
Trump’s cartel crackdown gains ‘powerful political leverage’ with El Mayo guilty plea
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Sinaloa Cartel leader admits to decades of drug smuggling with Mexican officials, facing life in prison as Trump targets cartels as terrorist organizations.
Diana Stancy is a politics reporter with Fox News Digital covering the White House.
The Trump administration has pledged to take down the cartels — and experts predict Zambada’s guilty plea paves the way for the Justice Department to launch more indictments against high-profile cartel members moving forward and exerts additional pressure on Mexico to comply with U.S. requests.
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