Borderland Beat by Alex Marentes

Author:Alex Marentes [Marentes, Alex]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lulu Publishing
Published: 2019-08-16T04:00:00+00:00

A Portrait of Power

Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada has historically worked closely with the Juárez Cartel and the Carrillo Fuentes family, while maintaining independent ties to Colombian cocaine suppliers. El Mayo is the last powerful boss of the old guard. All the others have either died or are in prison. Zambada headed the Sinaloa Cartel in partnership with Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, until 2016 when El Chapo was captured. Zambada has now possibly assumed full command of the Sinaloa Cartel.

On October 20, 2008, some of his relatives were arrested in Mexico City on drug trafficking charges. Ismael's brother, Jesus "El Rey" Zambada, along with Ismael's son and nephew. His son, Ismael "Mayito" Zambada Jr. has been sought for conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance in the United States. His other son, Vicente Zambada Niebla, was arrested by the Mexican Army on March 18, 2009.

There are not many pictures that have been made public of Mayo Zambada. It is known that he was plump and chubby, but one day Vicente and Amado Carrillo, who underwent plastic surgery at the Santa Monica clinic in Mexico City, the same hospital where Amado Carrillo died in 1997, suggested that he change his appearance.

Zambada did.

Zambada lost weight and thinned out his cheeks, so that his face became stiff and a little elongated by the facelift. When José Luis Santiago Vasconcelos was the man in charge of SIEDO, federal authorities took possession of a photograph during a search warrant in one of his multiple properties. The photograph was of Zambada García who looked a lot younger and slender. The photo was kept in the files related to the Juarez cartel, the organization to which El Mayo belonged.

The man has been untouchable for decades. Ismael Zambada has shown his power and ability to infiltrate institutions, increasingly more during the six years of Ernesto Zedillo, Vicente Fox and Felipe Calderón: more than 35 agents of the Federal Public Ministry assigned to the SIEDO were his employees, and each one received between 350 and 400 thousand dollars a month for filtering information about consigned files and previous investigations in progress against members of his organization.

In the government of Vicente Fox, the Sinaloa cartel reached the Secretariat of National Defense (Sedena), where through Arturo González Hernández, El Chaky, several high-ranking Army commanders operating the telecommunication systems were found to be corrupt. They warned the cartel in advance what days and hours the military would be conducting operations.

In addition, El Mayo Zambada was in control of the Sinaloa police, and senior military officers looked after his physical integrity and his businesses. His impunity and his power were of such magnitude that, in December of 2005, in the ranch El Mezquite, they organized a party (narco posada) that included the popular musical group Illusion. Zambada García arrived at the party. A lot of alcohol flowed, heavy doses of cocaine were distributed and gunshots were fired into the air in celebration.

This attracted the attention of a sector of the Mexican Army stationed in Sinaloa and they requested a search warrant to enter the ranch.

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