El Chapo

On Friday, July 25, everything seemed to be running smoothly at the private airport in El Paso, Texas, as a private Lear jet landed in the midday heat.

Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, the “invisible” leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel and the man who believed he succeeded El Chapo, was as calm as he could be with a hood over his head until the plane came to a stop.

Undated images of Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada Garcia provided by the Mexican Attorney General's office in Mexico City on August 1, 2003. Two top leaders of Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel, including its co-founder Ismael Zambada Garcia, were arrested on July 25, 2024 in Texas, the US Department of Justice said.

At least three people died in clashes in the Mexican state of Sinaloa after the arrest of Ovidio Guzman, the son of notorious drug lord El Chapo, who is serving a life sentence in the United States.

Dutch police said on Jan. 23 they had arrested the alleged leader of a sprawling Asian drug syndicate who is listed as one of the world's most-wanted fugitives and has been compared to Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.

Mexico extradited its drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to New York on Jan. 19, likely ending a decades-long criminal career that included two jail breaks and a lead role in a national drug war, the day before Donald Trump assumes the U.S. presidency. 

Drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was eager to set up a face-to-face meeting with Mexican actress Kate del Castillo, and had apparently never heard of Sean Penn, according to transcripts of over a month of text messages exchanged between the two.

Hollywood star Sean Penn interviewed notorious drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman at a secret location soon after his escape from a maximum security prison in July.

Guzman had escaped from Altiplano prison in July and was recaptured on Friday after months of chasing him.

A meeting between US actor Sean Penn and Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman in the Mexican jungle helped lead to the drug kingpin's capture this week, a Mexican official said on Jan. 9.

Mexico recaptured the world's top drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman in a pre-dawn shootout and chase through drains on Jan. 8, returning him to the same prison he escaped from six months ago, in a boost for the beleaguered government. 

Bullet holes on roofs, charred cars and deserted villages were left in the wake of a military operation to catch fugitive drug baron Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman in northwest Mexico.