The reclusive drug kingpin Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada was famous for staying out of the public eye, ruling a multibillion-dollar narcotics trafficking empire from remote mountain hideouts and ...

Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, longtime leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel, pleaded not guilty to U.S. narcotics trafficking and murder charges on Friday. Zambada said in a letter that he was ...

Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, a powerful leader of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel, pleaded not guilty Friday in a U.S. drug trafficking case that accuses him of engaging in murder plots and ordering torture.

But it was El Chapo’s longtime partner, Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, whom Flores and his twin brother, Pedro, revered. “It was a big deal to me,” Flores, 43, said in a recent phone ...

At least 17 relatives of Mexican drug lord El Chapo are alleged to have crossed the border into the United States as part of ...

The cartel is splintering, and what's at stake is who will take over Zambada's faction now that he is in a U.S. jail. To paraphrase a famous Mexican corrido song, "Smuggling and Betrayal," the ...

US officials who’ve spoken with CNN say a key player in the operation to arrest Sinaloa cartel co-founder Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada was another major cartel figure who was arrested beside him.

The alleged pact between Los Chapitos and the CJNG and the apparent ties between groups from the north of the state with the ...

Guzman Lopez organized his arrest along with that of Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, 76, who co-founded the cartel with El Chapo, by luring Zambada on a flight to examine a piece of land he thought ...

MEXICO CITY — A longtime senior leader of the Sinaloa cartel, Ismael Zambada Garcia, or “El Mayo,” and a son of famed drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán were taken into custody ...

Alleged Sinaloa cartel co-founder Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, in a statement released by his attorney, reiterated the claim he was “ambushed” and “kidnapped” by a son of notorious drug ...