El Chapo

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

... “squeezes and bothers” 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 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,” ...

Master Of The Fake Escape

... 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 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 ...

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

... Assuming the wall is a good idea in the first place (a dubious proposition), Trump could drop his request for Mexico to pay for it, and instead ask a single Mexican citizen to foot the bill: drug lord El Chapo. Think about it. The deposed narco, who is cooling his heels in a New York prison cell, must forfeit $14 billion in drug-related assets, according to the Justice Department, which filed charges last week. Meanwhile, House Speaker Paul Ryan says President Trump's border wall will cost between $12 billion and $15 billion. That's a near perfect offset, and a win-win for America. Donald Trump could make good on his promise to make Mexico pick up the 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 ...

Sinaloa Cartel Likely To Remain Strong Without 'el Chapo

... true. VIGIL: No. That's complete nonsense. They can circumvent that wall using medieval technology, you know, catapults. You know, they have these aircraft that look like flying lawnmowers. They call them ultralights. They can carry maybe 300 pounds of marijuana or cocaine or methamphetamine. And then through the use of tunnels - they can easily build a very nice tunnel for a million dollars, and the first load that they run through there will pay for that tunnel. SHAPIRO: That's Mike Vigil, the former chief of international operations for the Drug Enforcement Administration, also author of the novel "Metal Coffins: The Blood Alliance Cartel." Thanks for joining us. VIGIL: Thank you so much. Copyright © 2017 NPR. All rights reserved. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at __link__ for further information. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by Verb 8 tm, Inc. , an NPR contractor, and produced using a proprietary transcription ...

Why Drug Lord El Chapo's Extradition Sent U.s. Officials Scrambling

... What Kind of Penalties Might He Face. If convicted, Guzman Loera, who is 59, faces a maximum sentence of life in prison. Justice Department officials said the US agreed not to seek the death penalty as part of the negotiations with the Mexican government to secure his extradition. Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is escorted by soldiers during a presentation in Mexico City, Jan. 8, 2016. On Jan. 19, 2017, Mexican government officials announced that El Chapo would be extradited to the United States. Tomas Bravo / Reuters. "Guzman's story is not one of a do-gooder or a Robin Hood or even one of a famous escape artist," said Robert Capers, Brooklyn's US Attorney. "Guzman's destructive and murderous rise as an international narcotics trafficker is akin to a small cancerous tumor that metastasized and grew into a full-blown scourge ...

Netflix, Univision Series 'el Chapo' Sets April Premier

... 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 Chief Content Officer Camila Jiménez Villa said the series would “pull back the curtain on one of the most ...

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

... Guzmán out of the way, a new round of drug-related violence seems likely. The Jalisco New Generation cartel , a relatively new cartel that blossomed from a former Sinaloa cartel faction and has never shied from violence during its rapid expansion, seems likely to seize on the moment. Over the last two years, the CJNG, its initials in Spanish, has challenged the Sinaloa cartel in parts of Mexico, including in Tijuana , the crown jewel in Mexico's drug-trafficking businesses. The Sinaloa cartel "is still strong," Mike Vigil, the former chief of international operations for the US Drug Enforcement Administration, told Business Insider in the days after Guzmán's extradition, and the cartel's horizontal structure, which has allowed it to endure personnel changes, may also help it survive in the near term. Nemesio Oseguera, aka "El Mencho," the leader of the Jalisco New Generation cartel. Screenshot. "But I think that Nemesio Oseguera, 'El Mencho,' from the New Generation ...

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

... Emma Coronel Aispuro Getty Images. More On. Bringing El Chapo to court is a 'pain in the butt'. She’s a voluptuous, raven-haired stunner with perfect skin and pouty lips. A former teenage beauty queen who was born in California, she is fond of racy bikinis and tight jeans. At 27, Emma Coronel Aispuro is also a devoted mother to twin girls. And she is also the faithful wife of Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the world’s most notorious drug trafficker, better known as “El Chapo.”. As the 62-year-old drug lord languishes in a holding cell at the Manhattan Detention Center, awaiting trial on several counts of murder and drug trafficking, Emma took to social media this month to profess her undying devotion and love for her husband, who is a well-known philanderer and father to 19 children with at least six other women. On Jan. 21, two days after he arrived in New York, Emma tweeted in Spanish, ...

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

... another prison break in Mexico rivals El Chapo Guzman’s in sheer audacity, and it was that of Joel David Kaplan, an American businessman. He and Carlos Antonio Contreras Castro, a Venezuelan counterfeiter, undertook one of the most uncanny prison breaks in the country’s history by using a helicopter painted with colors similar to those used by the Mexican Attorney General’s office. This was on August 19, 1971. More pics of #El Chapo #breakout from #mexicanprison. No tengo confianza en este pais. Muchas drogas mucho corrupcion __link__/8 I 6 HWf 4 WOm. — virgil_hilts (@Clamantis D) July 14, 2015. The helicopter, which had been bought for the sole purpose of the break out, landed in the middle of the prison yard, and the two dashed out of their cells and into the chopper. The prison break ...

Inmates Vow To Bust El Chapo Out Of Prison

... to court is a 'pain in the butt'. Notorious Mexican 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 ...