Two pages were enough for Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada to blow the official version of his capture in the United States out of the water and, in the process, shake up Sinaloa’s political chessboard.

Vicente Zambada Niebla, El Vicentillo, as well as companies linked to his father, Ismael Zambada García, el Mayo, were removed from the US Department of the Treasury's blacklist, after the heir ...