El Chapo

Let’s Make El Chapo Pay For President Trump’s Border Wall

... tab, and no one would have to pay more for guacamole. But while the El Chapo Memorial Wall is grand in theory, we admit there are a few holes in the foundation. For one thing, it's not clear that the cartel king, whose real name is Joaquín Guzmán Loera, actually has $14 billion worth of assets to seize. As with many legitimate business enterprises, much of El Chapo's revenue got chewed up in operation costs, and his real fortune might be more like $2 billion to $4 billion, according to Forbes. Then there's the fact that Uncle Sam isn't the only one who wants El Chapo's money. Some politicians in Mexico, which shipped the prisoner to New York last week, claim their country should receive his fortune to pay for the damage he has caused. According to Michael Zweiback , a former prosecutor who now works at the law firm Alston & Bird, U. S. forfeiture procedures allow other ...

Macho' Persecution Followed 'el Chapo' Meeting

... in Mexico — we’re very macho.”. Guzman was recaptured in January 2016 and is fighting extradition to the U. S., where he faces drug trafficking and other charges. Del Castillo said she still plans to make a movie about him once her legal dispute with Mexico’s government has ended. At roughly 52 years old, Lolita is the oldest orca living in captivity, and the only one in the U. S. to live outside a Sea World park. PETA and other animal rights groups have for years sought to have Lolita released into a protected marine pen in Puget Sound waters, where the female orca was legally captured in 1970. The Jan. 6 death of Tilikum, the Sea World orca that killed a trainer in 2010 and was later profiled in a documentary that helped sway popular opinion against keeping killer whales in captivity, makes Lolita’s plight more poignant, said Jared Goodman, PETA’s director of animal law. “She can have a happier ending than Tilikum did, dying ...

Inmates Vow To Bust El Chapo Out Of Prison

... lockdown in Taft, California, revealing their plans to help Guzman escape if he’s convicted of his American crimes and sent to their institution. “We are the hitmen who are going to take care of him,” one of the prisoners warned, the Los Angeles Times reported Thursday. “We want to tell the people this: If you bring ‘el señor’ here and if ‘el señor’ asks us to free him, we are going to take him out immediately,’” all five men pledge, speaking in Spanish. Guzman, 59, was extradited from Mexico to New York last week to face trial on drug-trafficking and other related charges. He was also charged with federal crimes in several other states, including California. Despite his status as the world’s biggest drug trafficker, he’s best known for his two Houdini-like prison escapes in Mexico. He was recaptured both times. During the three-minute video, the prisoners hid their faces behind black sunglasses, hats and bandannas inside the small, sparsely furnished cell. They took turns speaking to the camera in Spanish, ...

El Chapo’s Lawyers Demand He Gets His Day In Court

... the hassle of dealing with the notorious escapee, who twice sprung himself from Mexican prisons. “God forbid they transport him and there’s a plan in place by his people to break him free,” the law enforcement source said. “And they get into a shootout in broad daylight with El Chapo’s gunmen.”. SEE ALSO. Bringing El Chapo to court is a 'pain in the butt'. The letter also stated that the kingpin, “who has been held in solitary” for 23 hours a day at the Metropolitan Correction Center in Manhattan, could use the change in routine — and that appearing via video would cause “prejudicial” publicity. “His absence from the courtroom would necessarily lead to the public impression that Mr. Guzman is too dangerous to be brought to the courtroom,” the filing reads, adding he’s been a good boy so far on US soil. “Defense counsel is not aware of a single complaint since the United States authorities took custody of Mr. Guzman, suggesting he has been uncooperative or disruptive in any way,” the document says, noting the alleged murderer’s “respectful” appearance when he appeared in court on Jan. 20, after being extradited ...

El Chapo' Guzmán's Extradition Clears The Way For A New, More Vicious Round Of Cartel Fighting

... in Veracruz, on Mexico's Gulf coast. In that state, where the CJNG made a significant push several years ago, Vigil said, a panoply of cartels is vying for control over the state's large port, which facilitates the import of precursor chemicals for synthetic drugs, as well as over the smuggling routes that criss-cross the state. Recent violence in Quintana Roo , in Mexico's far southeast, has also cast light on another area of CJNG-Sinaloa competition. While two recent shootings don't appear to have involved Sinaloa and CJNG, they were the latest in a series of violent events that CJNG and Sinaloa have contributed to. As with the CJNG's advance on Tijuana, its designs on Quintana Roo, home to tourist hotspots of Cancun and Playa del Carmen, are likely part of its north-south expansion ...

El Chapo Claims He’s Harassed By Prison Guard Who ‘squeezes’ Him

... and constantly wakes him at night, according to his lawyer. El Chapo, whose real name is Joaquin Guzman, is “embarrassed” by the way he is being treated at the maximum-security prison in Mexico, attorney Silvia Delgado said. “There is a security guard that handles me instead of only touching me,” Guzman told her, the Daily Mail reported. He also said the groping during daily inspections is “more than abuse. They are handling me.”. The leader of the Sinaloa cartel also complained that he can’t get a full night’s sleep because the guard wakes him up every four hours as part of security measures at the prison. Delgado did not reveal the name of the guard, but it is believed he is on leave from the Ciudad Juarez prison, on the US-Mexico border south of El Paso, Texas, according to the Mail. Guzman’s other lawyer, Refugio Rodriguez, told the Mexican news site Zócalo that he had not discussed the sexual harassment with his client and could not refute ...

Master Of The Fake Escape

... publication would have been Don Winslow’s masterful summer feature “ El Chapo and the Secret History of Heroin.” With the extradition of El Chapo (a.k.a. Joaquín Guzmán Loera ) to the United States finally coming about this week, we couldn’t help but think back to Winslow’s take on the Mexican drug lord’s 2001 and 2015 prison escapes. The author calls the escapes “catnip for the media” and, essentially, as reported and disseminated, fake news. For the record, Guzmán did not [in 2015] go out that tunnel on a motorcycle. Steve Mc Queen escapes on motorcycles. My money says that Guzmán didn’t go into that tunnel at all; anyone who can afford to pay $50 million in bribes and finance the excavation of a mile-long tunnel can also afford not to use it. Gentle reader, the man is worth $1 billion. He was thinking about buying the Chelsea Football Club. He went out the front door. In other words, grand complicit fabrications have been constructed and put forth to both fuel the folklore and protect the bribed. Winslow in the article shares a similar smoke-screen for Guzman’s earlier 2001 escape. The notion of the drug lord being ...

Meet The Pageant Queen Who Became El Chapo’s Wife And His Top Defender

... for a while,” he told The Post in an exclusive interview. Before El Chapo was extradited to New York this month , the slippery head of the powerful Sinaloa Cartel was incarcerated at a maximum-security prison in Mexico. “They are punishing him for escaping in the past,” Emma told an interviewer for Telemundo, the Mexican TV network, last year. For her first TV appearance, Emma traded in her risqué wardrobe for a chaste, buttoned-up blouse and dark suit, with her long hair spilling over her breasts. “They [the guards] don’t let him sleep, and he has no privacy, not even to go to the bathroom,” said a somber, soft-spoken Emma, who has not yet visited her husband in his Manhattan lockup. El Chapo — Mexican slang for “shorty” — twice escaped maximum-security cells, most recently in July 2015, when he slithered out of one of Mexico’s most notorious prisons through an elaborate, mile-long tunnel. He eluded the ensuing manhunt for almost six months, rising to near-mythic status as the country’s most famous fugitive. Joaquín Guzmán Loera, also known as El Chapo, is transported to maximum-security prison in 2016. Getty Images. While his Sinaloa ...

Sinaloa Cartel Likely To Remain Strong Without 'el Chapo

... at the state of the cartel in El Chapo's absence we're joined now by Mike Vigil, who spent more than 30 years as a DEA agent. Hi there. MIKE VIGIL: Hi there. How are you. SHAPIRO: Good. So when El Chapo was imprisoned, how did that affect the Sinaloa cartel. VIGIL: It really didn't have an impact because the Sinaloa Cartel is very different than most cartels that operate in Mexico. Most cartels have a vertical structure, but the Sinaloa Cartel functions like a global corporation. It has a horizontal structure where they have subsidiaries throughout many parts of the world. And these subsidiaries are semi-autonomous. In other words, they have the ability to make decisions. And as a result of that, it's very difficult to dismantle a cartel like the Sinaloa Cartel. Secondly, they have great leadership. There's an individual by the name of Ismael El Mayo Zambada who has been running the Sinaloa Cartel during Chapo's incarceration. SHAPIRO: I understand he's very different from El Chapo. Tell us what he's like. VIGIL: He's an old-time capo. He's been around the drug world for many years. And then he is also very respected by the ...