Mexican Sinaloa cartel drug lord Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada, sentenced to life in prison, denounces violence
<p>Mexican drug kingpin Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada was sentenced in a U.S. court on Monday to life in prison and took the occasion to call for an end to the brand of brutal violence that he used to build the Sinaloa cartel into what prosecutors said was the world’s largest drug-trafficking organization.</p><p>“No one wins in a war like this,” Zambada, 76, said in federal court in Brooklyn through a Spanish-language translator.</p><p>With cartel co-founder <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/el-chapo" target="_blank" ><u>Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera</u></a> — who was convicted in 2019 and is serving a life sentence at the federal Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado — Zambada flooded Chicago, a key hub in the Sinaloa cartel's network, and cities across the United States with tons of cocaine, fentanyl, methamphetamine and other drugs.
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<p>Mexican drug kingpin Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada was sentenced in a U.S. court on Monday to life in prison and took the occasion to call for an end to the brand of brutal violence that he used to build the Sinaloa cartel into what prosecutors said was the world’s largest drug-trafficking organization.</p><p>“No one wins in a war like this,” Zambada, 76, said in federal court in Brooklyn through a Spanish-language translator.</p><p>With cartel co-founder <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/el-chapo" target="_blank" ><u>Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera</u></a> — who was convicted in 2019 and is serving a life sentence at the federal Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado — Zambada flooded Chicago, a key hub in the Sinaloa cartel's network, and cities across the United States with tons of cocaine, fentanyl, methamphetamine and other drugs. Nearly two decades of Chicago-based drug investigations were instrumental in the downfall of both Sinaloa cartel kingpins.</p><p>Zambada “spent nearly four decades poisoning American communities to make billions of dollars in profit and ordering the murders of anyone who stood in his way,” Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Joseph Nocella Jr.
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- <p>Mexican drug kingpin Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada was sentenced in a U.S. court on Monday to life in prison and took the occasion to call for an end to the brand of brutal violence that he used to build the Sinaloa cartel into what prosecutors said was the world’s largest drug-trafficking organization.</p><p>“No one wins in a war like this,” Zambada, 76, said in federal court in Brooklyn through a Spanish-language translator.</p><p>With cartel co-founder <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/el-chapo" target="_blank" ><u>Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera</u></a> — who was convicted in 2019 and is serving a life sentence at the federal Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado — Zambada flooded Chicago, a key hub in the Sinaloa cartel's network, and cities across the United States with tons of cocaine, fentanyl, methamphetamine and other drugs.
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Mexican Sinaloa cartel drug lord Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada, sentenced to life in prison, denounces violence
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