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The Underworld Podcast

El Mayo: The Undisputed King of Mexico & the Betrayal of El Chapo

The Underworld Podcast

The Underworld Podcast

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6871 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In the late 2000's, the Mexico government put together a list of dozens of Narco kingpins it wanted to bring down. Only one name from that list is not imprisoned or dead, and still sitting stop the Mexican cartel world: El Mayo. Nearing 80, he's never so much as been arrested despite co-founding and then co-leading the Sinaloa cartel for decades. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

2013 Sinoloa, Mexico, and Ellelea Zambata, arguably the most powerful drug lord in Mexico, and maybe even the world, is not happy.

0:10.0

El Chappo, his longtime friend, longtime business partner, and longtime co-leader of the Siniloa

0:16.0

cartel has been uncharacteristically making a lot of mistakes that threaten both of their interests. You see, at the start of their drug trafficking careers,

0:25.0

El Mayo and Chappa were on the same page.

0:28.0

They were business-oriented, here to make money, not magazine covers.

0:32.0

They followed their code. Keep an extremely low profile,

0:36.3

try not to be seen unless necessary. They didn't want to end up like so many of the other cartel

0:41.3

leaders as the center of attention.

0:44.0

Everyone knows where that leads, though sometimes the Allure of fame, it can prove to be too much

0:48.6

for even the most powerful gangsters.

0:51.6

While Almaio continues to live like that, hiding out in the mountainous region of Royal

0:55.4

Sinalloa, El Chappo has been out and about the last few years.

0:59.5

He's been spending more time in the capital city of Kulea Khan and at Resorts Beach towns in Mexico enjoying himself.

1:06.0

Slipping up, getting too confident.

1:08.4

Aragun, one could say.

1:10.3

El Mayo is disappointed in his partner and thinks that these activities have led to not only more heat from the authorities on El Chappo, but more heat on himself and the cartel in general.

1:20.0

2,000 miles north, El Mayo's son Descente, who was once rumored to be next in line for the throne,

1:26.0

is in another type of trouble.

1:28.0

After being held for years in severe conditions in the U.S.

1:31.2

He's starting to crack under DEA pressure.

1:34.0

But he reckons, there's just one last thing to do before he can turn witness against the

1:38.5

cartel.

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