Who was a better drug lord? This term paper consists of two drug lords. One named Pablo Escobar and the other name Joaquin Guzman. Pablo Escobar was born December 1st, 1949 in Antioquia Colombia. He married Maria Henao and had two children. He went on in life to be a drug lord in Colombia and died December 2nd, 1993 a day after his birthday. Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was born December 25th, 1954 or April 4th, 1957. Neither date has been identified as his primary birth date. He married Emma Aispuro and had 13 children. This is a compare and contrast term paper between two different drug lords with the same aspiration. Pablo Escobar entered the cocaine trade in the early 1970s. He collaborated with other criminals to form the Medellin Cartel and eventually controlled over 80% of the cocaine shipped to the U.S. In 1975, Medellin drug trafficker Fabio Restrepo was murdered. His killing, it’s believed, came at the orders of Escobar, who immediately seized power and …show more content…
By the late 70s he started to work with Hector Luis and Palma Sinaloa. In Guzman late 20s was said to have gotten his name because he was 5’6 and he earned his name El Chapo. He kept a low profile but when his boss was arrested in 1985 because he murder an American drug Enforcement Agency agent he quickly surfaced has the new boss of the Mexican drug world. Joaquin Guzman founded the Sinaloa cartel in 1989 over time his business brought large profit in global drug trafficking.The DEA and FBI believed that he was the most powerful and dangerous drug trafficker at the time.Then the traffickers from Medellin and Cali. Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera also known as El Chapo is a Mexican drug lord who heads the Sinaloa Cartel, a criminal organization named after the Mexican Pacific coast state of Sinaloa where it was formed. Joaquín is 5 ft 6 in. Joaquín weight 201 lb. He has 4
Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera was born on April 4, 1957 in Sinaloa, Mexico. He was born into a poor family in a rural community. His parents are Emilio Guzman Bustillos and Maria Consuelo Loera Perez. For numerous generations, his family’s legacy lived and died in La
Real name Joaquin Archiavldo Guzman Loera he is the Leader of the Sinaloa Cartel. He is commonly known as El Chapo Guzman mean Shorty Guzman for his slight size he became the most powerful Drug Kingpin in Mexico in 2003 after Osiel Cardenas of the rival Gulf cartel. He is considered to be the most powerful drug trafficker in the world by the USDT. His first encounter with Organized crime was in the 1970s as a drug trafficker for the drug lord Hector “El Guerra Palma.” He moved and oversaw shipments of drugs from Sierra Madre to Places near the US border transported by aircraft. He was very motivated and often asked his superiors to increase his share of the drugs smuggled across the border. He was very ruthless and impatient about his business if a shipment arrived late he would shot the smuggler in the head. He was soon introduced to Felix Gallardo who he ran logistics for Smuggling drugs from Columbia by air land and sea to Mexico, While Palma got the drugs into the USA. After this initial introduction Guzman only grew in power.
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
Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera (born December 25, 1954,[1] or April 4, 1957[2]) is a Mexican drug lord who heads the Sinaloa Cartel, a criminal organization named after the Mexican Pacific coast state of Sinaloa where it was initially formed. Known as "El Chapo Guzmán" ("Shorty Guzmán", pronounced: [el ˈtʃapo gusˈman]) for his 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) stature, he became Mexico's top drug kingpin in 2003 after the arrest of his rival Osiel Cárdenas of the Gulf Cartel, and is now considered "The most powerful drug trafficker in the world," by the United States Department of the Treasury.[5][6]
Pablo Escobar is well known throughout the world as one of their greatest outlaws. He grew from obscurity to be the leading cocaine distributor in the world. He led an empire of terror, drugs, money, and violence. He was a gangster and outlaw in the ranks of icons such as Al Capone, Bonnie and Clyde, and John Gotti. He can only be understood by looking at the man’s early life, his rise to ultimate power, and the absolute necessity of ending his reign of terror by any means.
He is well known for becoming one of the biggest and richest drug lords in the world. In 1993 Guzman was captured and deported to Mexico where he was sentenced to 20 years in prison for murder and drug trafficking. “As the Mexican Drug War continued to escalate over the past decade, the cult of El Chapo only grew larger and larger” (Delanty). Since then Sinaloa has become the leading drug trafficking city in Mexico as well as the center of narcocorridos. In 2001 Guzman managed to bribe his way out of prion becoming the most wanted man in Mexico and the U.S. “Rumors about possible sightings of the drug lord spread like wildfire and a canon of songs were written about his whereabouts and escapades” (Delanty). For instances, Los Canelos de Durango who are well known for their narcocorriods wrote a song as a tribute to “El Chapo”. The corrido “El Señor de la Montaña” (The man of the mountain) spoke about the protection he had from the authorities and his
At the time Murphy was transferred, Colombia was known as the center point for the world’s drug trade. Murphy was paired with another DEA agent in Colombia, Javier Pena. Murphy and Pena worked all over Colombia to find any leads for the Colombian National Police. When Escobar’s wealth became an issue of public debate the U.S. increased pressure on Colombia to extradite him.
Pablo Escobar is the most powerful and most wealthiest drug lord to live. Pablo Escobar’s life was dedicated to money, drugs, and his country of Columbia. Although,more than anything, family came first.He had a wife by the name of maria and two kids, Manuela and Sebastion. Pablo Escobar didn’t technically run columbia but he did control lots of things such as the younger generation. For instance, About 20% of teenagers in the late 1980’s were selling little amounts of marijuana and way larger amounts of cocaine for the benefit of Pablo Escobar’s pocket.Also, Churches throughout Columbia were being functioned by Pablo Escobar so that people could praise their lord. Throughout the 17 years of being one of the world’s most wanted men in several
During the 1970’s through the late 1990’s Colombia was widely known as the birth place for the cocaine drug traffickers. Colombia has produced the two most famous drug traffickers that have produced lots of cocaine and tons of money. Those drug traffickers were Griselda Blanco and Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria and his Medellin Cartel. Pablo Escobar and his cartel, The Medellin Cartel did most destruction to the country of Colombia. But poverty in Colombia has been reduced due to Pablo Escobar and his Medellin Cartel. Since the beginning of La Viuda and Escobar, Colombia has grown as a country with its citizen to do better and prevent these drug lords to do damage once more. Griselda Blanco was the first women drug lord that made the country of Colombia lots of chaos.
One of the biggest drug lords that was on the streets ever was named Pablo Escobar. He was a “drug kingpin”. He was able to smuggle over 80% of cocaine into the United States without getting caught. Making as much as $21.9 billion a year in personal income. He was considered the most influential drug lord of all time. Pablo was
Colombia’s Robin Hood & Menace: Pablo Escobar Did Pablo Escobar’s crimes outweigh his legacy left behind? Pablo Escobar is best known for globalizing the drug called “crack cocaine”. He made cocaine a drug of choice throughout the world and along with his special army, he generated revenues of billions of dollars into n the drug trafficking business with his main clientele located in the United States of America. He was so successful and powerful that in 1987 Forbes listed him in on their Forbes’ Top Ten Richest People List, coming in at 7th.
During the early 1990’s Colombia being one of the biggest exporters of narcotics in history, led by Pablo Escobar, who had a wide range of organized crime affiliations throughout Latin America. Pablo Escobar was a Colombian drug lord and he smuggled narcotics all the way to South Florida as when authorities tried to capture him. One of Pablo Escobar’s most important alliances was that of the Mexican-based traffickers. Escobar knew that this was an important trade route because of its geography and how it would be easier to smuggle the narcotics into the United States. This allowed a smuggling partnership between both countries and Mexico was to eventually lead their own drug based trafficking system with the help of Pablo Escobar. From the distributed drugs, cartels would take a certain amount of profit, and would use that money to bribe Mexican officials. By bribing Mexican officials it was insured that if smugglers were to be arrested they would either be let go, the case would be dropped or taking action against a rival smuggling group by giving away information about the rival’s plan to carry
Pablo Escobar, born December 1, 1949, in Antioquia, Colombia, entered the cocaine trade in the early 1970s. Instead of fighting against his opposition, he formed a coalition between the heads of all the ranking criminal families in Columbia, and set out to assemble the Medellin Cartel. This cartel would eventually go on to control over 80% of the cocaine shipped to the U.S. at its peak. He earned popularity by sponsoring charity projects and soccer clubs, but later terror campaigns and killing sprees of local law enforcement and judges turned public opinion against him. He was known
Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria was born on December 1, 1949- December 2, 1993 he was known as Colombia drug lord and cocaine traffic. He also was known in the 1983 as the King of cocaine. He also was the wealthiest criminal in the history with an estimated net-worth of $ 30 billion by the early 1990s. Pablo Escobar stared his criminal carrier when he was a teenager, being a teenager in the street of Medellin without the love of his family he started to commit server crime like stealing, gravestone, allegedly. Pablo also when to school for a short time he attempt to University of Antioquia. He also was involved in many crimes selling contraband cigarette, selling fake lottery ticket and stealing cars. He was committed a lot
Pablo Escobar had a great impact on drug trade to the U.S. in the 1980s. How he got into cocaine, how he smuggled, it shows and how he was brought down.