On July 20, 2026, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York sentenced Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada García, cofounder of the Sinaloa Cartel, to life imprisonment without the possibility of release and entered, pursuant to a plea agreement, a forfeiture money judgment of fifteen billion dollars. This Article reads the case … Continue reading El Mayo Zambada Sentence: A Cartel War on the Defensive