Zambada, 76, the cartel’s co-founder, was long believed to have police, soldiers and political leaders in his pocket. But the new statement includes unprecedented admissions of those ties.

Zambada, 76, was taken into custody after he arrived at a small airport near El Paso, along with Joaquín Guzmán López, a 38-year-old son of El Chapo, the Sinaloa cartel‘s co-founder alongside ...

Zambada said in a letter that he was kidnapped in Mexico and brought to the U.S. by Guzmán López, son of imprisoned Sinaloa co-founder Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán.

Violence has soared in Sinaloa since the capture in the U.S. of cartel co-founder Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada almost a year ago.

Vicente Zambada Niebla, the son of one of Mexico’s most powerful drug lords, was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Thursday morning, but could be a free man in as little as five years.. Zambada ...

Zambada, 76, was taken into custody after he arrived at a small airport near El Paso, along with Joaquín Guzmán López, a 38-year-old son of El Chapo, the Sinaloa cartel's co-founder alongside ...

Prosecutors allege Ovidio Guzman Lopez, along with his brother, Joaquin Guzman Lopez, ran a faction of the cartel known as ...

Zambada’s comments were released a day after the U.S. ambassador to Mexico confirmed that the drug lord had been taken to the United States against his will, when he arrived in Texas in July on ...

Zambada has already shown he is willing to do that. In a jailhouse letter, Zambada gave a version of the killing of Hector Cuén - a political rival of Gov. Rocha who was killed the same day ...

Zambada-Niebla is the son of the fugitive Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, who ran the white-collar side of the Sinaloa cartel. Before learning his sentence Thursday, Zambada-Niebla offered apologies ...

Zambada founded the Sinaloa Cartel along with now-jailed drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, and he faces a litany of indictments for crimes relating to drug trafficking and organized crime in ...