Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Behind the fall of El Chapo, Mexico's most notorious druglord

In 2005, the notorious leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel, Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán Loera, swept into a restaurant in the US-Mexico border town of Nuevo Laredo with a slew of armed henchmen. They locked the doors of the restaurant so no one could enter or exit. The henchmen warned the 40 or so diners against using their cellphones, or leaving before Chapo finished his dinner. When the drug lord was done eating, he picked up everyone’s tab and left without further incident. But the message was clear: as an FBI agent later told the Houston Chronicle , "He was there to prove a point ... to let people know he's in town," and that he was in control of a strategically important drug-trafficking territory.


These are not the actions of a man...


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