Posted on 07/12/2015 7:52:29 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Mexican authorities have launched a manhunt to find drug kingpin Joaquin Guzman, who has broken out of prison again, the country’s National Security Commission said Sunday.
Guards at the Altiplano Federal Prison discovered during a routine check on Saturday that Guzman, known as “El Chapo,” was missing, a statement from the commission said.
Guzman escaped through a hole in his cell that led to a tunnel nearly a mile long, Mexico National Security spokesman Monte Alejandro Rubido García confirmed Sunday morning at a press conference in Mexico City. The hole led to a tunnel that was lighted and ventilated, the spokesman said.
Guzman is the storied boss of one of the world’s most powerful and deadly drug trafficking operations.
He escaped in 2001 from a high-security prison in a laundry cart and was not apprehended again until 2014, when he was arrested at a Mexican beach resort.
Guzman heads the Sinaloa cartel, which, according to an opinion piece by the author Don Winslow published last month by CNN, is by far the most dominant drug trafficking organization in Mexico today.
The heroin epidemic in the northeastern United States is supplied largely by the Sinaloa cartel, Winslow wrote.
In Mexico, the diminutive Guzman became a larger-than-life figure as he eluded authorities while expanding a drug empire that spanned the world. His life story became the topic of best-selling books and the subject of adoring songs known as narcocorridos.
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He is probably safe, sipping coffee at a donut shop in sanctuary city San Francisco.
Well, he built an empire from mostly nothing, has thumbed his nose at the corrupt government, and the Sinaloans seem to be the cartel that abuses its position of power the least, in Mexico.
These are the sort of things “heroic” criminals are made of.
Payolla.
Hangin with his peep, Lousy Pelousy.
He’s Mexico’s Pablo Escobar.
someone ask that douchewaffle Sheriff in SF what he do if found El Chapo smoking on the sidewalk in his city
Now that he’s out he should just buy the Mexican prison system and run it as a for profit enterprise, as we have done in the US, with a guaranteed occupancy level. And the Mexican gov can provide the inmates from rival gangs?
Everyone wins. right?
These are the sort of things “heroic” criminals are made of.
Likely, no doubt he's a bad bad bad hombre but this is what has happened because of their governmental elites not giving squat about the common people of Mexico.
Sinaloa is where a lot of the drug growing and trade has originated for for many decades, 1950s at least. Seems to me they could burn those crop fields somewhere a long the line. The government on various levels have probably turned a blind eye to this as well. As I posted elsewhere, the Reagan administration had to lean on Mexico for them to bring in the killers of DEA Agent Camarena, and that was dealing with those out of Sinaloa as well.
It has to be added in that it is thought that El Chapo largely got the real bloody war started though because he invaded the Juarez plaza, the place near El Paso so many drugs come through. At least that is what is written:
“In May 2009, the U.S. National Public Radio (NPR) aired multiple reports alleging that the Mexican federal police and military were working in collusion with the Sinaloa Cartel. In particular, the report claimed the government was helping the Sinaloa Cartel to take control of the Juarez Valley area and destroy other cartels, especially the Juarez Cartel.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinaloa_Cartel
And see, the government probably has at times, been lenient, cooperative with the Sinaloans as stated above. Back during Reagan’s administration as well.
Probably not too far from the truth.
Oh, yes, of course, SURE, they have!
They probably let the piece of crap out.
To me, the Zetas are sort of the ISIS of the Mexican drug wars, they started the more brutal acts apparently and are like the devil on earth. And then again, if one sees the government siding with one Cartel, it can be the thing that breeds something like the Zetas. But the Zetas who are against Chapo’s empire of course, can’t be forgiven for horrors such as kidnappings and murder, they are probably involved in moving people across the border too. Complex situation, I heard some movie came out “Cartel land” and it talks about the self-defense groups (Auto defensas, Vigilantes to some) who defend with a measure of success, their own cities since the Mexican government and local police don’t do the job. What a mess.
Yup
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