The End of the Ghost: El Mayo’s Guilty Plea and the Unraveling of a Drug Empire

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On a quiet Monday in a New York federal courtroom, a figure who had spent decades as the most elusive man in the world of organized crime finally appeared and spoke. Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada Garcia, the co-founder and long-reigning leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, pleaded guilty to charges that brought his storied criminal career to a definitive end.

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