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A 76-year-old man, gray-haired and unwell, is the focus of the latest slanging match between Mexico and the United States. He is Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, the once-powerful Sinaloa Cartel leader and a representative of the drug trafficking old school, who arrived in the U.S. under very strange circumstances two years ago and has been held in custody ever since, with no hope of release. His image currently dominates the binational conversation: the memory of his delivery and the circumstances surrounding his small-plane trip from Culiacán to New Mexico — effectively a kidnapping. South of the border, the episode is an open, festering wound, an attack, the government argues, on national sovereignty; north of the border, it is the origin of Washington’s latest major trophy and the emblem of the narrative of corruption cast onto its neighbor.
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