El Chappo Research Paper

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.

Thesis Statement: How Joaquín Guzmán Loera became a mythical figure in Mexico, both a narco folk hero and a villain

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

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

In defense for his client, Braun explained to Spanish newspaper El Pais that Castillo merely wanted to speak with El Chapo to get some insights for the treatment of the film as well as to get to know the kingpin.

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

In the article Penn states, “He's wearing a casual patterned silk shirt, pressed black jeans, and he appears remarkably well-groomed and healthy for a man on the run.” This quote by Sean Penn implies that Penn was a bit surprised by the appearance of Guzman for a guy on the run. Penn thought that for a guy on the run he would look normal but in contrast he looked healthy and well groomed. Penn also states, “I realize that our driver had been the 29-yearold son of El Chapo, Alfredo Guzman. He boards beside me, designated among our personal escorts to see his father. He's handsome, lean and smartly dressed, with a wristwatch that might be of more value than the money housed by the central banks of most nation-states. He's got one hell of a wristwatch.” What Penn implies is that Guzman’s son is dressed very well, and has a very expensive watch. Penn says that his watch might be worth more than most banks in other nation states. Penn is trying to portray their wealth by what they wear. Guzman’s net worth is around 1 billion U.S. dollars. This ties back to labeling because Penn is describing the Guzman’s as people that are superior to

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.

Chico: Back in the barrio, I played in a mariachi band for the Sinaloa Drug Cartel. El Chapo liked my playing he told me "If you ever need anything Chico, don't hesitate to ask.".

Unicorns are known amongst the populous for being in just about every little girl’s imaginary sky castle. To understand the evidence proving unicorns, one must first know where the idea of a unicorn came to be. Lore surrounding the unicorn could not be easily dated, simply that it was there in an unrecorded history. The closest date hat has been speculated would be that unicorn lore started in about 300 B.C.E. (Shepard). Stories of the unicorn told nowadays are seen as pure fantasy that they live up in the sky, and they only come down to feed on grass. Or that they ride on rainbows. The main thing that makes a unicorn a unicorn is that it is equestrian in form, and that it has one protruding horn out of the top of its head. Back in 2014, a

The Sinaloa Cartel is considered the largest and wealthiest organized crime syndicate in the Western Hemisphere. Run by drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the Sinaloa Cartel is the biggest player in the Mexican drug trafficking trade. “Mexican drug trafficking is estimated by analysts to be worth $13 billion US a year,” according to the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC, 2015, par. 2). Heavily involved in the production and distribution of marijuana, cocaine and opium, the Sinaloa Cartel is also operates prostitution rings and deals in human trafficking. According to CBC, “analysts estimate that since 2006, 70,000 people have been killed in drug-related violence.” The Sinaloa Cartel is the United States Government’s biggest obstacle in the international war on drugs and its diabolical leader is once again free.

[edit] Arrest and escapeGuzmán was captured in Guatemala on June 9, 1993,[10] extradited to Mexico and sentenced to 20 years, 9 months in prison for drug trafficking, criminal association and bribery charges. He was jailed in the maximum security La Palma (now 'Altiplano') prison. On November 22, 1995, he was transferred to the maximum security Puente Grande prison in Jalisco, Mexico, after being convicted of three crimes: possession of firearms, drug trafficking, and the murder of Cardinal Juan Jesus Posadas Ocampo (the charge would later be dismissed by

     How ever law enforcement was closing in on Escobar. The U.S. want him to be extradited to the U.S. but Escobar surrendered to the Colombian’s in exchange for a promise not to be extradited to the U.S. He was able to design his own luxurious prison and continued to run his business behind the walls. Fifty new charges were brought against Pablo, including political assassination and mass murder. Escobar confessed to just one shipment of cocaine to Europe. When two men came and told Pablo he was being transferred to a military prison, Pablo would have none of this, and he took out hidden weapons, taking the two men hostage. After a night of negotiations 400 army commandos stormed the jail, but Escobar and his brother, along with many others, were gone. After 16 months on the run, he was finally hunted down by Columbian police with the aid of U.S. technology that recognized Escobar’s voice on a cell phone. On December 2, 1993 Pablo Escobar was killed trying to run away on a roof top in one of his safe houses in Columbia.

When he is arrested he says, "How much is the Turk paying you" the colloquialism, "Turk," and the pronoun, "you," shows you that there is corruption in order to get power and that even the

    Jorge Ochoa Vasquez was in jail at La Picota prison in Bogotá, Colombia.  He is thirty-eight years old and a billionaire.  Jorge was in jail because he was a drug dealer.  He was just recently let out of prison. There isn’t a clear reason why he was able to leave, but he could have bribed his  way out or intimidated the officials.  “ One of his attorney’s reportedly showed up at Bogota’s La Picota prison with writ for Ochoa’s release signed by a Colombian Judge,” says TIME Magazine.