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When a U.S. SuperMax prison seems preferable to staying down Mexico way?

For some DEA agents, supervisors, etc., the FBI, Homeland Security, ICE, politicians in search of the limelight, anytime a high-ranking Mexican drug cartel kingpin is taken into U.S. custody, they count it as a reason to rejoice.Such was the case last Thursday after 76-year-old Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, co-founder of the powerful Sinaloa Cartel, was taken into U.S. custody after his plane landed at an El Paso-area airport with the youngest son of “El Chapo” Guzman aboard.Zambada, whose nickname is short for Ismael, is the same drug trafficker who, along with “El Chapo” Guzman, helped build the Sinaloa Cartel into ...

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