Ismael El Mayo Zambada Net Worth And Associate Drug Lords
Ismael El Mayo Zambada, Rafael Caro Quintero and Miguel Felix Gallardo have an estimated net worth of about $3 billion, $650 million and $55 billion, respectively. The three worked together at some point to enhance their endeavour to smuggle more drugs into the United States. On how it all began, El Mayo, along with Joaquín Guzmán Loera and Juan José Esparragoza Moreno “El Azul” founded the Sinaloa Cartel.
It is presumed that after the capture of El Chapo, and the supposed death of Esparrogoza Moreno, “El Mayo” has remained as the only leader of the criminal organization, although delegating most of the operations to several lieutenants. He has served as logistics coordinator for the Sinaloa Cartel and has helped in the export of cocaine and heroin from Mexico to numerous cities in the United States through tunnels, trains, ships, airplanes, submarines, light aircraft and helicopters.
How El Mayo Began His Drug Trafficking Career
El Mayo began his career in drug trafficking in the 1970s, in the Guadalajara Cartel, an organization led by Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo and Rafael Caro Quintero, and then worked in the Juarez Cartel of Amado Carrillo , ‘The Lord of the Skies’. He ascended to assume leadership after the death of Carrillo. In contrast to other drug traffickers, Zambada has always tried to maintain a low profile, which has allowed him to remain practically untouchable to the Mexican authorities and Americans for more than three decades.
His greatest criminal activity occurred at the end of that same decade, when the federal government apprehended the then top drug lords in Mexico, all from Sinaloa — Rafael Caro Quintero, Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo and Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, uncle of the Arellano Félix brothers with whom he had formed a pact, which was broken for not fulfilling and protecting Joaquín “el Chapo” Guzmán .
The restructuring of Mexican criminal organizations led to the arrests of cartel leaders such as Benjamin Arellano Felix, from the Tijuana Cartel and the Gulf Cartel’s Osiel Cárdenas Guillén. This resulted in the invasion of “controlled” squares and territories, as well as a war between the different groups, both existing and emerging, and between these and the armed forces and Mexican federal police. This was in a bid to control routes for the transfer and distribution of drugs.
From 2001, “El Mayo” Zambada began working in collaboration with Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán , reinforcing the Sinaloa Cartel, especially through his son, Vicente Zambada Niebla, who played a key role in the Sinaloa Cartel by coordinating the shipment of several tons of cocaine from different countries in Central and South America, via Mexico, to the United States.
