Emma Coronel Aispuro also helped her husband plan a dramatic escape through a tunnel dug underneath a prison in Mexico in 2015 by smuggling a GPS watch to him disguised as a food item, prosecutors said during a hearing in federal court in Washington.Nov 30, 2021
Pablo EscobarPablo Escobar, in full Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria, (born December 1, 1949, Rionegro, Colombia—died December 2, 1993, Medellín), Colombian criminal who, as head of the Medellín cartel, was arguably the world's most powerful drug trafficker in the 1980s and early '90s.Jan 1, 2022
Sinaloa CartelIt's not a secret that the most powerful drug cartels worldwide are based in Mexico. Sinaloa Cartel and Jalisco New Generation Cartel are the two most dominant and dangerous, according to DEA's reports.Nov 30, 2021
lord Joaquin GuzmanCCTV footage shows the moment the Mexican drug lord Joaquin Guzman escaped from prison through a tunnel dug in his cell. Guzman, also known as El Chapo or Shorty, is the leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel.
El MayoEl Mayo is the leader of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel, taking over five years ago for the notorious drug lord known as El Chapo. El Mayo has been on the lam for decades. He is 73 and said to be in ill health, and may no longer be on the run.Sep 29, 2021
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It is currently headed by Ismael Zambada García and is based in the city of Culiacán, Sinaloa, with operations in many world regions but primarily in the Mexican states of Sinaloa, Baja California, Durango, Sonora, and Chihuahua.
Guzmán, the infamous former leader of the Sinaloa cartel, is serving a life sentence in a US prison. He was one of the biggest traffickers of drugs to the US and, in 2009, entered Forbes' list of the world's richest men at number 701, with an estimated worth of $1bn.Jul 6, 2021
Guzmán ran free for almost six months before he was recaptured in January 2016. This time, after a year of negotiations, Mexico agreed when U.S. officials again sought his extradition.Jul 17, 2019
Prisoners can start digging a tunnel out of their Cell or Dormitory (not Holding Cells), using the fastest route to the outer-most wall beyond the prison area. A tool, such as a spoon, is required to dig. ... Whilst they can dig through pipes, prisoners won't dig through or under natural Water, like ponds or lakes.
Episode 1111. Episode 11. The world reacts to El Chapo's escape.
During his earlier incarceration—the one which he escaped through the laundry cart—Guzman reportedly paid over $2.5 million in bribes and relied heavily on cooperation with authorities. According to Keefe, Saturday’s escape was also the result of a team effort.
Late on Saturday night, Joaquin Guzman walked into a shower at Mexico’s maximum-security Altiplano Prison, entered a secret tunnel, and moved underground for more than a kilometer before emerging in a house on the other side of the prison walls. Just one year after his arrest for drug trafficking and organized crime triggered ...
For Guzman—known as “El Chapo” because of his short stature—the escape adds another chapter to an almost mythical life. Born and raised in rural poverty, the 58-year-old rose to become ...
Policemen guard the site where a tunnel, connected to the Altiplano Federal Penitentiary and used by drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman to escape, was located in Almoloya de Juarez, on the outskirts of Mexico City, July 12, 2015. ( Tomas Bravo / Reuters) July 12, 2015.
Felipe Calderon, Mexico’s president until 2013, once claimed that 90 percent of the victims of the drug wars were “criminals.”. But the kidnappings, extortion, and police corruption seep into every corner of society.
As the New Yorker ’s Patrick Radden Keefe—the author of an outstanding profile of El Chapo published in 2012 — wrote on Sunday, it’s natural to hold a perverse fascination with criminal derring-do.
Despite his complicity in untold death and misery, the escape from authority had turned El Chapo into an unlikely “Robin Hood” figure, a man whose exploits were portrayed in books, film, and popular music.