For seven months babies have been dying in the same neonatal ward in Guadalajara, in the Mexican state of Jalisco. An outbreak of two bacteria in that intensive care area has deprived at least 18 mothers of their newborns. Some of those women have never met; others recognize each other because the other’s child slept in the incubator next to theirs. Together they have formed a WhatsApp group where they call themselves “Bereaved Moms.” The first recorded case dates back to March. As of today, they say, there are still four infected babies at the Gynecology-Obstetrics Hospital of the Western National Medical Center of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS).

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In the early 1980s, the surname Zambada did not openly resonate in the drug-trafficking world. That allowed Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, patriarch of the criminal dynasty, to move through California without worrying too much about hiding his tracks. He was 32 then and beginning to weave a network of warehouses, transporters, distributors, customers, and money launderers. Over time, the Los Angeles metropolitan area would become the Sinaloa Cartel’s main hub in the United States for drug distribution and collection of illicit proceeds. El Mayo has been serving a life sentence imposed by a New York judge since July.

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