Kingpins Caught

The FBI nabbed two of Mexico’s most powerful drug lords on Thursday.

In a dramatic betrayal, Joaquin Guzmán López—the 38-year-old son of infamous cartel boss “El Chapo”—handed over himself and the co-founder of his father’s Sinaloa cartel—Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada García (76)—to U.S. federal agents. Possibly hoping for sentencing leverage, Guzmán López told El Mayo they were flying to look at real estate, but their plane continued north to agents waiting in El Paso, TX. 

Guzmán López will appear in court in Chicago next week; El Mayo pleaded “not guilty” in El Paso Friday.

While the high-profile apprehensions are a victory for U.S. law enforcement, experts don’t expect significant disruptions to the decentralized organization that brings in billions of dollars annually trafficking cocaine and fentanyl into the U.S. and elsewhere. 

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ETERNAL PERSPECTIVE
As we work to promote accountability and redemption here on earth, we can rest in the knowledge that a day is coming when drug addiction will be impossible, violence will be no more, and injustice will be a distant memory.

“Our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly wait for a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ. He will transform the body of our humble condition into the likeness of his glorious body, by the power that enables him to subject everything to himself. So then, my dearly loved and longed for brothers and sisters, my joy and crown, in this manner stand firm in the Lord, dear friends.” 
Philippians 3:20-4:1 (CSB) (read full passage)