I'm John Batchter with Professor Aben Ellis of the US Army War College Strategic Studies Institute.

This is the New World Report to Mexico to a strange story that is suggestive of a Hollywood movie. The questionable cartel is called the

Siniloa cartel and a man who founded it is in jail forever.

Guzman is his name in the US.

The co-founder is a man who's got a name called El Mayo is smile elmio zambada now here's the part of the story the professor needs to help me on

Almio is now in custody in the U.S. having landed at El Paso Airport.

Mexican drug lord Ismail El Mayo Zambara was tricked by the son of Joaquin El Chappo Guzman and forced to board a plane

bound for the United States last month.

The statement distributed by Zambara's lawyer provides the drug lord's version of how U.S. authorities were able to capture it, both Zambata, co-founder of the Cinello cartel, and Joaquin Guzman Lopez, who is believed to have headed another faction of the

criminal group.

Professor, this is mighty strange to me from the outside.

I think Zambada, an alleged criminal of global proportion, is complaining that he was tricked.

Is that how to read this?

Is there some kind of relationship between the drug lords and a law

enforcement that resembles something like medieval chivalry? Help me. Well, we may never know quite what happened, but a little bit of

history on this, as you alluded to, there was an evolution of the relationship between

the Colombian Narco's and the Mexican what

started out intermediaries especially feeding the US market from really

the 1970s and 1980s until now. So one of the classic old school cartels of the

Cinnoloo cartel which was came to be a very large franchise organization with reaching into Europe, reaching

into Asia, even working with the Chinese to source chemical precursors for synthetic drugs,

reaching through South America to manage flows that were going through South America towards Europe. This franchise cartel, Siniloa, of course, it's key

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