Mexican drug cartel leader, El Chapo, recently escaped from a maximum-security prison by stepping into a shower and then kneeling down into a mile long tunnel. Authorities say the tunnel had light and ventilation and it extended from the prison to a half-built house. El Chapo is the leader of the drug cartel named Sinaloa Cartel. It is said that the cartel trafficks drugs various ways, including by land, air, and sea. They transport cocaine, methamphetamine, marijuana, etc. “Now a massive manhunt is underway to find Guzman,” Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto said. President Enrique Peña promises that the government will recapture El Chapo and further investigate how he escaped. El Chapo is known as the most notorious and richest drug
When actress Kate Del Castillo helped Sean Penn and Rolling Stone Magazine arrange the interview with drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, she had plans of making a movie based on his life as the leader of one of the biggest criminal lords in Mexico.
Joaquin Archivaldo Guzman Loera (El Chapo) was born on December 25, 1954 in the community of Badiraguato, Sinaloa, Mexico. His parents were Emilio Guzman Bustilos and Maria Consuelo Loera Perez. He grew up on his father’s cattle ranch with his two younger sisters, Amida and Bernarda, and four younger brothers, Miguel Angel, Aureliano, Arturo and Emilio. It is also known that his father was an opium farmer. Throughout Guzman’s childhood he was often beaten by his father for standing up to him. Usually protecting his younger siblings therefore he ended up taking his father’s wrath. Guzman dropped out of the third grade to work for his father, this was due to the fact that the nearest school was 60 miles away and the family could not afford to commute. With little education and few opportunities for employment in his hometown, he became to help cultivate opium for his father. His brothers also joined the family business when they came of age. They would harvest the plant by the kilos and his father would sell it to other suppliers. Guzman became tired of his father’s mismanagement, so he started growing and cultivating his own marijuana plantation with a few distant cousins. He then became financially able to support his family, while his father could not. This ended up leading to his father kicking him out due to jealousy. He then went to live with his grandfather, this is where he earned his nickname El Chapo, which means shorty. This due to the fact that he was 5’6” and
According to Ortiz, “Nuevo Laredo Massacre 1 on April 17, 2012, El Chapo’s forces aided by the Gulf Cartel moved into the border city and Zeta strongholds of Nuevo Laredo in an attempt to take control of the border area and left the dismembered bodies of 14 men inside trash bags that had been left inside a minivan outside of Nuevo Laredo City Hall along with a narco-banner signed by El Chapo and addressed to Los Zetas.”
In 1993, EL Chapo was captured and sent to another high maximum security prison in Jalisco, Mexico. Initially, he was placed in a isolated facility until he was able to bribe and threaten the staff to place him with the other inmates. While there, they allowed him to have sex with female prisoners from other institutions, smuggle cocaine through Viagra pills, and treated him like a king (Fusion). Also, he stayed in contact with other extremely powerful drug allies, providing him with money and enforced their power among the guards (Grayson 58). After lawmakers did further investigation on his escape, it has been shown that seventy-one prison officials were receiving regular payments from 'El Chapo' (Morris 254). This continued for eight years (a few days before being extradited to the U.S.) until he decided that it was time for him to escape (Grayson 58). His major influence with his guards, led to them helping hide his body under dirty laundry and smuggling him out of the
The arrest of Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman was a victorious circumstance for the Mexican government, who have been closing down on his presence for the recent past years. Mexican authorities began taking down high ranked members of the Sinaloa Cartel including two of Guzman’s main associates. On February 22, 2014, the world’s most wanted man had also been captured. Although the biggest drug lord has been captured, the crime and violence left behind cannot be forgotten.
Charged for drug trafficking, money laundering, and involvement in 12 murder conspiracies Joaquin (El Chapo) Guzman awaits trials in a court at Manhattan. His extradition occurred January 20, 2017 after several months of a dispute between his lawyers and U.S authorities. He was not physically present for his first court meeting with federal court Judge Brian Cogan. The judge expressed that he expected the first hearing to be “brief and non-substantive” therefore he was “inclined to have defendant present by video transmission only in order to minimize the disruption from physical transportation”. (Keshner, 2017).
Joaquin Guzman best known as “El Chapo” is the world's greatest drug lord. He has been captured three times and has been able to escape twice, once in a laundry basket and the second time he managed to escaped in an underground tunnel built in his shower cell. He was recently recaptured after being fugitive for about six months. Joaquin entered the drug business as a teenager and later became in charge of the Sinaloa cartel. “He shops and ships by some estimates more than half of all the cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and marijuana that come into the United States”(Penn). Many argue that El Chapo is a really bad person that only does a lot of harm to the citizens in Mexico, but what most don't know is that he actually helps some of them.
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Why is it that many Mexicans and, in particular, Sinaloenses (Mexican’s that originate from the state of sinaloa) mystify the figure of Chapo Guzman? Why a high percentage of them resented his capture and celebrated his escape? In a recent survey that was conducted by Univision, they asked Sinaloenses; "With which character would you associate el Chapo with?” and the vast majority responded with Pancho Villa. How can one forget that the organization led by this Capo has been the most important and the most dangerous country to globalize the sale of marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamine and heroin? His cartel occupies at least a 30% of the drug trafficking in Mexico and "came to dominate the global market for synthetic drugs".
Joaquin Archivaldo Guzman Loera, also known as El Chapo, was born in the rural community of La Tuna, Badiraguato, Sinaloa (Beith, 2010). Guzman Loera started his trafficking career in the 1980’s working for the powerful Miguel Angel Felix-Gallardo (U.S Department of State, 2015); he was able to quickly move up the ranks because of his expertise in air logistics (U.S DOS, 2015). Guzman Loera is now the most powerful drug trafficker in the world and the leader of the Sinaloa cartel in Mexico. Thousands of killings have been attributed to Guzman Loera’s organization, along with kidnappings, and extortions. Mexican authorities arrested Guzman Loera on June 9th, 1993, for murder and drug related charges and was given a twenty year sentence in a maximum security prison in Jalisco, Mexico. However, he managed to escape from the maximum security prison on January 19, 2001 (U.S DOS, 2015). His escape from the maximum security prison in Jalisco has allowed him to
Thesis Statement: How Joaquín Guzmán Loera became a mythical figure in Mexico, both a narco folk hero and a villain
I recall spending winters in Ciudad Juarez with my entire family making traditional dishes such as tamales and buñuelos for Christmas. My cousins and I would go outside and have snowball fights and race bikes throughout our neighborhoods. Today it is still difficult to walk around the streets after 7:00pm. Not only does this affect Mexico, but it also affects the United States in an appalling way. A recent study conducted by CNN states that ‘El Chapo’ Guzman has poisoned the streets of Chicago, America’s third largest city. Approximately 80% of illegal narcotics found in Chicago traces back to the Sinaloa Cartel led Guzman. Jack Riley, a deputy administrator of the DEA in Washington, reinforced that Guzman has enabled, “the ability to enter in partnerships, businesses, with nearly 150,000 street gang members who make their living putting heroin and cocaine and meth on the street." El Chapo’s large drug scale operation in Chicago is also a supply point for major cities such as Detroit, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Ohio, New York City, among many others throughout the nation. "Guzman is the reason you've got kids fighting over just one corner, and shooting each other" stated by Art Bilek, a retired Chicago detective. As a result of the ongoing Mexican drug war, approximately 100,000 houses have been abandoned in the wake of this violent war as many have moved to the U.S to seek safety and improved living conditions. Thousands of innocent families are being caught up in the drug war’s carnage. To many cartel members, this war is seen as an exchange of bodies for
Guzmán a considered godfather of the drug world. He became Mexico's top drug kingpin in 2003 after the arrest of his rival Osiel Cárdenas Guillén of the Gulf Cartel, and was considered the "most powerful drug trafficker in the world" by the United States Department of the Treasury. Guzmán had exported more drugs to the United States than anyone else: more than 500 tons (450,000 kg) of cocaine in the U.S. alone. If I am correct from my research. That’s crazy a guy with all this merchandise with 500 tons of cocaine.
Chapo Escobar , A rich and famous man that helps his country due to its poverty and
Leader of a Sinaloa drug dealer has escaped from prison. It was of grave disappointment that such an event had happened. One of the biggest drug lords in Mexico Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman managed to escape even with most stringent security.