Today in History- most-wanted drug kingpin is captured in Mexico
On this day in 2014, one of the world’s most-wanted criminals, Joaquin
“El Chapo” (“Shorty”) Guzman Loera, head of the Sinaloa cartel, the
world’s biggest drug trafficking organization, is arrested in a joint
U.S.-Mexican operation in Mazatlán, Mexico,
after outrunning law enforcement for more than a decade. Guzman had
been the target of an international hunt since 2001, when he escaped
from a Mexican prison where he was serving a 20-year sentence. During
his years on the lam, Guzman’s elusiveness was celebrated in
“narcocorridos,” Mexican ballads glorifying the drug trade, while in
such places as Chicago, where his cartel supplied the majority of the narcotics sold in the city, he was declared Public Enemy No. 1.
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