US Arrest Mexican Drug Smuggler: Mexico’s notorious drug mafia has been cornered in the US. US police have arrested drug mafia El Chapo’s son and his partner Zambada in El Paso, Texas. El Chapo is called the godfather of the drug smuggling world. Zambada is accused of manufacturing and smuggling fentanyl and smuggling cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine. The US government had announced a reward of Rs 125 crore for his arrest. The US Justice Department said that 2 people have been arrested for smuggling the world’s most powerful drug. Several charges have been leveled against Zambada and El Chapo’s son Joaquin Guzman Lopez. According to a New York Times report, 76-year-old Zambada and El Chapo’s son Guzman had been smuggling drugs together for years. Police arrested Guzman and put him in jail. In February this year, US prosecutors accused Zambada of conspiring to manufacture and smuggle fentanyl. It is considered the most dangerous.
It has influence in 50 countries
US Attorney General Merrick Garland said that these two men were running the world’s most violent and powerful drug trafficking organization. Both are on the list of the main kingpins of the Sinaloa Cartel. Both were arrested while disembarking from the plane. According to a report presented in the US Parliament in July 2018, the annual income of the Sinaloa Cartel is $3 billion. It has influence in at least 50 countries.
What is the Sinaloa Cartel?
Sinaloa is a northwestern state of Mexico and the Sinaloa Cartel is named after it. On the orders of Guzman, this cartel eliminated many drug smugglers and became the largest network sending drugs to America. Now the arrest of Zambaza and Guzman Lopez can create instability in the Sinaloa Cartel. This recent development can increase tension even more.
