Child soldiers recruited in Mexico’s most bloodthirsty cartel’s civil war

In July 2024, Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada – leader of the “Mayitos” faction of the Sinaloa cartel – was kidnapped and handed over to US authorities. Zambada, who was one of the world’s most-wanted men for 40 years, was captured and handed in by the “Chapitos” – Joaquín and Ovidio, sons of Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera, the infamous drug lord El Chapo.