{UAH} facts about Joaquín Guzmán's life, better known as "El Chapo
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From money to murder and everything in between, these are the most outrageous facts about Joaquín Guzmán's life, better known as "El Chapo." If you were to lay out the facts of Joaquín Guzmán's life, you'd think it was ripped from the pages of a Hollywood movie script: assassination attempts, worldwide domination of the illegal drug trade, daring prison escapes, and encounters with movie stars deep in the jungle. The fact is that Joaquín Guzmán's life has been far from ordinary, even by drug lord standards.
Guzmán was born in Sinaloa and in a poor farming family. He endured physical abuse at the hands of his father, and also entered the drug trade through his father, helping him grow marijuana for local dealers during his early adulthood. Guzmán began working with Héctor Luis Palma Salazar by the late 1970s, one of the nation's rising drug lords. He helped Salazar map routes to move drugs through Sinaloa and into the United States.
It was after Gallardo's (his last boss') murder in the mid-1980s that Guzmán truly stepped up to the big leagues of international drug-trafficking and founded the notorious Sinaloa cartel. Other famous drug lords like Escober, smuggled the substance by air and sea but El chapo introduced a new route, underground tunnels! He pioneered the use of distribution cells and long-range tunnels near borders, which enabled him to export more drugs to the United States than any other trafficker in history. It wasn't long before Joaquín Guzmán was making a name for himself as one of the country's most powerful drug dealers, and putting himself on the radar of both Mexican and U.S. law enforcement agencies in the process.
Guzmán's leadership of the cartel also brought immense wealth and power; Forbes ranked him as one of the most powerful people in the world between 2009 and 2013, while the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) estimated that he matched the influence and wealth of Pablo Escobar.
Guzmán was first captured in 1993 in Guatemala and was extradited and sentenced to 20 years in prison in Mexico for murder and drug trafficking. He bribed prison guards and escaped from a federal maximum-security prison in 2001. His status as a fugitive resulted in an $8.8 million combined reward from Mexico and the U.S. for information leading to his capture, and he was arrested in Mexico in 2014. He escaped prior to formal sentencing in 2015, through a tunnel under his jail cell. Mexican authorities recaptured him following a shoot-out in 2016 and extradited him to the U.S. a year later. In 2019, he was found guilty of a number of criminal charges related to his leadership of the Sinaloa Cartel, and was sentenced to life in prison.
Guzmán is currently held at ADX Florence, said to be the most secure prison in the federal penitentiary system, in Colorado.
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-- Guzmán was born in Sinaloa and in a poor farming family. He endured physical abuse at the hands of his father, and also entered the drug trade through his father, helping him grow marijuana for local dealers during his early adulthood. Guzmán began working with Héctor Luis Palma Salazar by the late 1970s, one of the nation's rising drug lords. He helped Salazar map routes to move drugs through Sinaloa and into the United States.
It was after Gallardo's (his last boss') murder in the mid-1980s that Guzmán truly stepped up to the big leagues of international drug-trafficking and founded the notorious Sinaloa cartel. Other famous drug lords like Escober, smuggled the substance by air and sea but El chapo introduced a new route, underground tunnels! He pioneered the use of distribution cells and long-range tunnels near borders, which enabled him to export more drugs to the United States than any other trafficker in history. It wasn't long before Joaquín Guzmán was making a name for himself as one of the country's most powerful drug dealers, and putting himself on the radar of both Mexican and U.S. law enforcement agencies in the process.
Guzmán's leadership of the cartel also brought immense wealth and power; Forbes ranked him as one of the most powerful people in the world between 2009 and 2013, while the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) estimated that he matched the influence and wealth of Pablo Escobar.
Guzmán was first captured in 1993 in Guatemala and was extradited and sentenced to 20 years in prison in Mexico for murder and drug trafficking. He bribed prison guards and escaped from a federal maximum-security prison in 2001. His status as a fugitive resulted in an $8.8 million combined reward from Mexico and the U.S. for information leading to his capture, and he was arrested in Mexico in 2014. He escaped prior to formal sentencing in 2015, through a tunnel under his jail cell. Mexican authorities recaptured him following a shoot-out in 2016 and extradited him to the U.S. a year later. In 2019, he was found guilty of a number of criminal charges related to his leadership of the Sinaloa Cartel, and was sentenced to life in prison.
Guzmán is currently held at ADX Florence, said to be the most secure prison in the federal penitentiary system, in Colorado.
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