America’s Third War: The U.S. Cut a Deal With the Sinaloa Cartel, Say Court Documents


By William Lajeunesse

Published August 05, 2011 FoxNews.com

Image: Vicente Zambada Niebla
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Suspected Mexican drug trafficker Vicente Zambada Niebla
Ismael Zambada GarcíaIsmael “Mayo” Zambada-Garcia

joaquin-guzman-loera.jpgJoaquin “El Chapo” Guzman

U.S. federal agents allegedly cut a deal with the Sinaloa drug cartel that allowed it to traffic tons of narcotics across the border, in exchange for information about rival cartels, according to documents filed in federal court.

Click here to view the Sinaloa Cartel case document.

The allegations are made by Vicente Zambada-Niebla, a top ranking cartel boss extradited to the U.S. last year on drug charges. He is a close associate of Mexico’s most wanted man, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman and the son of Ismael “Mayo” Zambada-Garcia.

Both remain fugitives, in part, because of the deal Zambada- Niebla made with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, according to a defense motion filed last Friday in the case.

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