[kellyhound]

This happened due to an ongoing internal conflict within the Sinaloa Cartel being one of the world's most powerful drug trafficking organizations. For decades, the cartel was ruled via a stable partnership between two main founders: Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán and Ismael El Mayo Zambada.

The cartel has fractured into two warring factions being the Los Chapitos (the sons of El Chapo) and La Mayiza (the family and loyalists of El Mayo).

In July 2024, Joaquín Guzmán López (of Los Chapitos) lured the elderly faction leader Ismael El Mayo Zambada to a meeting in Sinaloa.

Instead of a meeting, Ismael El Mayo was allegedly ambushed. The moment El Mayo entered a dark room at the ranch, he was immediately blindsided. A group of armed men loyal to Guzmán López ambushed him. The 76-year-old drug lord, who was suffering from severe health problems was overpowered.

Bound and hooded, El Mayo was thrown into the back of a pickup truck and driven to a nearby rural airstrip. He was physically carried onto a small twin-engine Beechcraft King Air turboprop plane. Once inside, Guzmán López forced him into a seat and secured him.

While the plane was in the air, Guzmán López sent a last-minute message to waiting U.S. federal agents to confirm he was landing at an airfield near El Paso, Texas, with the ultimate prize. When the wheels touched the tarmac, American agents moved in and arrested both men.

Guzmán López did not want to spend the rest of his life running from the U.S. government or being hunted down by rival cartels. For months, he had been engaged in secret negotiations with U.S. federal prosecutors to turn himself in.

In exchange for surrendering voluntarily, he wanted a plea deal that would protect him from a mandatory life sentence.

In the eyes of the U.S. justice system, Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada was the holy grail of drug kingpins, a man who had evaded capture for over 50 years.

Guzmán López knew that if he arrived in America empty-handed, he would have very little leverage. By delivering El Mayo on a silver platter, he thought he was securing the ultimate credit to guarantee a incredibly lenient sentence for himself and a better deal for his already-captured brother, Ovidio Guzmán.

While Guzmán López successfully avoided a life sentence by pleading guilty to drug trafficking charges in federal court, his grand plan partially backfired.

During his court proceedings, U.S. prosecutors made it explicitly clear that the U.S does not condone kidnapping. They stated on the record that while he got credit for surrendering his drug trafficking operation, he and his brother would receive absolutely zero cooperation credit for the actual abduction of El Mayo.

Ismael El Mayo Zambada was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Instead of forcing a massive, dangerous federal trial, El Mayo chose to enter a guilty plea. He pleaded guilty to charges including racketeering conspiracy and running a continuing criminal enterprise.

As part of his plea deal, the court entered a staggering $15 billion forfeiture money judgment against him to strip him of his drug trafficking profits.

The brothers Joaquín Guzmán López and Ovidio Guzmán López took a vastly different legal path by securing cooperative plea deals in a Chicago federal court.

Joaquín successfully avoided a mandatory life sentence. He changed his plea to guilty for counts of drug trafficking and continuing a criminal enterprise. He admitted to running vast underground drug tunnels into the U.S. Under his deal, he still faces a minimum of 10 years to several decades in prison.

Ovidio Guzmán López was captured in Mexico in 2023 and extradited first. Ovidio also entered into a coordinated plea deal alongside his brother. His sentence is heavily tied to his brother’s cooperation and both are looking at significant, multi-decade federal prison terms, but with the possibility of eventual release under supervised parole down the line, a luxury their father (El Chapo) and El Mayo will never have.

Under the terms of their 35-page plea agreements, both brothers are required to provide complete, truthful information to the U.S. government. The U.S. Attorney's office will not allow the judge to schedule a final sentencing hearing until federal prosecutors are fully satisfied that the brothers have delivered all the intelligence, cartel financial data, and smuggling route details they promised.

The remaining free brother, Iván Archivaldo, continues to lead the armed remnants of the faction on the ground in Mexico, completely cut off from his brothers' legal agreements.

The family and loyalists of El Mayo are the Los Cabrera (formally the Cabrera Sarabia family) and are a crucial, highly powerful armed wing and financial faction totally loyal to La Mayiza (the family and loyalists of El Mayo).

The Cabrera Sarabia brothers (Felipe, Alejandro, José Luis, and Alberto) started out decades ago as local marijuana and poppy cultivators. Recognizing their reliability and strategic location, El Mayo Zambada brought them into his inner circle, essentially granting them total control over the state of Durango and parts of the strategic Golden Triangle region.

Over nearly thirty years, they evolved from a regional group into a heavily armed, sophisticated paramilitary organization. Even as some of the older brothers were killed or extradited to the United States over the years (like Felipe Cabrera), the family's younger generation and surviving leaders have seamlessly kept the organization running.

Los Cabrera also acts as primary financial backers for La Mayiza’s war effort, funding weapons, vehicles and payroll for thousands of foot soldiers.

In this video some of their foot soldiers were massacred by hitmen from the Los Chapitos aka La Chapiza (sons of El Chapo). Some left with bulging eyeballs.

Severe physical trauma, blunt force injury or ballistic wounds, such as round entry causing wound cavitation and fluid displacement, can force eyes partially out of the sockets.

[Mr.NoCredit]

I use Let Us and Mayo on my ham samiches

[Hugo420]

They are good they are just passed out from drinking the night before

[foxfantastic]

That dude at the bottom looks like he saw something he's never gonna unsee.

Overall, it was an eye-opening experience for all of them. It literally blew their little minds.

[Rikbikboo]

$15B in the bank and they couldn't disappear. Only bent politicians are able to do that.

[docfr8]

Field strip the bodies and take their gear