US law enforcement officials arrested two of Mexico’s most wanted kingpins in El Paso, Texas, on July 25 without firing a shot. The two men, Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada and Joaquín Guzmán, helped lead arguably the world’s most powerful drug-trafficking organisation: the Sinaloa cartel. The arrest was one of the biggest in nearly two decades of war against Mexico’s drug cartels.
Guzmán, who is one of the sons of Mexican former drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera, led one of the cartel’s factions. But Zambada was the big catch. Now 76 years old, he is one of the last old-school cartel leaders, and has been hunted for decades.
