...El Chapo Essay “No fue nada complicado. La primera vez que quisieron sacarme se equivocaron de celda, pero luego corrigieron y me fui.” These later famous words, translated into the English language “ It was not complicated at all. The first time they wanted to get me out they got the wrong cell, but later they corrected and I left.” The Sinaloa cartel chief Joaquin Guzman Loera aka “El Chapo” or “Shorty” told investigators of his second successful escape according to the Mexican magazine Proceso. Joaquin Guzman Loera was born into a poor family in the rural Mexican town of Badiraguato , Sinaloa Mexico. Sources and other media outlets disagree on the date of his birth, it is believed to be on April 4th 1957, while others report he was born on...
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...AUTNOMA DE NUEVO LEON FACULTAD DE CONTADURIA PUBLICA Y ADMINISTRACION Introduction to Law Research Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera was born in La Tuna, Badiraguato, Sinaloa, México on on April 4, is a former Mexican drug lord who headed the Sinaloa Cartel, a criminal organization named after the Mexican Pacific coast state of Sinaloa where it was formed. El Chapo was born into a poor rural family and lived six hours away from the closest city. Educated only to the 3rd grade and began selling marijuana with his father at a young age. At 15 he started selling it on his own and quickly made enough money to support his entire family. He built his mother a sprawling home in their rural hometown. She's a devout Catholic and "the only one who can change one of his decisions with a word." In 1993 he was arrested in Guatemala, but eight years later escaped from the maximum security prison in the Mexican state of Jalisco. In November 1995, he managed to win a transfer to the Puente Grande prison, near Guadalajara, where he remained as he faced trial for 10 different charges, including drug-trafficking and homicide. Then, on January 19, 2001, Guzmán managed to escape -- according to the Mexican government’s official record, by hiding in a dirty-laundry cart which guards eventually led to the gate of the penitentiary. But an ex-accomplice, Noé “El Gato” Hernández, has told journalists that El Chapo’s escape wasn’t nearly as daring as the Mexican Justice Department has made it seem, saying...
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...Jesus Olive CJ: 209 El Chapo Guzman and the Sinaloa Cartel Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera also known as El Chapo Guzman was born December 25, 1954. He is known to be Mexico`s most wanted man and participates in organized crime with several other underworld organizations. El Chapo is also a Mexican drug lord who is head of the Sinaloa Cartel. Joaquin Archivaldo Guzman has done many illegal and extreme things to get where he is now. As a child Joaquin came from a very poor family and had to do something for a living, which to begin was selling oranges. Growing up he began to planting corn and pot, and later moved up to “taking trucks with false floors filled with pot to the United States.” As time went by El Chapo progressed with his making of illegal money by finding new ways to get drug transported to the United States. Joaquin even took it to the extremes of making underground tunnels and concealing drugs in cans of food, airplanes, and even boats headed for the United States. The success of many of his transportation is what made him have the money he now possesses. Several years Joaquin shared the drug trade with other families in the federation. At first it was the Beltran Leyva Cartel which was in charge of the trafficking of drugs in Monterrey. These drug lords like Joaquin himself bought of many of the police officers in the area so that they would not be bothered, and would be able to easily move drugs around the country. Like many other drug lords this is a common practice...
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...Leonardo V. Joaquin Guzman Loera "El Chapo" Joaquin Archivaldo Guzman Loera also known as the "Biggest Drug Lord" or "El Chapo Guzman", was born either on December twenty fifth nineteen ninety seven or April fourth nineteen ninety seven. He is mostly famous of the drugs and escapes he has had in his life. He runs Cocaine, Heroin, Marijuanna, and Methamphetamine. His biggest infuence was Pablo Escobar. Chapo guzman was first captured in ninety three for murder and drug trafficking. He was charged and sentenced to twenty years in prison. Meanwhile, in prison he bribed workers so he can continue his lifestyle behind bars, which is selling marijuanna, smuggling cocaine, and pills etc. Then it came down to two thousand and one...
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...Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera mostly known as “El Chapo” (The Shorty) is one of the most wanted Mexican drug lord in the world . He is head of the dangerous Cartel de Sinaloa and is ranked as the top 10th richest man in Mexico. He has got married at least 3 times and is now currently married to Emma Coronel Aispuro since 2007. El Chapo has 13 children but one of his sons got killed on May 8, 2008 in a parking-lot shootout. Guzman official date of birth is contested, it is known to be on December 25, 1954 or April 4, 1957. His birthplace is the rural community of La Tuna, Badiraguato, Sinaloa, Mexico. The childhood of El Chapo was shaped by his family poverty and an abusive father who was an opium farmer in the drug trade. By...
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...Alleged drug lord, from Texas "La Barbie" Valdez was extradited to the United States from Mexico, U.S. on Wednesday. Valdez, who got his nickname due to his fair complexion, was one of 13 defendants wanted for violent crimes and drug trafficking-related offenses to be handed over to U.S. Marshals. He headed the Beltran Leyva cartel until being arrested in August 2010. The 13 defendants were wanted on an many charges, including the murders of a U.S. Consulate employee, other violent crimes and drug-trafficking related crimes. Valdez and another defendant, Carlos Montemayor, are charged in the Georgia with conspiring to distribute cocaine and launder money on June 11, 2010. Valdez also faces narcotics-related charges in Louisiana. Valdez became...
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...Mexican Drug Cartels Abstract Mexico has long been used as a transshipment point for narcotics and contraband between Latin America and United States markets. Over time, various organizations, also known as “Cartels” have become involved in the distribution, as well as transportation, of illegal drugs and firearms. The fight for power between these known cartels has led to many arrests and deaths of cartel leaders as well as their rivals. While many factors have contributed to the escalating violence, security analysts in Mexico City trace the rising scourge to the longtime implicit arrangement between narcotics traffickers and governments controlled by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which lost its grip on political power in the late 1980s. There was a decrease in the fighting during the late 1990s but the violence steadily worsened after the 2000s. Origin Birth of all Mexican drug cartels is traced to former Mexican Judicial Federal Police agent Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, also known as “The Godfather”. He founded the Guadalajara Cartel in 1980. He started off by smuggling marijuana and opium into the United States and was the first Mexican drug chief to link up with Colombia’s cocaine cartels, which were run by Pablo Escobar. At the time Felix Gallardo was considered the lord of all Mexican drug smugglers and was in charge of all operations; there was just him, his people, and the politicians who sold him protection. In 1985 the Guadalajara...
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...Introduction: Drug trafficking is one of the most serious issues the world faces, drug trafficking is so popular because it can be very profitable for violent and illegal organizations called cartels. There has been a serious war in Mexico against drug trafficking organizations for more than a decade with little success. Over the last ten years, the US government has helped with more than $2 billion dollars in financing intelligence resources to help Mexico's anti-drug traffick efforts, and even with the war against drugs, problems seem to continue arising. Many cartels in search for better-distributing options tend to use methods such as murders, kidnappings, and other crimes to expand their territory, which makes entire states live in terror....
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...Research method .................................................................................................. 3 2.2. Documentation of research .................................................................................... 3 2.3. Discussion of the source material .......................................................................... 4 2.4. Summaries ............................................................................................................ 5 2.4.1. 2.4.2. 2.4.3. The Mexican Economy After the Global Financial Crisis ............................................. 5 Inside Mexico’s Drug War ............................................................................................ 5 Drug War - Confronting a shared threat ....................................................................... 7 3. Discussion of the literature on the Drug War in Mexico ........................................ 8 3.1. Characterisation of the topic in relation to the subject ............................................ 8 3.2. Comprehensive discussion...
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...Coronel elected to leave the entry for “Father” on the birth certificates blank, it was not because of any dispute over patrimony. More likely, she was just skittish about the fact that her husband, Joaquín Guzmán, is the C.E.O. of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, a man the Treasury Department recently described as the world’s most powerful drug trafficker. Guzmán’s organization is responsible for as much as half of the illegal narcotics imported into the United States from Mexico each year; he may well be the most-wanted criminal in this post-Bin Laden world. But his bride is a U.S. citizen with no charges against her. So authorities could only watch as she bundled up her daughters and slipped back across the border to introduce them to their dad. Known as El Chapo for his short, stocky frame, Guzmán is 55, which in narco-years is about 150. He is a quasi-mythical figure in Mexico, the subject of countless ballads, who has outlived enemies and accomplices alike, defying the implicit bargain of a life in the drug trade: that careers are glittering but brief and always terminate in prison or the grave. When Pablo Escobar was Chapo’s age, he had been dead for more than a decade. In fact, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration, Chapo sells more drugs today than Escobar did at the height of his career. To some extent, this success is easily...
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...A Flag in Disguise It is estimated that around 60,000 people have deceased in the Mexican drug war since 2006-2012(CNN). This is due largely to the steady flow of illicit narcotics in to the United States, the cache of weapons and ammunition that the United States is supplying Mexico, as well as the corruption on both sides of the border. The Mexican Drug War initially began about 2006 during the Felipe Calderon administration, with a short, but gruesome history to include death, drugs, weapons, trafficking and corruption. Police corruption often categorized as any form of misconduct, inappropriate or illegal action resulting in goods or favors exchanged. The amount of money that is involved in drug trade embellishes the corruption making...
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...Life Inside of the Mexican Cartel Christian Thomasson American Public University System Life Inside of the Mexican Cartel The Mexican Drug War has been an ongoing armed conflict that is taking place among cartels that are feuding with one another for control of a specific region or regions. With the Mexican government seeking ways to combat the drug trafficking, more violence and rage is erupting among these groups who continue to fight for turf. Although United States military forces have attempted to intervene, new technology and communication devices gives these groups an edge on law enforcement. They are now able to communicate with their substations and various groups throughout the U.S. while their traffic goes undetected. This student will be discussing the various groups, their activities, and their communication tactics. Sinaloa Cartel The Sinaloa Cartel often described as the largest and most powerful drug trafficking organization in the Western Hemisphere, is an alliance of some of Mexico’s top capos (McDermott et. al, 2011). The members of the coalition have been known to operate in concert to protect themselves, they also rely on high connections and corrupt law enforcement to keep the upper hand against rivals or those that attempt to infiltrate their operations. The state of Sinaloa has been named the center for contraband in Mexico, as well as the home for marijuana and poppy cultivation (McDermott...
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...he New Kind and its Culture ''No Country for Old Men'' (2005), writer by Cormac McCarthy is a police story set on the border between Mexico and the United States. It is the story of Llewelyn Moss, a veteran of the Vietnam War that finds, in the scene of a bloody massacre in the desert, a briefcase with several million dollars and decides to keep them. Soon, a mysterious assassin, Anton Chigurh, and veteran sheriff Tom Bell, along with drug traffickers and other criminals in a violent and savage persecution will be behind him . As in almost all the work of McCarthy, the issue here is the line between good and evil, and the natural tendency of man toward this last. The pure evil is represented by Chigurh, a ruthless murderer who warns Moss that...
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...pizza, Navy Pier, Portillos, and Willis Tower. Chicago residents live and work in some of the most affluent, wealthy, and glamorous neighborhoods like The Gold Coast and River North. Over the last couple of years though, the spotlight has been shifted from all of Chicago’s wonderful things to its poverty stricken neighborhoods, rising crime rate, murders, and drug problems. All of these things can be linked to what many consider Chicago’s biggest problem, street gangs. But today the city seems to be far more segregated and full of poverty in neighborhoods that are home to minorities. Many adults turn to the streets to make a living and children see their elders and in return do the same. These same poor neighborhoods have a failing public education system for the youth along with a bad relationship with police. According to the Chicago Crime Commission, “a 2012 Chicago Police Department gang audit found there are more than 600 gang factions in the city, with a minimum combined membership of 70,000” (cbsnews.com). With the large number of gang members in the city there is a lot of fighting going on over turf for control of drug distribution. This is mainly a problem occurring in minority communities all throughout Chicago. “201 of the 259 homicide victims were African-American” (chicagotribune.com). While blacks make up about 33 percent of the city’s population, they accounted for nearly 78 percent of the homicide victims through the first sic months of 2012. Gangs are nothing really...
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...The Mexican Drug War: Is It Their War or Ours? A common news headline in any newspaper or on any news channel these days mentions the “Mexican drug war”. It has become common along the U. S./Mexico border to hear people talking about it at schools, work places and in their own neighborhoods - coworkers, classmates and neighbors whom are involved in some way or know someone that is. Violence is seen and heard of on the U.S. side of the border quite frequently, which raises the questions, is it their war or ours? This war may have started on Mexican soil; however, it is, most definitely, the United States’ war as well. How did this all begin? What does the U.S. have to do with it? “For years, Mexico’s domestic supply of psychoactive...
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