Documentary Of Joaquín Guzman aka “El Chapo” | The World's Most Wanted Drug Lord!

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Like, Comment, & Subscribe if you like the video. New Videos weekly Stay Tuned!! Documentary Of Joaquín Guzman aka “El Chapo” | The World's Most Wanted Drug Lord! “El Chapo” Guzmán, the notorious Mexican drug lord, was captured last week after his escape from prison last year. Documentary film-maker Angus Macqueen spent months tracking Guzmán for a 2014 documentary. Here, he describes his mountain community, and how his control of the Sinaloa cartel crumbled as the state reacted to his audacious escape Caught again. That makes it three times that the Mexican drug kingpin El Chapo has been captured. The last two followed his fabled escapes from Mexico’s top security prisons. The first, improbably, in a laundry basket in 2001. The second caught on prison cameras of him calmly disappearing into a tunnel under the shower in his cell in 2015. We can only imagine what followed: the motorbike ride down a mile-long tunnel to freedom, purportedly smashing the overhead lighting with a stick as he went. The theatre was magnificent, but both escapes were undoubtedly carried out in collusion with very senior figures right at the top of the Mexican government, people controlled by El Chapo’s Sinaloa cartel. After his escape last summer, 87% of Mexicans believed that even the president must have known something. Friday felt different. President Enrique Peña Nieto cannot again afford the humiliation he faced last summer after the tunnel escape. For a year, his attorney general had refused any suggestion that El Chapo would be transferred to the Americans, saying that it might happen when he had served his time – more than 400 years – for his crimes in Mexico. Months later El Chapo had disappeared. The few images of El Chapo that have been released of his capture suggest he knows this time that everything is different. He looks a broken man, showing little of the calm defiance of previous occasions. He must genuinely fear that the Mexican government will swallow its pride this time and extradite him. There will be many on both sides of the US-Mexican border fearing the information that El Chapo might offer up to the justice department to make life in a US prison a little more comfortable. The evidence on the ground in El Chapo’s home turf of Sinaloa suggests that the events of the past months do spell the end for him and his family. Four years ago, my colleague Guillermo Galdos and I set out to find Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, who was then touted as one of the most wanted men in the world. For 12 years, both the Mexican and US authorities claimed they had been unable to find him since his escape from the maximum security prison of Puente Grande in Mexico in 2001. The US Drug Enforcement Administration claimed it was conducting the biggest manhunt in Mexican history. We had watched how, during his first period in prison and, in the decade after his escape, his Sinaloa cartel had built up a drugs empire that was truly global, operating from the US to Europe to the Far East. His people established control over much of the supply of cocaine, heroin, marijuana and methamphetamine to North America. In Chicago, he was recorded establishing the wholesale price of kilos of heroin. The city awarded him the rare accolade of naming him “Public Enemy No 1”, his only predecessor being Al Capone. Hidden away in the mountains of Sinaloa but absolutely plugged into the history and mythology of crime gangs, El Chapo no doubt felt a flush of pride. By 2012 his cartel was far bigger than Colombian Pablo Escobar’s, in both size and scope. Forbes had him on its list of the richest and most powerful people on Earth. If El Chapo remains in a Mexican prison, many will continue to believe he is running everything from his cell. But the cartel was always so much bigger than the one man. He was just the figurehead. There are a whole list of others already lined up to pick up the reins, to seize their slice of the lucrative business. Some names we already know, others will be seeing their chance. The battle to succeed will no doubt produce the next set of bodies on the streets. Again, this is all the show of the war on drugs. The only true barometer of the impact of El Chapo’s imprisonment is the price of drugs on the streets. There may be a spike for a day or two but that has little to do with supply, which will no doubt continue as normal. Just as the death of Escobar did little more than change the supply routes, so it will be with the renewed capture of El Chapo Guzmán.