Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is now in prison.
Historically, Mexican prisons have had a difficult time keeping these folks incarcerated.
Others, with this much influence, in prison lacked no creature comforts. And he is (was) a huge part of the drug world.
I don’t see much significance to this. He could still direct operations in prison.
Although, he is wanted in the USA, I don’t see extradition as a possibility.
If he doesn’t escape, how do you think this will pan out?
I read about this on Reddit. It is good he got captured but yeah he won’t stay in jail for a long time, and even if he does, he can still “work” from prision.
I am from Brazil and I know what it’s like. Prisioners here rule the prisions. It can’t be very different in Mexico
Per the Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago DEA head, Jack Riley, has said his office is going to seek extradition of El Chapo. He escaped last time while extradition proceedings were ongoing. Given the US was able to get Osiel Cardenas, head of the Gulf Cartel, extradited (and later sentenced to 25 years jn prison), I don’t think El Chapo will be staying in Mexico long. Not if the authorities want to keep him anyway.
When the big bosses are captured, doesn’t that just lead to the decentralization of the cartels? Is having a bunch of little gangs any better than having one big gang?
(I’m a statist: I want there to be only one gang, and for it to be really, really big and powerful: the legitimate government.)
He escaped through an “underground tunnel.” (Much more effective than open-air tunnels.) I wonder if he’ll flee to the coast of Maine?
After finding a cactus that has no earthly business in a field in Michoacán.
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In a way, all of us has an El Chapo to face. For some, shyness might be their El Chapo. For others, a lack of education might be their El Chapo.
Open air tunnels are so much easier to build, though.
This made me chuckle.
Usually incarceration does very little to impede the operations of a well-organized gang. In most cases, phone calls “home” and visits from “family” allow the Big Man to communicate with his lieutenants.
In others, they just get more creative; Aryan Brotherhood leader Barry Mills communicated with his underlings using a sort of invisible ink derived from urine, which he used to order the murder of a rival gang leader.
Our new friend, hulang, would love to hear about this.
Nah. Mills wasn’t dead yet. Or scared (presumably). Or female.
A mile long, lighted, ventilated tunnel, with a motorcycle modified to run on a track. I doubt he did it on his own.
Actually, I’m pretty interested in learning any details that come out on the construction of this thing. Did they work from both ends? Did they start at the abandoned house and somehow drive it directly to his cell? Did they start from his end and corrupt prison guards delivered a motorcycle to his cell?
Yes they started from the abandoned house and drove it directly to his cell. If he had been working on it there would have been one non-corrupt official who would have noticed it.
Every time I have seen a headline about this guy, I read it as “El Cheapo”. Makes it hard to take him seriously, although I understand he’s a bad dude.
If the US catches him, instead of sending him back to Mexico, I say send him to Seattle so the SR 99 tunnel can finally be done right.
How many places on the Internet give you the opportunity to pick up Stephen King and Three Amigos shoutouts in the same thread?
Now there’s an idea! 
On the run again! One can only wonder how many people he’s in connection with to help him escape. Imagine having your own “security forces”. 