Mexico's powerful Sinaloa cartel marches on despite the arrest, extradition and now conviction in New York of its notorious leader, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, and the proof of this lies is in huge, multi-drug shipments detected on the border in recent weeks. So at the cartel's stronghold in the mountains of Sinaloa state, it's business as usual for Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, who has helped run the cartel since it was founded over three decades ago. So while the capture and trial of Guzman "was a great moral victory for the rule of law, it did very little to have a negative impact on the Sinaloa cartel", Vigil said. 'The business goes on'During Guzman's absence, the cartel has continued to develop a highly lucrative profit-centre in fentanyl. That is probably one of the two biggest threats to the Sinaloa cartel: It's literally killing its customers.

Source: News 24 February 13, 2019 11:15 UTC