Ovidio Could Be Key to Proving Zambada Surrendered to the US

The Ovidio-Zambada Connection Was Plotted Through Another Significant Yet Almost Forgotten Figure: Vicente Zambada Niebla, Who Entered the Witness Protection Program Approximately 3 Years Ago.

EL PASO, Texas.— Two days before the world learned that the legendary criminal capo Ismael 'El Mayo' Zambada was on American soil, just a few kilometers from El Paso, Texas, another important figure in drug trafficking visited this border: Ovidio Guzmán López, son of Sinaloa Cartel leader Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán, who was extradited to the United States last September.

The news exploded like a bomb at this border: 'El Mayo' Zambada—that white-hatted man known as the last living capo who has spent more than fifty years in the shadows, far from the clutches of the government and the jaws of his enemies—was in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, and he wasn't alone. On the same plane was the namesake son of 'El Chapo,' Joaquín Guzmán López.

Rumors began to circulate: they arrived by mistake, they were kidnapped, they were captured… and then another detail made everything even murkier: Ovidio Guzmán had been released just a few days earlier. Or so it seemed. The Federal Bureau of Prisons in the United States announced that Guzmán-López was released on July 23, 2024.

The reality is that this strange apparent release of Ovidio has everything to do with 'El Mayo's presence in the United States, but not in the way we think.