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Capture of El Mayo
On 25 July 2024, Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, the co-founder of the Sinaloa Cartel, was abducted at a property outside Culiacán in the Mexican state of Sinaloa and flown to the United States. He was arrested on landing at Santa Teresa, New Mexico, along with Joaquín Guzmán López, a son of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, who had organised the seizure. In a letter released that August, Zambada said he had gone to the property expecting to mediate a dispute between the governor of Sinaloa, Rubén Rocha Moya, and Héctor Melesio Cuén Ojeda, a former rector of the Autonomous University of Sinaloa who had been elected to the Chamber of Deputies weeks earlier, and that he was ambushed there and taken across the border against his will. Guzmán López admitted organizing the abduction in December 2025, which he said he had carried out in the hope of winning cooperation credit. The capture set off a war inside the Sinaloa Cartel between Guzmán's sons and the faction loyal to Zambada, in which more than 2,400...
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