Inside The Cartel Coup That Saw El Chapo’s Son Lure Rival Drug Kingpin ‘El Mayo’ To The US To Be Arrested: ‘Once-In-A-Lifetime Caper’

Dana Kennedy at the New York Post offers a piece on the capture of Mexican drug lord El Mayo.

Somewhere in solitary at the Florence Supermax prison in Colorado where he’s jailed for life, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán must be smiling.

That’s because US officials say Guzman’s son, Joaquín Guzmán López, apparently tricked the world’s savviest and most powerful drug kingpin Sinaloa cartel founder Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, into boarding a small plane in Hermosillo, Mexico that ultimately landed in the US — where both were arrested.

It was a dramatic end to Zambada’s career as a cartel kingpin. Ismael Zambada Garcia, better known as "El Mayo," arguably the world's most powerful and savvy drug kingpin, was apparently duped by Joaguin Guzman Lopez, the son of his one-time partner in crime. 

He was once El Chapo’s greatest ally and co-founded the cartel with him — but then turned on him. When El Chapo was arrested, Zambada’s son and brother both turned state’s witness and testified against Guzmán. 

Zambada’s arrest was also a coup for Guzmán López and his brother, both of whom may be hoping to get their sentences shortened in exchange for cooperating with the US in the case against Zambada, one source told The Post.

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Cartel coup saw El Chapo's son lure rival drug kingpin 'El Mayo' to the US (nypost.com) 

Irish Mobsters Threaten To Kill Crime Reporters

Dana Kennedy at the Daily Beast offers a piece on Irish gangsters threatening crime reporters.

Covering drug-related crime in Dublin in 1996 was so dangerous that gangsters murdered one of the country’s toughest journalists, 37-year-old Veronica Guerin, just to shut her up.

Almost 20 years later, some of the same crime fraternity that Guerin fought so relentlessly to expose have gotten more powerful and violent—with a reach that extends to their new base on Spain’s Costa del Sol and as far away as China.

A complicated new feud between two men long identified by Irish media as smooth, old-school Irish gangsters, Christy “The Dapper Don” Kinahan and Gerry “The Monk” Hutch—ignited by younger, dumber gang members and possibly a Northern Ireland Republican dissident—is like something right out of Ireland’s cult gangland TV series Love/Hate, and blood is spilling all over Dublin.

Police have warned some Dublin crime reporters that they are in such danger from drug lords angry at being written about that they should leave their homes.

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/16/amid-the-irish-mafia-bloodbath-attempts-to-silence-the-press.html