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Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada ordered torture and plotted murders as he Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán grew the Sinaloa cartel into the world's largest drug trafficking organization, prosecutors said.
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Mexican drug lord ‘El Mayo’ sentenced to life in prison in US federal court
Case against Ismael Zambada García, who helped co-found and lead the violent Sinaloa cartel, unfolded in New York The Mexican drug kingpin, Ismael Zambada García, known as “El Mayo”, was sentenced in a US federal court on Monday to life in prison, after a plea deal last year in which he admitted to shipping vast amounts of cocaine and other substances as leader of the violent Sinaloa cartel. Zambada is 76 and one o…
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Infamous cartel boss "El Mayo" Zambada sentenced to life in U.S. prison
Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada ordered torture and plotted murders as he Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán grew the Sinaloa cartel into the world's largest drug trafficking organization, prosecutors said.
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Notorious drug cartel leader Ismael Zambada sentenced to life in US prison
Known as "El Mayo", the co-founder the Sinaloa Cartel was also ordered to pay $15bn after he admitted to sending vast amounts of drugs to the US.
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Mexican drug kingpin El Mayo sentenced to life in prison
Ismael 'El Mayo' Zambada, a Mexican drug lord who trafficked substances into the US for the Sinaloa cartel, has been jailed for life.
