{"id":516296,"date":"2026-07-20T10:53:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T14:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/el-mayo-zambada-receives-life-imprisonment-after-decades-at-the-helm-of-the-sinaloa-cartel\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T10:55:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T14:55:31","slug":"el-mayo-zambada-receives-life-imprisonment-after-decades-at-the-helm-of-the-sinaloa-cartel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/international\/el-mayo-zambada-receives-life-imprisonment-after-decades-at-the-helm-of-the-sinaloa-cartel\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cEl Mayo\u201d Zambada receives life imprisonment after decades at the helm of the Sinaloa Cartel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>New York, United States.<\/strong>\u2013 Mexican drug trafficker Ismael <a href=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"674892\">\u201cEl Mayo\u201d Zambada, <\/a>one of the founders of the Sinaloa Cartel, will receive a life sentence this Monday from a federal court in Brooklyn, after pleading guilty to charges linked to drug trafficking and organized crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zambada, 76, was for decades one of the most wanted figures by U.S. authorities, who accuse him of having played a key role in the expansion of the Sinaloa Cartel, turning it into one of the most far-reaching international criminal networks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ruling puts an end to one of the most significant judicial proceedings against the historic Mexican drug trafficking leader, who was arrested in July 2024 after his arrival in the United States on a private aircraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">We recommend reading: <a href=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/internacionales\/el-narcotraficante-mexicano\/\">Mexican drug trafficker \u2018El Mayo\u2019 Zambada accepts life sentence in a United States court<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following his capture, Zambada claimed that he was transported against his will from Mexico, maintaining that he had been kidnapped before his arrival on U.S. territory. However, he subsequently faced the judicial process that will culminate in the imposition of the sentence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York, United States.\u2013 Mexican drug trafficker Ismael \u201cEl Mayo\u201d Zambada, one of the founders of the Sinaloa Cartel, will receive a life sentence this Monday from a federal court in Brooklyn, after pleading guilty to charges linked to drug trafficking and organized crime. Zambada, 76, was for decades one of the most wanted figures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133559,"featured_media":516297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-international"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-2ajm","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/images-88-1.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Preciosa Jimenez","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-26-at-5.31.56-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["International"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/images-88-1.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}