The guilty plea ‘El Mayo stimulates the repression efforts of the Trump cartel

Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, the co-founder of the Sinaloa cartel, should face the rest of his life behind bars while the Trump administration accelerates his efforts to dismantle the cartels.

Zambada, 75, admitted on Monday in a bunter audience room in New York, which he coordinated with Mexican officials to get drugs to the United States for decades – and finally pleaded guilty to have been the main leader of a continuous criminal business and a racket conspiracy.

The Trump administration has undertaken to eliminate cartels – and experts predict that Zambada’s guilt will open the way to the Ministry of Justice to launch more accusation acts against high -level cartel members by advancing and exerted additional pressure on Mexico to comply with American requests.

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This image provided by the American State Department shows Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, a historic leader of the Sinaloa cartel in Mexico. (US State Department via AP)

“He gives Powerful Trump a political effect,” a special retirement supervisory agent of the United States Drug Drug Supervision said on Monday. “I expect him to use this moment to rally public support for more aggressive cross -operations and more strict measures against Mexico.”

“Zambada admitted to court that for decades, he paid Mexican generals, governors and politicians,” said Townsend. “These are words directly from the mouth of one of the largest drug traffickers in the world. This confirms what we have seen for decades: Mexican institutions have been deeply compromised.”

A drug cartel is a criminal group where the drug lords coordinate to produce and distribute illegal drugs.

Zambada’s advocacy agreement forces the cartel’s boss to lose $ 15 billion. Meanwhile, Zambada’s lawyer Frank Perez said in a statement on Monday that the cartel boss will not comply with representatives of the United States government, reporting that he did not want to disclose any information on the cartel system in the United States

“The agreement he has concluded with the American authorities is a question of public file,” Perez said in a statement, according to ABC News. “This is not a cooperation agreement, and I can categorically declare that there is no agreement under which it cooperates with the American government or any other government.”

Perez could not be joined to comment by Fox News Digital.

The Trump administration decided to repress cartels, and designated groups as Sinaloa, Tren de Aragua and others as foreign terrorist organizations in February. This prevents groups from using the American financial system, aimed at hindering their ability to carry out operations.

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The photo of the undated police document shows Ismael Zambada. (Gracieuse of the General Procure of the Republica / Handout via Reuters / Photo file)

In addition, the Trump administration sailed with an agreement with Mexico to send 26 high -ranking cartel figures to the United States in August – including some with links with Sinaloa.

Townsend predicted that more accusations of the Ministry of Justice would follow.

“I think we are going to put pressure on a wider cooperation in Mexico, more accusations,” said Townsend. “We have shown that we have to extradite these people in the United States for prosecution. We have resources, criminal surveys. I therefore expect to see larger Doj’s indictment, in a renewed look at the Global Leadership of Sinaloa and other cartels, moreover, and how we can bring more acts and more charges against these key players.”

Meanwhile, other actions that the Trump administration could take could involve the US military. Trump signed on an order to direct military operations targeting cartels on foreign land, The New York Times reported in August.

Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum said that if Mexico “would collaborate” with the United States, an “invasion” was out of the question.

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Highways hundreds of kilometers from the border are used to circulate drugs across the United States (Fox News)

Nathan Jones, a non -resident scholarship holder in drug policy and studies in Mexico at the Baker Institute for Public Policy at the University of Rice, said that the guilty plea of ​​Zambada exerts additional pressure on Mexico to comply with American demands, although American troops in Mexico are perceived as a violence of Mexican sovereignty.

“For Mexico, you have a very sensitive problem, and American boots in the field without authorization are very problematic,” Jones told Fox News Digital on Tuesday. “But there are means that the Mexican government can without violating its own sovereignty. Working with the United States, American forces can be there.”

Zambada was arrested in July 2024 following a joint internal security investigation and an FBI investigation.

The conviction of Zambada is scheduled for January. It risks a compulsory minimum life in life prison for managing a continuous criminal enterprise and a maximum sentence of life prison for the accusation of racketeering, according to the Ministry of Justice.

“This foreign terrorist has committed horrible crimes against the American people – he will now pay for these crimes by spending the rest of his life behind bars in an American prison,” Prosecutor General Pam Bondi said on Monday. “Today marks a crucial victory in President Trump’s continuing struggle to completely eliminate foreign terrorist organizations and protect American citizens against fatal drugs and violence.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report.