This essay will discuss the representation of a Latin American icon, Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera aka ‘El Chapo’ who is a Mexican drug lord who headed the Sinaloa Cartel, a which was named after the Mexican Pacific coast state of Sinaloa where it was formed. This essay will discuss ‘El Chapo’s’ background and some of his early life, also how he became involved with drug trafficking and finally how he was represented in the media and how people seen him more particularly will discuss the famous shows on Netflix called ‘El Chapo’ and ‘The Day I Met El Chapo’.
‘El Chapo’ said in an interview for the Rolling Stone magazine, written by Sean Penn (2016), that he was born into a poor family in the rural community of La Tuna, Badiraguato, Sinaloa,
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Before Pablo Escobar’s death in 1993, ‘El Chapo’ was working with him and there was a solid partnership between Mexican and Colombian drug traffickers, it was only after the death of Pablo Escobar when Mexican drug traffickers peacefully took over the Colombian drug traffickers, which according to Elizabeth Joyce and Carlos Malamud (1998) led to Mexico becoming the principal supplier of drugs to the North American market. ‘El Chapo’s’ Sinaloa Cartel after the peaceful takeover ships tons of cocaine from Colombia through Mexico to the world’s top consumer, the United States and supplies throughout the United State. Sean Penn (2016) says, ‘El Chapo’ had exported more drugs to the United States than anyone else, including Pablo Escobar, more than 500 tons (450,000 kg) of cocaine in the United States alone. According to Edwin Nieves and Santiago Baruh (2016), ‘El Chapo’ was the second most powerful man in Mexico and the ‘biggest drug lord of all time’ also he was considered as ‘the most ruthless, dangerous, and feared man on the planet’ and he matched the influence of Pablo Escobar and he was called as ‘the godfather of the drug …show more content…
Both the United States and the Mexican government offered millions of rewards for information leading to his capture. On the 22nd of February in 2014, he was tracked down and arrested a second time by Mexican authorities with the help of the DEA in Mexico. He captured without any gunshots fired. On the 11th of July 2015, ‘El Chapo’ escaped from prison again by exiting through a system of secret tunnels, with the length of 1.5 km, leading from the shower area to a house construction site.
Dale Sprusansky wrote this about ‘El Chapo’ in the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs,
“Become the most feared and ruthless of the drug lords, flaunting his wealth and power while eluding capture from a massive manhunt. Even when El Chapo's capture was announced, officials knew he would escape and he did, returning to the mountains where troops couldn’t touch him. Courageous, gritty, and gripping” (2016:119).
He was recaptured by Mexican marines and Federal Police following a shootout on the 8th of January in
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Born into a poor family Joaquin only stayed in school till 3rd grade By then he was taken out to help his father with his drug business. When Guzman turned 15 he set out on his own to start his own drug business, which was so successful he was able to support his whole family, and even by his mother a mansion in an otherwise poor city. His drug company evolved into the Sinaloa Cartel and Joaquin Guzman became EL Chapo the Osama Bin Laden of the Drug Trade known for his brutal and meticulous tactics. El Chapo became one of the richest men in the world earning a place on Forbes billionaires list for four years until they took him off because they couldn't find his money's origin. He is also considered one of the greatest criminals in Mexico escaping 2 supermax prisons 2001 and 2015 and becoming the only other man besides Al Capone to be Chicago's public enemy No.1. El Chapo’s power not only over the Mexican drug cartel but also financially has made him a difficult person for the police to
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.
...'s most wanted drug lord, El Chapo. Even though these are good results, the cartel is still thriving. It has said that it has gotten worse because about 1,000 people have died each month in drug violence since Pena Nieto took office, and the army is still involved in clashes with the cartels across large parts of the country.
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 cartels are now in control of most of the drug trades and are successful. The Mexican border gives them the power to go everywhere they desire, making them a relentless force. “To date operation Xcellrator has led the arrest of 755 individuals and the seizure of approximately 5 U.S. Currency more than 12,000 kilograms of cocaine, more than 16,000 pounds of marijuana, more than 11,000 of methamphetamine, more than 8 kilograms of heroin, approximately 1.3 million pills of ecstasy”(Doj 2). Mexican cartels extend to central and southern America. Columbia is the supply of much of the cocaine exported to the U.S. Colombia is under control of South American gangs, they do business with the Mexican cartels to transport drugs the north. The Northern Mexican gangs hold the most control because the territory is very important (Wagner1). They are many different types of cartel in Mexico it also signifies that there are killing each other so their cartel can expand an...
They spoke of Kate as if she was a subject criticizing her personally instead of reading deep into the tweet discussing the main message. In the documentary “The Day I Met El Chapo” the director included interviews from Kate’s friends and other officials such as a retired DEA agent. The retired DEA agent, Hector Berrellex states, “El Chapo is a violent serial killer and nobody should be honoring him to include Kate del Castillo.” Instead of reading her tweet and noticing that her intent was to criticise El Chapo and the Mexican government at the same time. These opposing views towards Kate and the tweet she made are a common reaction towards any form of change. One example would be Rosa Parks, she did not move from the front of the bus for a white person because she had every right to sit there. The reaction to her transgression was jail time for not obeying the law. Kate’s transgression resulted in the media putting a magnifying glass on Kate, her family, friends, and the dangers from criticising the largest cartel leader. The Mexican government opposed Kate’s tweet by harming her career as an actress, and preventing her from visiting anywhere in Mexico. One opinion about El Chapo is someone not to be messed with similar to Al Capone. Another opinion of El Chapo is that he was just trying to
The Mexican drug-trafficking cartels are said to have been established in the 1980s by a man named Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, also known as “The Godfather”. With the help of Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo and Rafael Caro Quintero, Miguel started the Guadalajara Cartel, which is one of the first to have thrived from association with the Colombian cocaine trade. The two men who helped Miguel Gallardo establish the cartel were arrested, so Gallardo, the single leader of the cartel “was smart enough to privatize the Mexican drug trade by having it run by lesser-known bosses” (The Five Most Famous Drug Cartels”), that he often met with in Acapulco. Eventually Miguel was arrested as well which caused the split of the Guadalajara Cartel into the Sinaloa Cartel and the Tijuana Cartel.
In the beginning, Cesar Chavez started having a hard life ever since he was young. He was born on March 31, 1927 in San Luis Arizona, near Yuma. He had two brothers and two sisters. He started working at a young age after his family lost their ranch on an economic crisis. As a consequence, they moved and started living in a barrio, which was a poor area of town in San Jose, California and they started living as immigrants. Later, he left school in order to start working with his family in fields and, in a way, start supporting his family. They used to move from farm to farm in look for more fields to harvest, so they could get more money. When he was seventeen he enlisted into the United States Navy and served for two years. At his return, in 1948, he married the love of his life, Helen Fabela, and eventually years later they had eight children together.
In Jeanette Schmidt’s article, Transporting Cocaine states, “Colombian cartels would pay the Mexican groups as much as $1,000/kilo to smuggle cocaine into the United States” (Schmidt, 2). The Colombian cartels would then pick up the drugs and resume distribution and sales efforts, making personal profits that are unrecorded. In order to seize these individuals who are growing in power and numbers, the U.S. must control the connections between Mexico and Columbia. Mexico is the biggest transporter amongst Columbia and the U.S. because it shares a border with the U.S. This increasingly poisonous drug trafficking leads to drug dealers...
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Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, age 56, is responsible for half the illegal narcotics that are imported into the U.S each year. “El Chapo” meaning shorty, is believed to be the world’s most powerful drug lord. In 1993 El Chapo was arrested and was believed to escape in a laundry truck in 2001. Sinaloa has became the largest drug trafficking organization in Mexico. El Chapo’s supplies eighty percent of the drugs entering the U.S, mostly Chicago. People say that El Chapo is controlling Sinaloa’s drug operations from hiding somewhere in the mountains of Durango. He didn’t have much education, he ended school in third grade and worked until the 1980’s when he joined ...
Relevance: Guzman is the leader of one of the largest criminal organizations in the world, thus making him one of the most powerful men in the world.
Sub Point 1: Tessa Vinson explains the origins of The Cartel in the Spring 2009 issue of The Monitor. Chinese immigrants working on the railroads brought with them the knowledge of how to grow poppy. Poppy is a plant which contains opium which is a source for many other drugs. As the need for poppy grew in demand Sinaloens began to export it through the Pacific Railroad into the United States. The United States and Mexico became increasingly aware of this and launched "Operation Condor" on November 1975, which eliminated most poppy fields aerially. This forced many small cartels to go out of business but also eliminated competition for the more established cartels. With the supply of poppy gone most cartels shifted their attention toward Columbian cocaine. In the mid-1970s Drug lord Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo who was in charge of powerful Guadalajara cartel began to export cocaine, he became known as "El Padrino" as he eventually controlled almost all of the drug market. (Vinson, 2009, pp.