Mexican drug kingpin and El Chapo partner Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada Garcia pleaded guilty in Brooklyn to running a massive drug enterprise, a charge that requires he serve the rest of his life in a federal prison.

The charges Zambada initially faced were death-eligible, but earlier this month, prosecutors announced that Attorney General Pam Bondi decided not to seek the death penalty. Bondi is expected to speak this afternoon.

The 75-year-old kingpin laid out his history co-founding the Sinaloa Cartel in a lengthy statement in Brooklyn Federal Court Monday, describing how he “planted marijuana for the first time” when he was 19 years old, and went on to lead armed groups that went to war with his rivals in Mexico.

“During my more than 50 years in this activity, I created a large cr

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