A recent seizure by Mexican authorities sheds light on how the Mayiza faction of the Sinaloa Cartel is using rail lines to move large quantities of narcotics from Mexico to Arkansas. The seizure also points to a commercial alliance between the Mayiza and the Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas, which is allowing the move of drugs through their territories for a fee.
Credit: Guardia Nacional Mexico
The seizure took place this week in the Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, when authorities found 72o bricks of methamphetamine that had been hidden inside various rail cars. According to authorities, the packages had been placed inside pallets of bricks. The total weight of the drug bricks was 1,170 pounds (531 kilograms).
In the information released by Mexico’s government, they claimed that the drugs belonged to a local criminal organization that controlled the region, pointing at the CDN-Los Zetas. However, intelligence information provided to Breitbart News Foundation revealed that the drugs were, in fact, owned by the Sinaloa Cartel and were simply passing through. The packaging of the drugs had been done at a warehouse controlled by the Sinaloa Cartel faction controlled by Ismael “Mayito Flaco” Zambada Sicairos, the son of the now convicted drug kingpin Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada. El Mayo pleaded guilty this week to various drug charges, sealing his fate with a mandatory life in prison sentence, Breitbart Texas reported.
Credit: Guardia Nacional Mexico
The information provided to Breitbart News Foundation supports prior intelligence reports that showed an alliance of convenience between the CDN-Los Zetas and factions of the Sinaloa Cartel, which has been undergoing a fierce turf war that has split the once-powerful cartel into two main factions. One of these factions is led by Mayito Flaco, and the second is led by the sons of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán.
Since last summer, the Chapitos and Mayiza have been in a fierce turf war after the Chapitos lured El Mayo into a meeting, only to capture him and fly him to Texas into the waiting hands of U.S. authorities. This perceived betrayal sent both factions into war and then reshaped the cartel map of Mexico as each of the two factions has since made various alliances of convenience with other cartels.
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Editor’s Note: Breitbart News Foundation traveled to Mexico City and the states of Tamaulipas, Coahuila, and Nuevo León to recruit citizen journalists willing to risk their lives and expose the cartels silencing their communities. The writers would face certain death at the hands of the various cartels that operate in those areas including the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas if a pseudonym were not used. Breitbart News Foundation’s Cartel Chronicles are published in both English and their original Spanish. This article was written by “J.M. Martinez” from Coahuila, and “Francisco Morales” from Tamaulipas.