Translated by Otis B Fly-Wheel for Borderland Beat from a Sinembargo article
Subject Matter: El Mayo Zambada
Recommendation: No prior subject matter knowledge required
The capo has maintained a low profile. Apart from the images taken with Julio Scherer, almost no images exist of him.
Reporter: Jose Luis Montenegro
Ismael Zambada Garcia, better known as "Don Mayo" or simply "El Mayo", is the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, one of the oldest criminal organizations consolidated in Mexico according to a recent report by the anti-drug agency the DEA.
His accumulated experience is proportional to the size of his buisiness. Currently El Mayo Zambada and the Sinaloa Cartel export and distribute wholesale quantities of "methamphetamines, marijuana, cocaine and heroin to the US", thanks to maintaining distribution centres in cities such as Phoenix, Los Angeles, Denver and Chicago," says the same DEA report.
After more than 50 years of criminal activity, Zambada Garcia is one of the oldest and most influential drug barons in the States of Sinaloa, Chihuahua and Durango, which comprise the so called Golden Triangle where the largest amounts of narcotics come from.
Early Start
According to unofficial versions from Mexican Security Organizations, El Mayo began his criminal career in 1964, when he was only 16 years old. For this he counted on the help of Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo and Rafael Caro Quintero, two of the old guard of Mexican Capos, and founders of the Guadalajara Cartel.
Subject Matter: El Mayo Zambada
Recommendation: No prior subject matter knowledge required
The capo has maintained a low profile. Apart from the images taken with Julio Scherer, almost no images exist of him.
Reporter: Jose Luis Montenegro
Ismael Zambada Garcia, better known as "Don Mayo" or simply "El Mayo", is the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, one of the oldest criminal organizations consolidated in Mexico according to a recent report by the anti-drug agency the DEA.
His accumulated experience is proportional to the size of his buisiness. Currently El Mayo Zambada and the Sinaloa Cartel export and distribute wholesale quantities of "methamphetamines, marijuana, cocaine and heroin to the US", thanks to maintaining distribution centres in cities such as Phoenix, Los Angeles, Denver and Chicago," says the same DEA report.
After more than 50 years of criminal activity, Zambada Garcia is one of the oldest and most influential drug barons in the States of Sinaloa, Chihuahua and Durango, which comprise the so called Golden Triangle where the largest amounts of narcotics come from.
Early Start
According to unofficial versions from Mexican Security Organizations, El Mayo began his criminal career in 1964, when he was only 16 years old. For this he counted on the help of Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo and Rafael Caro Quintero, two of the old guard of Mexican Capos, and founders of the Guadalajara Cartel.