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.
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 Tuna, Sinaloa. Although a number of myths about his father being an opium farmer have not been proven, he was actually a cattle rancher. Guzman has two younger sisters and four younger brothers. As a child, Guzman had a responsibility of selling oranges. In fact, he dropped out of school in the third grade to work for his father. Although his father physically abused him and treated him brutal, he stood up to his father when it came to his younger siblings for their own protection.
His father sold marijuana while Guzman was a young teen. The money his father made with this marijuana business was spent on booze and prostitutes, so he really did not spend his money properly. At the age of 15, Guzman started his own marijuana business and usually
Roman 2 supported his family financially. During this stage of Guzman’s life, he was kicked out of his house by his abusive father. Therefore he decided to live with his grandfather. During Guzman’s teenage era is when he was nicknamed ‘El Chapo’ meaning “...
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“ Life is full of surprises, some good, some not so good.” Pablo Escobar once said this when he became the leader of the Medellin Cartel in Colombia. Another person who had the same mentality is Joaquin Guzman also known as El Chapo the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel. The similarities of these men are that they quickly rose to power through illegal ventures. For many years these two men were causing havoc all over the world. Pablo and El Chapo both became the most wanted men in the world at one point in their lives. People wanted these men off of the streets to for the can be put in jail. Finally the people got want they wanted and they men both got thrown in jail.
Joaquin Guzman was a lieutenant of the cartel when it first came to power, and took full control in the 1990s after the arrest of the preceding leader
A drug cartel is a combination of drug manufacturing and drug transportation organizations under one person’s leadership. While there is numerous drug cartels around the world the Mexican cartels have arguably more power than most in regards to territory and membership. This power has allowed them to have main control in not only Mexico but in the United States as well making them a key player in the drug trade. In 2006, the Mexican government challenged multiple drug cartels such as the Sinaloa cartel, The Los Zetas, and the Gulf cartel, beginning the Mexican Drug War. This war has gone on for the past ten years and is still continuing today, causing the death of 10,000 people a year on average. The Mexican Drug War is having a negative impact
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...ation in a 10-vehicle convoy in July, sprayed it with hundreds of rounds of gunfire and then lobbed grenades at it. Rosas Perez survived.” This quote shows just how reckless and violent the cartel is. It also shows how they can have an affect on politics.
Welcoming to the stage the infamous drug lord, nicknamed “El Chapo”, is none other than Joaquín Guzmán Loera. Mr. Guzmán impressively runs the biggest and richest network of drugs in the world. Starting his career by growing marijuana, El Chapo has surely made a name for himself as he climbed to the top. Guzmán has not only been named one of the richest people in the world but also has escaped maximum- security prison twice. (And probably will a third time.) Let’s all give Mister El Chapo, Joaquín Guzmán Loera a round of applause!
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When he first formed the cartel. He chose marijuana because it was the cash crop of the time and then in the 1980s he switch to cocaine because that became the new cash crop. His cartels cocaine made up 80% of the United States illegal drug market and made up 90% of Europe’s illegal drug market. On June 9, 1995 was arrested by the Colombian National Police during a house raid in Cali. He was found in a hollowed-out bathroom cabinet with an oxygen tank. He was sentence to 15 years. Then in 2002 he was temporality freed because of a controversial judicial order issued by deputy judge Pedro José Suárez, who considered that the above reduction was applicable through habeas corpus. He was recaptured by Colombian authorities in Cali, in March 2003. Then on December 3, 2004 he was extradited to the United States. September 26, 2006 he took a plea bargain and was 30-year sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution in Memphis
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.
Over the last several decades, violence has consumed and transformed Mexico. Since the rise of dozens of Mexican cartels, the Mexican government has constantly been fighting an ongoing war with these criminal organizations. The cartel organizations have a primary purpose of managing and controlling illegal drug trafficking operations in Central America and South America to the United States. Violence on a massive and brutal scale has emerged due to the nature of the illegal drug trade. Because the drug trade is vastly widespread, cartels are often fighting one another and competing in business. Mexican authorities count at least 12 major cartels, but also talk of an untold numbers of smaller splinter groups. (Taipei Times). Five cartels from Mexico have risen to become the extremely powerful amongst all the drug organizations operating in Mexico. The Guadalajara Cartel, the Sinaloa Cartel, the Tijuana Cartel, the Juarez Cartel, and the Gulf Cartel. These organizations, along with other distinguished Mexican cartels, have plagued Mexico with violence, terror, and fear due to the essence and nature of illegal drug trafficking.
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Growing up Escobar was exposed to many things that coerced him to be the man he became. Pablo Escobar grew up during a time called La Violencia (The Violence) it was a time of civil war between the Columbian Conservative Party and the Columbian
The paper traces Escobar's life from humble peasant beginnings to powerful cocaine drug dealer and kingpin. The paper discusses the sound financial decisions Escobar made as well as the way he invested in legitimate projects using the funds he gained illegally. The paper explores the influence Escobar had and the way he worked, ultimately unsuccessfully, to establish a no-extradition clause into the Colombian constitution.
Beith, Malcolm. (2013, September 24). The current state of Mexico's many drug cartels. CTC Sentinal