Mr. Zambada Garcia, known as El Mayo, had for decades evaded capture by both Mexican and American officials, living a life of luxurious simplicity in the mountains of Sinaloa... But in the end, U.S. officials said, he was betrayed by an unlikely foe: a son of his closest criminal ally, Joaquin Guzman Loera, the infamous drug lord known as El Chapo.
The older man had no idea that he was actually en route to Texas, where he would be delivered into the hands of American agents who had long been on his tail. The dramatic cross-border flight came after years of quiet contact between Mr. Guzman Lopez and a small team of U.S. law enforcement officers in the F.B.I. and Homeland Security Department.
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