Member Of 'El Mayo' Zambada's Family Reportedly Claims Drug Lord Won't 'Sing' Or Incriminate Others

A member of Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada's family reportedly said the drug lord won't "sing" or incriminate specific people following his guilty plea in the U.S. earlier this week.

Speaking To CrashOut, the family member said Zambada will give out some funds and let the family keep the rest. "The information that Mayo Zambada has remains with Mayo Zambada," the person added.

Zambada's plea is dominating the conversation both in Mexico and the U.S., with top officials in both countries reacting to the development and its impact in the fight against cartels and others potentially involved with criminal organizations.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum celebrated the plea, saying detractors claimed her administration was "chasing shadows." "When we started, we were told we were chasing shadows," Sheinbaum added. She went on to say that the guilty plea marks the "collapse of the empire," referring to the fact that Zambada co-founded the Sinaloa Cartel. Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the other co-founder of the cartel, has been in prison for years at a Colorado maximum security facility.

Attorney General Pam Bondi, on her end, said the drug lord "will spend the rest of his life behind bars and die in a U.S. prison, where he belongs." "His plea takes us a step closer towards our goal of eliminating drug cartels and international criminal organizations," she added.

The co-founder of the Sinaloa Cartel did say during his guilty plea on Monday that he bribed "military commanders and politicians who allowed us to operate freely." "It goes back to the very beginning when I was a young man starting out and it continued for all those years," he said.

Zambada changed his initial plea, considering he said he wasn't guilty in September last year. The change comes just weeks after U.S. authorities decided they will not seek the death penalty in Zambada's case, a move that appears to have catalyzed the agreement.

In addition to Zambada himself, other aging cartel figures, like Rafael Caro Quintero, were similarly spared, suggesting a broader prosecutorial strategy of encouraging plea deals. His sentencing will take place on January 13 next year.