El Chapo

Mexican Soap Star Says She’s Been ‘persecuted’ For El Chapo Interview

... a woman. “If I was a man, this would never have happened. I get it, especially in Mexico — we’re very macho,” she said, adding that she worries about the security of her parents who still live in Mexico. Del Castillo admitted that the El Chapo meeting was “a little too risky,” but “I’ve done nothing wrong.”. “You can like it or not, but it’s nothing illegal,” she insisted. El Chapo, whose real name is Joaquin Guzman, escaped from a high-security Mexican prison with help from members of his deadly Sinaloa cartel in July 2015. At the time, he was serving a sentence for murder and narcotics trafficking. SEE ALSO. Sean Penn breaks silence on El Chapo interview. Using encrypted phones, El Chapo began contacting del Castillo, who was one of his favorite actresses. He had originally reached out to her through his lawyer years before. Then it surfaced that del Castillo helped arrange a meeting with legendary film actor Penn and Guzman in October 2015. Three months later, Penn documented the interview in an article published in Rolling Stone magazine. Mexican authorities and US-based Drug Enforcement Administration investigators traced the ...

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

... 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 countries to ask for a share of the proceeds if ...

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

... tiny Colima state, on Mexico's west coast, the Sinaloa cartel reportedly showed up in late 2015, partnering with remnants of another cartel to challenge the CJNG for control of the state's port and trafficking routes in the area. Since then, drug-related violence has pushed the body count in the state to new heights. Colima's homicide rate rose from just under 14 per 100,000 people in 2014 to over 23 per 100,000 in 2015. It then nearly quadrupled in 2016, hitting 81.55 per 100,000, nearly five times the national rate. Mexican government data. Both groups appear to be involved in violence 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 ...

Netflix, Univision Series 'el Chapo' Sets April Premier

... their series about the notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán. The series will debut in April of 2017 (although an exact date hasn’t been set yet), first on Univision and then on Netflix. Guzmán’s exploits are known around the world, and since true crime shows are more popular than ever before, his story seemed like a natural fit. El Chapo will showcase the drug lord’s story, how he rose to power, how he evaded police and escaped prison twice, and just how much of an impact he’s really had on the world. El Chapo has been accused of being the mastermind behind behind one of the world’s biggest drug trafficking operations. He evaded authorities for decades and even escaped from Mexican maximum security prisons twice. His last escape came in 2015, when it was discovered that he dug a mile long tunnel under his cell. Today, El Chapo is facing 17 drug trafficking and money laundering counts thanks to more than $14 billion in drug sales in the U. S. and Canada. Univision President and ...

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

... 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 Delgado’s claims, the Mail reported. “I cannot deny Silvia because Joaquin is not obliged to tell me all of the details of his conversations with her,” Rodriguez said. “With me, he did not complain of a sexual touch.”. Guzman is facing drug-trafficking and murder charges in multiple US jurisdictions. His appeals to prevent his extradition are pending. He first escaped prison in 2001 and spent years on the lam before his recapture in 2014. But a year after that, he escaped prison again through ...

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

... programs in impoverished rural areas, where he built soccer fields and water purification plants. Shortly after her husband’s capture in a predawn shootout with Mexican naval forces in January 2016, Emma became the star of a p.r. campaign orchestrated by El Chapo to draw attention to his deteriorating health and harsh imprisonment. Riley, who retired from the DEA this year, said he shadowed Emma on a handful of trips to Washington, where she pleaded El Chapo’s case before the Organization of American States and other humanitarian groups. On her most recent trip in October, Emma, accompanied by one of El Chapo’s lawyers, tried to make the case that her husband, the leader of a cartel responsible for the torture, kidnapping and murder of tens of thousands, was himself a victim of human rights abuses. “And after her meeting in Washington, she headed to the mall,” Riley said. “She’s a real party freak who has access to a lot of money.”. One of her favorite places to shop was the Nordstrom at the Pentagon City Mall, across the street from DEA headquarters. The Manhattan facility where El Chapo awaits trial ...

Inmates Vow To Bust El Chapo Out Of Prison

... drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has a new group of “hitmen” ready to bust him out of prison, according to a new report. Five tough-talking inmates shot a video inside a cell at the federal 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 ...

Forget El Chapo Guzman’s Escape, This Is The Most Audacious, Controversial Prison Break In The History Of Mexico

... middle of the prison yard, and the two dashed out of their cells and into the chopper. The prison break inspired the book The 10-Second Jailbreak. The following is an excerpt of a report detailing the incident, as reported by Time. “Most of the 136 guards at Mexico City’s Santa Maria Acatitla prison were watching a movie with the prisoners last week when a Bell helicopter, similar in color to the Mexican attorney general’s, suddenly clattered into the prison yard. Some of the guards on duty presented arms, supposing that the helicopter had brought an unexpected official visitor. “What they got was a different sort of surprise. As the chopper set down on the paving stones, two prisoners dashed out of Cell No. 10. The men were airborne in less than two minutes. One of the most enterprising jailbreaks in modern times had been accomplished without a shot being ...

Sinaloa Cartel Likely To Remain Strong Without 'el Chapo

... at Manhattan's Metropolitan Correctional Center. Joaquin Guzman, better known as El Chapo, was extradited to the U. S. just last week. This was after multiple prison escapes and recaptures in Mexico. El Chapo led the Sinaloa Cartel, Mexico's most successful and perhaps most violent drug empire. For a look 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 ...

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

... 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 ...

Master Of The Fake Escape

... 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 smuggled out in a laundry cart is movie-worthy, but according to the writer’s sources, it was more like a helicopter off the roof of that particular prison. The main focus of Winslow’s article is how the gradual legalization of marijuana in the U. S. forced Guzman to find a different anchor drug. His choice, explains Winslow, is a big reason opioid and heroin epidemics are now ravaging all sorts of remote corners of the U. S. Along with Matt Taibbi’s rollicking coverage of Donald Trump for Rolling Stone, which is separately nominated in the ASME-Ellies Columns and Commentary category, this Esquire article was one of favorite pieces of magazine writing published in 2016. Winslow has an ...