El Chapo Guzman once said.“It's a reality that drugs destroy people Unfortunately where I grew up, there's no other way to survive.” El Chapo is considered the most powerful trafficker in the world. El Chapo was the most ruthless,dangerous,and feared on the planet. He matched the influence and reach of Pablo Escobar, and considered him the godfather of the drug lord. In 2013, the Chicago crime commision named Guzman Public enemy number one. Guzman’s Sinaloa Cartel transports multi-ton cocaine shipments from Colombia through Mexico to the United States, the world’s top consumer, and has distribution cells throughout the U.S. Each year from 2009 to 2011, Forbes magazine ranked Guzman as one of the most powerful people in the world. …show more content…
He born in Mexico, Joaquin Guzman Loera entered the drug trade as a teenager. By his teens, Guzman had been kicked out of the family home and was forced to make his own way. With little schooling in his background, he eventually found himself following his father’s path, growing marijuana for small amounts of cash. He founded the Sinaloa Cartel in 1989, over time building it into an immensely profitable global drug-trafficking operation. It’s believed Guzman has married at least three times and is the father of nine, possibly 13 children.
In April 2017 netflix released the first season of its crime drama, El Chapo, which depicts the rise and eventual downfall of the notorious drug kingpin, played by actor marco de la O. The second season was released in September in the same year. El chapo is an American crime television series, co-produced by Netflix and Univision, about the life of Joaquin El Chapo Guzman. The series premiered on April 23, 2017 at Univision before airing on Netflix worldwide. It starts Marco de la O as the titular
Recent arrests and the diminished opportunity to forward cocaine to U.S had left them with the necessity to embark in kidnappings, auto thefts, extortion, murders for hire, human smuggling, and other felonies not to mention that local demand for narcotics had increased recently. The Tijuana Cartel operations extents from the U.S Mexico border across Central America through the Pacific Route and receives support of one of most violent criminal organizations: Los
Manuel Noriega, the former dictator of the Central American country of Panama, rose to power through the art of destruction deception and detail. Manuel Noriega was able to profit and flourish as Panama’s new leader because of the Cold War environment. Due to the Cold War, its geographical positioning, and financial liberties, Noriega was able to manipulate all parties involved while making him very wealthy, powerful, a political asset, and finally a threat to the United States National Security.
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.
Recognized as one of the most fearless and violent cartels in all of Mexico, Los Zetas was brought forth by a need for personal security in the Gulf Cartel. This former hit man/security style operation, active since 1997, has since grown into its own ruthless and violent organization becoming the second most powerful cartel and easily the most feared in all of Mexico. Heavily trained and armed, members of Los Zetas are set apart from other cartels because of the level of brutality they are willing to administer to those who cross them, though they had initially hoped that by being more intimidating they would have to fight less. It is their command of the drug market, their lack of fear in using violent tactics, and the sheer level of brutality used by their members that sets this cartel apart from all others. It is their disregard for human life and their ties to the United States drug markets that cause Los Zetas to pose a significant danger to border communities across the southern border of the U.S.
...'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.
It was a time of civil war between the Columbian Conservative Party and the Columbian Liberal Party. However, vast numbers of people were killed on his command. His particular way of handling any authorities questioning his actions was to bribe them or to kill them, or ‘plata o plomo’, Colombian slang for ‘money or bullets’. Escobar was believed to have had Medellin drug lord Fabio Restrepo murdered in 1975, in order to take over full leadership of the Medellin Cartel.
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...
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
The Sinaloa Cartel was led by Joaquin Guzman who was a most-wanted Mexican drug trafficker worth a billion dollars. Under control of Joaquin, the Sinaloa Cartel became powerful and won the battle against the Juarez Cartel who was a former partner of the group. The battle, caused by want for more routes into the U.S. resulted in 12,000 deaths and led the group to employ gangs such as the Artist Assassins, Genre Nueva, and Los Mexicles to fight against the Juarez Cartel. The second half of the Guadalajara Cartel, the Tijuana Cartel was started in the 1990s and by the early 2000s became one of the “biggest and most violent criminal groups in Mexico,” as stated by the article, “The Five Most Famous Drug Cartels”.
Drug trafficking has been a massive concern between the borders of Mexico and the U.S. “since mid 1970s” (Wyler, 1). Drug trafficking is “knowingly being in possession, manufacturing, selling, purchasing, or delivering an illegal, controlled substance” (LaMance, 1). A dynamic relationship exists amongst Columbia, Mexico, and the U.S. the informal drug trafficking economy. This growing informal drug economy leads to many individuals creating a substantial living through this undercover market. These individual drug cartels monopolizing the trafficking market are a growing problem for the U.S economy and need to be located and controlled. If this trafficking continues, the U.S. informal economy will crush the growth of legal industries. The trafficking and abuse of drugs in the U.S. affects nearly all aspects of consumer life. Drug trafficking remains a growing issue and concern to the U.S. government. The U.S. border control must find a way to work with Mexico to overpower the individuals who contribute to the drug trafficking business. This market must be seized and these individuals must be stopped.
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.
Lacey, M. 2010. Many critics are now making comparisons between the Mexican drug cartels, like the one mentioned above, and legitimate corporations like Netflix, or Google. There are currently seven major Mexican drug cartels. Although, the cartels may all come from different backgrounds and have different approaches towards trafficking drugs, they all share a similar business style structure to their organizations and they all have well regulated rank and file systems. These drug cartels are adapting to the loss of their much-enjoyed freedom to move illegal drugs through Mexico and across the border into the United States.
B. Background: The Sinaloa Cartel has become one of the most predominate suppliers of illegal narcotics in the entire world. The United States alone has provided the cartel with a huge amount of business The Human Rights Watch 2013 report of drug cartel income, "Mexican drug cartels take in between $19 and $29 billion annually from U.S.
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