He FBI has arrested ‘El Mayo’ Zambada and Joaquin Guzman, son of ‘El Chapo’ Guzmantwo of the most wanted men in the United States for being the leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel. They were offering 15 and five million dollars to all people who gave valuable information about their whereabouts. However, they were arrested when their private plane landed in Texas, Everything indicates that they have been betrayed.

Ismael ‘Mayo’ Zambadaleader and co-founder of the Sinaloa Cartel, started from the bottom. In the 70s, he started in the Guadalajara Cartel (Mexico) and also worked for the Juarez Cartel under the orders of Amado Carillo, known as ‘Lord of the Skies’. Always in the shadows, his operations were mostly invisible, but the results were a success.

In 2000, he began his alliance with ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán. Together they turned the Sinaloa Cartel into the most terrifying organization in Latin America. With shootouts and score-settling, they managed to terrify an entire country. His influence was such that one of his sons, Vicente Zambada, became one of the pillars of the organization. Until he was arrested in 2009.

Joaquin Guzman Lopez He is the other major drug lord arrested. He is the heir of ‘El Chapo’, his son. He is involved in all of his father’s businesses: corruption, drug trafficking and extortion. In 2015 he even participated in an attempted escape of ‘El Chapo’ from prison. In addition, in recent years, he has been distributing fentanyl throughout the United States. But Guzmán López, unlike his brother and his father, has never set foot in prison.

A historic arrest because never before had two big bosses been arrested at the same time. The arrest of ‘Mayo’ leaves the dome of Sinaloa dismembered Since, after the capture of ‘El Chapo’ in 2016, he was their great leader. He was accused of extortion, corruption and drug trafficking. Now he was dedicated to distributing the deadly fentanyl throughout the continent.

Once arrested they have been unleashed all kinds of theoriesalthough one direction seems clear: betrayal. Some suggest that it could have been an internal tip-off from the organization, while another theory suggests that Chapo’s son was the one who betrayed him, in exchange for the freedom of his brother, who was released two days ago.

If anyone benefits from all this, it is undoubtedly the current US government. For having captured two of its most wanted criminals and for what this means in the fight against fentanyl. But they are not the only ones who will benefit from this. It is expected that Donald Trump, the Republican candidate, will also take advantage of this point to insist in his speech that the country does not take sufficient control measures on the Mexican border to stop crime.