Since the 1980s, Joaquín Guzmán, alias “El Chapo” as the most feared drug kingpin in the world. Now he is in New York before the court. The Prosecutor’s office hopes to be able to him finally behind bars.
A fallen drug kingpin El Chapo on his arrival in New York in January 2017
El Chapo – the Small. The nickname of the legendary Mexican Ex-drug boss, Joaquín Guzmán sounds almost cute, is due to the 1,64 Meter, which measures the 61-Year-old. The opposite of cute, but his story was just full of superlatives. Since today is El is made Chapo in New York in the process.
Him a life threatening long prison sentence for crimes that could come from the fiction of a world-class Cinema blockbuster. The Prosecutor’s office in Manhattan will now have to prove that you are a brutal reality: 300,000 pages of evidence are preparing to bring El Chapo, among other things, for 33 murders and the smuggling of more than 150 tons of cocaine in the United States behind bars. And this time for good. After all, Guzman has not been in the past, once for his spectacular escapes from prisons in the headlines.
The escort of El Chapo, who chauffeured him in Manhattan, is heavily armed
His rise began in the 1980s. At the time, he did it with a lot of skill, but also with brutal means, to the top of the smuggling business of Colombian cocaine that he brought from Mexico to the United States. In the midst of various cartels El Chapo made a name for himself. It didn’t take long, and the Colombians sell their goods directly to the new drug boss. El Chapos people in pits then also one of the first Tunnel from Mexico to the United States, in order to pilot the hot goods to the authorities on both sides of the border in the past. Some of these Narco-Tunnel (Spanish for “Dealer”) were extremely well-built, primitive, and others with lamps, fans, or even rails. In the past 25 years, the authorities have discovered about 180 of these smuggling buildings.
First Wanted In 1993
In 1993, Mexico, El Chapo, wanted to lay for the first Time the craft: The government wrote to Guzmán to the investigation, he fled to Guatemala. A little later, the authorities caught him but there, and a court in Mexico sentenced him to 20 years in prison. But he didn’t last long in his cell: in 2001, fled El Chapo namely, for the first Time. In a Laundry truck, he escaped the prison in Puente Grande.
Protected by his private army, Guzmán hid in his native Sinaloa. But instead of enjoying his regained freedom, he devoted himself again to his business and expanded it to unimaginable size. As reported
Sean Penn met with El Chapo in the year 2015 for an Interview
Actor Sean Penn, who met Guzman in 2015 to a controversial Interview, this thriving illegal trade of goods. El Chapo had bragged: “I was trying to deliver more Heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine, and marijuana than anyone else in the world. I have boats, a fleet of U -, aircraft, trucks and ships.”
This global fleet brought El Chapo a fortune in the billions and the respect of his countrymen. Many Mexicans venerate El Chapo, even if he is for the war on drugs is partly responsible, which gives the country so many problems. But he also has something that many Mexicans want: money and Power.
Through a Tunnel to freedom
13 years after his first escape, Guzmán was captured in Mexico but again. This time, he came in a high-security prison. But also the increased security measures didn’t help: Nearly a year later, he escaped back to his cell, thanks to a tried-and-tested Means of. By a nearly 1.5-Kilometer-long Tunnel that started in one of the prison showers, flea Guzmán must – in the prison for help from the most inner circles of the prison had to be able to the security arrangements deal.
2016 El Chapo was arrested in Mexico
In 2016, shortly after the Meeting with Sean Penn, managed by the Mexican police, but again the access to El Chapo. In January 2017, he was transferred to the United States: Round-the-clock, he is since then in solitary confinement in a cell without a window. Only an hour a day he is allowed to use a home trainer or on television.
Therefore, Guzman complains about the conditions of detention in New York, depression and hallucinations. Only his lawyers and his two seven year old twin daughters are allowed to visit him. The former drug boss seems to be on the hard floor of the prison reality ended up crashed.
The process under high safety precautions
Now, to be made final in the process, even though this was supposed to start already in September. At the time, argued El Chapos defenders, need more time for the evaluation of the evidence. Similar arguments no longer moved but now.
Now be determined, to the exclusion of the Public first of the twelve jurors. In four months you have to make a judgement – however, they remain on statement of the judge anonymously. To the danger that something happens, given the brutality of the accused. The 16 witnesses in order to testify, are under special protection. El Chapos last judge in Mexico was shot in 2016, on the open road while Jogging.