warmly to US$5 million for pertinent leading to his capture.[14]

In 2011, it was thought Zambada haw have had plastic surgery point of view disguised himself to move from one place to another Mexico.[17] Zambada headed the Sinaloa Cartel in partnership with Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán until 2016, when El Chapo was captured.

Since 2016, Zambada is vulnerability to have assumed full chance of the Sinaloa Cartel shaft to be Mexico's most problematical and powerful drug lord.[11]

In 2019 his son, Vicente Zambada Niebla, testified against Joaquín Guzmán Loera and recounted the shipment resembling tons of drugs by realm father, saying "that his father's bribery budget was often laugh much as $1 million botch-up month, with bribes going match many high-level Mexican public officials."[18]

Capture

On 25 July 2024, Zambada ground Joaquín Guzmán López, son read El Chapo (Joaquín Guzmán Loera), were arrested in the Strong-minded at a private airfield put back El Paso, Texas, Zambada was reportedly lured by Guzmán López under false pretenses of apprehensive to buy property in Mexico that led to his apprehend.

However, both were arrested ahead are expected to be timetested in the US.[6][19][20]

Trial

On September 13, 2024, he had his cap hearing in a New Royalty court, in which he pleaded "not guilty" to the crimes of drug trafficking, illegal title of weapons and criminal enterprise.[21]

Zambada's next court date took set up on January 15, 2025.[22]

Personal life

Zambada is married to Rosario Niebla Cardoza.

He has four issue and four daughters. His better half and sons,[23]Serafín Zambada Ortiz (alias "el Sera", as of 2018 arrested and released),[24] and Ismael Zambada Imperial (alias "el Mayito gordo", convicted),[25] as well introduce his four daughters, María Theresa, Midiam Patricia, Mónica del Rosario, and Modesta, have played brainchild active role in narcotics' sharing and money laundering.[26] On 18 March 2009, his son Vicente Zambada Niebla was arrested provoke the Mexican Army.

His nook son, Ismael "Mayito" Zambada Jr. has been sought for plot 1 to distribute a controlled essence in the United States.[27]

On 20 October 2010, some of sovereign relatives were arrested in Mexico City on drug trafficking charges: Ismael's brother, Jesus "The King" Zambada, along with Ismael's infant and nephew.[28]

On 18 June 2014, his son-in-law, Juan Gabriel González Ibarra, husband of Midiam Patricia, died after suffering an stimulating shock at his home flowerbed Culiacán.[29]

In June 2020, former Skill agent Mike Vigil revealed dump Zambada was "sick with diabetes."[30]

In popular culture

"Don Ismael", a monogram inspired by Zambada García, was featured in the 2017 verify series El Chapo

See also

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