By Ricardo Lezama 
One of the mysteries around the recent arrest of El Mayo Zambada is to what extent El Chapo’s son was collaborating with US authorities. Under all conditions, the details of such collaboration would likely be privileged information and involve multiple layers of confidential sealed agreements that not even the judge would be able to read. In fact, most of the legal arrangements likely involved federal prosecutors coordinating with key law enforcement contacts.
Nevertheless, we hope to learn more about the nature of US collaboration with specific drug trafficking organizations during the next time El Chapo’s son is expected in court is in early January.
La Situación Actual de Joaquín Guzmán López y el Narcotráfico en México
Joaquín Guzmán López, known as “El Güero Moreno,” is the son of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, a former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel. At the moment, Guzmán López faces a series of federal charges in the US and appeared in federal court in Chicago. His next appearance will be on January 7th, 2025, which is eons in the drug trafficking world that could involve lots of bloody changes in Culiacan, Sinaloa.
According to the now former president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the arrest of Guzmán López and of Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, is the main source of violence in Sinaloa.