"Joaquin El Chapo Guzman, 68, Ismael El Mayo Zambada, 77, and Rafael Caro Quintero, 72, have traded their hometowns in Sinaloa, the mountains that saw them grow up in Sonora, Chihuahua, and Durango, for prisons with meaningless names in the United States MDC Brooklyn, ADX Florence spaces that hold what's left of them, now that their mystical aura has been stripped away and criminal power broken."
"Each one ended up in prison in his own way. El Chapo was the first, sent to the U.S. under the Extradition Treaty a relief for the Mexican prison system, which had barely managed to hold him in facilities from which he escaped twice. Then it was El Mayo's turn: he was kidnapped in Culiacan a year ago by his former allies, and flown across the border in a small plane as if he were livestock."
Drug-trafficking routes in North America have shifted from Mexico's Golden Triangle to corridors linking New York and Colorado. Three formerly dominant Mexican kingpins — Joaquín Guzmán, Ismael Zambada and Rafael Caro Quintero — have been removed from their regional power bases and placed in U.S. prisons, stripping them of influence and the mystique that once surrounded them. Each capture and transfer occurred differently: extradition, abduction by former associates, and legal maneuvering under national-security authority. Efforts to rank cartel hierarchies oversimplify a fluid criminal landscape, and drug flows into the United States continue despite these high-profile removals.
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