CBP agents were seen next to a private plane believed to have carried Sinaloa Cartel and Mexican drug lords Ismael Zambada and Joaquin Guzman Lopez, the son of Zambada's former partner, Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman, in Texas.
READ NOW: El Chapo 's son flips for U.S. federal agents in betraying El MayoJoaquín Guzmán López apparently grew tired of living with a target on his back as a member of Los Chapitos – or Little Chapos – the clan of siblings who took control of one-half of the Sinaloa Cartel drug cartel empire after their father Joaquín ' El Chapo ' Guzmán was arrested and later extradited to the United States .
Zambada appeared in federal court in El Paso Friday morning and has entered a plea of not guilty to slew of drug trafficking charges, court records show. Joaquín Guzmán López, alongside his brother Ovidio Guzmán López, was indicted by a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of New York in 2018 for allegedly conspiring to distribute cocaine, marijuana and methamphetamine into the United States.
Donovan senses that the fear of being killed at any given moment led Joaquín Guzmán López to betray Zambada, following years on internal strife. Donovan was behind an operation to capture El Mayo in 2014 following El Chapo's Hollywood-like prison escape, but El Mayo managed to outsmart them. 'Listen, Joaquin, did he deal with drugs? Yes,' Donovan said. 'But was he really the main ? No, he was never the main guy. He was more like a follower than a leader. Ovidio was the big producer of Fentanyl. Iván ran the cartel. had the contacts in Colombia.
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