US authorities arrest Sinaloa Cartel chiefs in Texas | DW News

Two of the leading figures of the deadly drug trafficking organization, the Sinaloa cartel, have been arrested in Texas. "Ismael Zambada Garcia, or 'El Mayo,' co-founder of the Cartel, and Joaquin Guzman Lopez, a son of its other co-founder, were arrested today in El Paso, Texas," US Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement. Zambada, who was believed to have been behind much of the day-to-day business of drug trafficking, had been one of the leaders of the cartel since the 1970s.