Sean Williams

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3,291 appearances 10 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 15 Sep

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The Underworld Podcast · El Mayo Behind Bars: Cartel War, Conspiracy and Narcopolitics · 4 Aug 2026 podcast

For them, it's logical.

They just employ death and destruction.

They don't know any other way to hold on to power.

Yeah.

I mean, would you watch like the real Housewives of Culiacan or, I don't know, Narco Needs a Wife?

For decades, Mayo had been able to evade capture because he was known as a peacemaker, a dealmaker, a guy who preferred to corrupt officials for cover rather than killing fleets of narcos, politicians and civilians.

Of course, there is a decent amount of myth to that too.

Mayo has always had an armed wing ready to carry out bloodshed on his behalf.

Famously, he commanded the feared Sicario group Los Antrax, the Anfrax, and Los Russos, the Russians.

Although, you know, knowing my Spanish this episode, that could be anything.

I don't know.

These are not nice guys.

hiring people to turn victims into mush and things like this, and just picking people off buses and beheading them.

But yeah, that's not what he did.

Apparently, he's also a bit of a politics nerd as well.

I mean, I guess it's easy to get swept up in the horse race if billions of your own dollars depend on it.

Me, I'm watching Question Time to see if I'll ever pay back my student loan, but I'm way cooler, of course.

What is happening now, however, is that the Latin American cartel world, it's going even more underground, right?

It's splintering among groups in Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, without these famous narco chiefs of old.

As Insight Crime's Victoria Dittmeier said, quote, you saw actors that had a more invisible modus operandi.

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