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Feb. 22, 2013 -- It seems that Mexican drug boss Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán is alive and well, and probably laughing at those thousands of Twitter users, as well as some government officials, who suggested on Thursday that he was dead.
Guzmán is believed to be responsible for the deaths of over 34,000 people, [5] and was considered to be the most powerful drug trafficker in the world until he was extradited to the United States and sentenced to life in prison. [6][7] Guzmán was born in Sinaloa and raised in a poor farming family.
The world's most powerful drug lord, Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzman, has been killed in a gun battle between drug gangs, Guatemalan authorities suspect. The 58-year-old head of the Sinaloa cartel is thought to have been among the bodies left after the shoot-out in a remote rural area of Peten, in Guatemala.
Joaquin Guzman, also known as El Chapo, head of the Sinaloa drug cartel, one of the most powerful and notorious criminal organizations in Mexico from the late 20th century. Learn about his life, criminal career, arrests, prison escapes, and more in this article.
The "El Chapo" case stands out both by the extent of Guzman's enterprise and by the difficulty in bringing him to justice. The manhunt for his capture started in 1993 and he was only convicted in 2019. El Chapo made the Sinaloa Cartel one of the biggest cartels in the world.
"You are all going to die," he warned police in the hours after his capture in Los Mochis, north-west Mexico, on 8 January 2016. Three years on, Guzmán has been handed a life sentence, plus 30...
It was nighttime in May of 1990, in the heyday of the cocaine boom across America. Twenty Mexican federal police officers and a handful of U.S. Customs agents, acting on a tip, descended on a...
Here’s a look at the life of Joaquín Guzmán, otherwise known as “El Chapo,” a Mexican drug lord who has repeatedly broken out of prison. He was recaptured in January 2016 and later extradited...
In 2005, the notorious leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel, Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera, swept into a restaurant in the US-Mexico border town of Nuevo Laredo with a slew of armed henchmen....
In 2016, El Chapo was captured and extradited to the United States, where he stood trial on charges of drug trafficking, money laundering, and murder. The trial was widely publicized and revealed the extent of El Chapo’s criminal empire, as well as his brutal tactics and corrupt practices.