The head of the feared Sinaloa drugs cartel has been arrested in the US – and now his chilling 14-year-old confession has emerged. Ismael Zambada Garcia, known more commonly as El Mayo, "calmly" surrendered to waiting FBI agents in Texas overnight. Former Sinaloa Cartel boss, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman , has enjoyed a life of luxury behind bars, with regular visits from prostitutes , movie nights, gourmet meals and parties.
Zambada can look forward to similar treatment. But it's possible that he may not have to spend very long behind bars at all, if he decides to co-operate with the authorities. While his friend was the cartel’s figurehead, Zambada was its logistical boss, using private planes, speedboats, and even submarines to smuggle drugs from Colombia to Mexico, and then into the United States.
He once vowed he'd never be taken alive. In a 2010 interview with the Mexican magazine Proceso, he explained what he would do if he was jailed with a four-word comment: "I would kill myself". He added that he was "terrified of being incarcerated".
Zambada, almost a decade older than El Chapo, has always lived a less flamboyant life than his former boss. Despite leading what US prosecutors have called “one of the most violent and powerful drug trafficking organisations in the world ” he has avoided being associated with the beheadings, dismemberments and flayings that his predecessor was known for. But clearly he has crossed someone within the dark and savage world of th.