A new era is coming for Mexico's powerful Sinaloa cartel in the wake of the capture by U.S. authorities of Ismael 'El Mayo' Zambada, the last of the grand old Mexican drug traffickers.
MARÍA VERZA and ALANNA DURKIN RICHEROne of El Chapo's sons helped the US operation to capture Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada and Joaquin Guzman Lopez, leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel.A new era is coming for Mexico's powerful Sinaloa cartel in the wake of the capture by U.S. authorities ofExperts believe his arrest will usher in a new wave of violence in Mexico even as Zambada could potentially provide loads of information for U.S. prosecutors.
There is "significant potential for high escalation of violence across Mexico," said Vanda Felbab-Brown, a senior fellow in the Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy and Technology at the Brookings Institution. That "is bad for Mexico, it's bad for the United States, as well as the possibility that the even more vicious will rise to even greater importance."
The flight tracking site Flight Aware showed the plane stopped transmitting its elevation and speed for about half an hour over the mountains of northern Mexico before resuming its course to the U.S. Frank Pérez, a lawyer for Zambada, told The Associated Press that his client "did not come to the U.S. voluntarily."
Guzmán López has been accused of being the cartel's link for importing the precursor chemicals used to make fentanyl from Asia and for setting up the labs that produce the drug, Reveles said.
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