El Chapo's escape: No light at the end of his tunnel
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The world's biggest drug lord strolls out of a maximum-security prison.
Twice.
Forget all the caricatures you have about Mexican drug kingpins. Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman Loera, boss of the dominant Sinaloa Cartel, is a brilliant, ruthless billionaire businessman whose business happens to be drugs. He's a survivor -- he came up the hard way in the 1980s as a gunman for Federacion founder Miguel Angel Gallardo, he survived the Drug Enforcement Administration onslaught after its agent Enrique Camarena was murdered, he endured a bloody war against his rivals in Tijuana, and he came out of a brutal Mexican prison to become the most powerful drug lord in history.… Seguir leyendo »