chapo guzman

admitted to the murder of Juan Antonio Guerra-Torres and his involvement of the murder with other participants.

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

Drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, a legend in Mexico through his dramatic prison escapes and years of staying just ahead of the law, arrived late Thursday in New York after his extradition to the United States.

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.

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 late 1970’s, Guzman worked under the drug lord Hector “El Guero” Palma by transporting narcotics near U.S.-Mexico border through aircraft. Although Guzman’s rank in the cartel was very minimal, he took his job very seriously. For example, if any of his drug shipments were not on schedule, he would kill the smuggler himself usually letting them experience a slow and painful death. Business partners quickly learned that ripping Guzman off or betraying him was not an option. The way Guzman handled business helped him gain popularity. In the 1980’s, the dominant Guadalajara Cartel introduced him to Felix Gallardo, one of Mexico’s high ranked drug lords. Guzman began working for Gallardo as a chauffeur then quickly moved up in the business with the role of coordinating drug shipments from Columbia to Mexico through land, air, and sea. Palma on the other hand delivered his drugs into the United States. Guzman earned himself a lot of respect for his work and began working for Gallardo directly. Throughout the late 70’s and early 80’s, Mexico drug traffickers were the middlemen for Columbian drug trafficking groups. They would simply transport drugs into the U.S. and receive a fee for each kilogram. At this point Gallardo was the top drug kingpin in Mexico. When Gallardo was arrested, Guzman reportedly lived in Guadalajara, Jalisco. He owned several houses throughout

El Chapo was considered the most powerful drug lord until his second arrest in Mexico in February 2014. The fugitive had already made his great escape once in Mexico by being wheeled out in a laundry cart, but the master drug lord is famous for yet another escape through an underground tunnel. The tunnel was 50-by-50-centimeters under the shower area. It stretched about a mile long and was equipped with a motorcycle on tracks. There are several possible places where Guzman could be hiding starting with his hometown. It's a mountainous area and contains a vast network of citizens that would be happy to hide him from police. The US is extremely mad due to the fact that they wanted Guzman to be extradited because of concerns that be

In the North, they were both betrayed by local insurrection leader Ignacio Elizondo and captured. Then they were sent to trial in the city of Chihuahua and were found guilty and sentenced to death, except for Mariano Abasolo, who was sent to Spain to serve a life sentence. Being a priest, Hidalgo had to undergo a civil trial as well as a visit from the Inquisition. He was removed of his priesthood, found guilty, and executed on July 30. Hidalgo, Allende, Aldama, and Jimenez’s heads were all hung from the four corners of the granary of Guanajuato as a warning for those who try to stand up to the Spanish. Father Hidalgo became a great leader after he died. He represented a symbol of hope to the Mexicans and his death allowed others to pick up where he left off and continue the fight for independence.

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".

In Mexico, the drug cartels are a big problem for the U.S. because when the cartel people get arrested they get sent up here so they can’t be broken out of jail. These transportations cost a lot of America’s money that we have to fund for. Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is one of the biggest drug lord in all of Mexico. Mexico wants to send El Chapo up here to the U.S. so he can face the trial up here and go to jail here so he can’t be broken out again. This problem costs a lot of money that

[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

In 1976, Pablo Escobar and some of the men that work under him were arrested for possession of 39 kilograms of white paste, cocaine. Pablo attempted to bribe two Columbian judges but he failed and later murdered the two cops that arrested him and his men. After this incident, his case was dropped and he decided to handle situations involving authorities by bribing or killing them. 4