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Who are 'El Chapo''s sons? the captured, the wanted, and their drug-trafficking empire

Nobody knows precisely how many children Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán Loera has, but, according to U.S. authorities, at least four of them are involved in the drug-trafficking business.

Latin Times

Powerful cartel leader 'El Mayo’ Zambada was lured onto airplane before arrest in US, AP source says

A U.S. law enforcement official says a powerful Mexican drug cartel leader who has eluded authorities for decades was duped into flying into the U.S., where he was arrested in Texas alongside a son of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán

The Independent UK

Sinaloa cartel leader and El Chapo's son arrested by US authorities in Texas

Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada and Joaquin Guzman Lopez were arrested on Thursday in El Paso

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Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada, notorious leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, arrested in US

Federal agents were waiting at the Santa Teresa airport in Texas for drug kingpin to land

The Independent UK

Two Top Figures In Mexico's Sinaloa Drug Cartel In US Custody

Two top leaders of Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel, including its co-founder Ismael Zambada Garcia, were arrested on Thursday in Texas, the US Department of Justice said.

International Business Times

El Chapo, El Mencho and Maripily Rivera receive votes in weekend elections in Mexico and Puerto Rico

The story broke when voters began posting photos on social media, showcasing their unconventional choices among local candidates

Latin Times

Jimmy Kimmel on Trump: ‘No president has ever been convicted more’

The late-night host shared his thoughts on the former president’s guilty verdict in a rewritten monologue

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El Chapo Guzmán Complains About Lack Of Communication In Prison

Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán, notorious drug lord, faces communication challenges with family in prison, highlighting personal struggles.

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Griselda is a Netflix sensation – here are 3 more crime thriller series to watch next

If you loved Sofia Vergara's true crime drama, Griselda, then Netflix has plenty more guilty pleasures for you to stream.

TechRadar

El Chapo pal accused of running logistics for Sinaloa kingpin asks for break in 22-year sentence

Alfredo Vasquez-Hernandez, 68, was one of the top Sinaloa members to be sentenced in Chicago.

Chicago Sun-Times

El Chapo’s appeal rejected and he will remain at ‘Alcatraz of Rockies’

The former drug lord is currently serving a life sentence in Colorado

The Independent UK

Inside the town that’s home to America’s most notorious criminals

The federal Supermax looms large in popular culture, housing the worst of the worst offenders in America – from El Chapo to terrorists and criminal masterminds. The people who live and work nearby in Colorado’s Florence and Fremont County tell Sheila Flynn what it’s like to live in the shadow…

The Independent UK

Consuelo Loera López, Mother of Cartel Leader 'El Chapo' Guzmán, Dies

Consuelo Loera López was 94 and had been interned in a clinic for the past two weeks

Latin Times

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Suspected Mexican cartel leader facing drug charges in Chicago sees Treasury Department freeze his assets

Authorities say Oscar Manuel Gastelum Iribe, as head of the Beltran Leyva Organization, conspired to import tons of heroin and cocaine.

The Independent UK

Drug kingpin linked to son of El Chapo gunned down in Los Angeles

Eduardo Escobedo, 39 – known as ‘El Mago’ – was killed during the incident on an industrial lot on Thursday morning

The Guardian - US

Biden hails arrest in Mexico of notorious Sinaloa cartel enforcer ‘El Nini’

Néstor Isidro Pérez Salas provided protection for sons of Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán and allegedly fed rivals to pet Bengal tigers

Chicago Sun-Times

Group tied to El Chapo’s sons reportedly orders halt to manufacture of fentanyl in Mexico, but experts are skeptical

“I don’t buy this for a minute,” says former DEA official Jack Riley. “Sinaloa is too heavily invested in fentanyl and its revenue to pull out.”

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In El Chapo fallout, older brother of twin Chicago drug traffickers sentenced for helping launder their money

Armando Flores, the brother of Margarito and Pedro Flores, admitted to hiding $2.3 million of the twins’ drug proceeds under his back porch in Texas. He got “time served” for the 19 months he spent in jail.

The Independent UK

Wife of cartel boss who snitched on El Chapo is jailed for hiding $2.3m of drug money

Prosecutors say money was used for luxury vacations, shopping sprees, private schools fees and to attend a J-Lo concert

Chicago Sun-Times

‘Cartel wife’ Valerie Gaytan, whose husband helped bring down El Chapo, warns of ‘fast life’

On her husband Margarito Flores Jr.’s “Surviving El Chapo” podcast, she says she was relieved she got three and a half years in prison for money-laundering, not the five years prosecutors wanted. Still, “it is scary.”

Chicago Sun-Times

Another ‘cartel wife’ gets 3.5 years for hiding millions in drug money tied to El Chapo’s Sinaloa cartel

The feds pointed out the $2.3 million Valerie Gaytan stashed was generated “through the sale of thousands of kilograms of drugs in the United States ... that harmed individuals and communities in countless ways.”

Salon

Zelenskyy and the theatre of politics

As public support for the Ukraine war recedes, Penn's documentary paean to Volodymyr Zelenskyy debuts just in time

Chicago Sun-Times

‘El Raton,’ son of cartel kingpin ‘El Chapo,’ appears in chains at his arraignment in Chicago

Ovidio Guzman Lopez, 33, is charged with taking over a ruthless Mexican cartel that trafficked cocaine, fentanyl into Chicago and the U.S.

Chicago Sun-Times

‘El Chapo’ son extradited to Chicago to face drug conspiracy charges

El Chapo also faced federal drug charges in Chicago, but was ultimately was prosecuted in federal court in Brooklyn. Now his son will likely be arraigned at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in Chicago’s Loop.

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