How arrogant are drug dealers in Mexico? You may not know that the militants of the Mexican drug lords group dared to openly go to war with the government and actually won the war.
The Mexican police shocked the world by handing over 43 students protesting against the drug demonstrations to drug dealers for execution. In the past decade, hundreds of mexican drug mayors, thousands of anti-drug policemen have been killed, and hundreds of undercover gangsters have been assassinated.
It is in such a sinful paradise, everywhere in the land of drug dealers, there is a Mexican drug lord, the godfather of the drug lord nicknamed "Dwarf": Joaquin Guzman.
He was the biggest drug trafficker to the United States, and the U.S. Treasury recognized him as the world's number one drug lord, and it was he who built the Sinaloa cartel, which the CIA called "the world's largest drug trafficking interest."
He is the true king of drug lords, with all the power, and the people believe that he is the "other president" of Mexico, who has been arrested three times and escaped from prison twice.
So how did he go from a semi-illiterate rural doll to the boss of the world's largest drug cartel in 48 countries in 30 years?
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Joaquin Guzman was born in Sinaloa, the drug country of Badiraguato, Mexico, from a poor family, and like many local farmers, he grew up growing marijuana and poppies for a living.
Family difficulties and a lack of local educational resources led him to drop out of school and return home to help make ends meet in the third grade, considering him half illiterate. The poor life made him deeply resentful, and he vowed to run out of the mountains and go to the big city to "get ahead.".
Opportunities were always given to people with "dreams", and when he grew up, Razman was introduced by his fellow villagers to the disciples of Felix Gallado, the godfather of the Mexican gang at that time, and began to engage in drug trafficking.
Born as a policeman, Galado could not resist the temptation of money to join the underworld, and annexed the big and small drug dealers in Sinaloa and created the famous drug cartel "Federation".
Uncultured and capitalless, Razman could only start as a minion in the Guadalajara crime syndicate, but he was soon appreciated and supported by Galado.
Due to his short stature, Guzman was not less ridiculed in the gang, so Guzman's method was his fierce style.
But whenever he was late or dared to be shoddy every time he traded drugs, he shot directly at the opposite side without saying a word, thus ensuring his fast, punctual and high-quality "drug transportation reputation".
This decisive and fierce execution soon made him a confidant of the boss Galado, and joaquin Guz began to serve as a group cadre when he was less than 30 years old.
At that time, Colombian drug lords were the main force in selling to the US consumer market, and Mexico could only play the role of second-rate goods resold in the middle, and the sea route from Colombia to the United States was "meat-eating", and the Mexican drug lords who mastered the land passage from Mexico to the United States could only "drink soup".
Guzman, who is bent on pursuing a career, is not convinced, and he decided to build Mexico into a "drug kingdom" in all directions.
At this time, the United States sent "assists", in the mid-to-late 80s, the US government began to vigorously crack down on South American drugs into the United States shipping channel, for a time Colombian maritime drug trafficking was hit hard, and the land passage of Mexican drug cartels became a fragrant feast for everyone to show favors.
At this time, Guzman took the opportunity to meet the Colombian Escobar, the first drug lord in South America at that time, and since then, he has a stable supply of goods, and he has become more and more powerful, and his status and influence in the group are getting higher and higher.
Blocking Colombia's maritime drug trafficking routes and mexico's more frequent border shipments, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration had to send a large number of agents and informants to Mexico to combat the drug trafficking trade.
Otherwise, Garado's underworld overlord lives up to its name, not only scorning the local government, but also torturing and killing agents sent by the United States.
In 1984, with the help of an American undercover agent named Kiki, the Mexican government destroyed about 15,000 acres of Guadalajara Group's cannabis plantation in one fell swoop, and bit down one bite of Guadalajara Group's flesh.
Galado was furious and told Guzman to kidnap and kill Kiki. A month later, Kiki's body was found on the side of the road, with broken ribs, ruptured trachea, and scaly wounds all over his body.
Such a vicious killing naturally infuriated the United States, and Washington immediately put pressure on the Mexican government to immediately launch a "war on drugs" and deal a strong blow to the Guadalajara group.
Galado also paid the price for his arrogance, and in 1989 he was arrested and imprisoned, and the group was divided into three, and Guzman took advantage of the chaos to seize power and directly seize a powerful "golden" drug trafficking channel, becoming the largest of the three separatist forces, that is, the leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="10" > power surpassed the president and escaped twice</h1>
Inheriting most of Galado's industry, Guzman continued to grow bigger and stronger in the drug trafficking business, constantly "innovating", which can be described as playing new tricks, and even reached the point where his power once exceeded that of the president.
In 2009, Guzman's power ranking reached 41st in the global power list released by Forbes, higher than that of russian president Medrodev and French president Sarkozy.
In 2011, Forbes global top ten evil list Guzman "kicked" the dead bin Laden and reached the top of the list, such a strong "achievement" is naturally indispensable to his painstaking management.
When Guzman founded the Sinaloa cartel, he first spent a lot of money to build a disposable submarine to transport drugs under the sea between Mexico and Colombia, and then he dug thousands of passages between Mexico and the United States for tunneling drugs, and the ventilation lighting and even the rails inside were readily available, which was really a talent in the "drug trafficking community".
With these novel drug trafficking ideas, Guzman was always one step ahead, and although others also competed to imitate, his money and power became larger first, and he began to use this money to open up the government's way and make his drug trafficking road smoother and smoother.
Guzman's status has risen step by step, and when he wanted to further expand his business, he was met with the eyes of his peers and "stabbed".
At that time, the mexican city of Tijuana was a treasure trove of tunnels, but this was the territory of Galado's nephew Felix brothers, who were extremely ineffectual and unconscionable.
Guzman sent a crony to discuss the division of interests with him, but Felix did not say a word and killed the people, and also wiped out the family members of the cronies.
Guzman was taken aback, and before he could make his next move, the Felix brothers set their sights on another of his henchmen, Parma.
The Felix brothers sent men to seduce Parma's wife, then killed Parma, then drowned two children under the age of five. In addition, the brothers tortured and killed some of the main elements of the Sinaloa group and bombed a house in Guzman.
Guzman naturally gritted his teeth in hatred for this, and he began to pay a lot of money to hire mercenaries and bribe the Mexican police. On November 8, 1992, Guzman led a large number of people disguised as police officers to raid a nightclub where the Felix brothers were located, although they killed many of the other side, but the Felix brothers still escaped by chance.
The two sides then began a full-scale confrontation, and in 1993 the Felix brothers discovered that Guzman would be on a plane, so they ambushed and prepared to assassinate Guzman in advance.
The location was correct, but the car was wrong, and the Felix Brothers sent a strafing with a gun to kill a respected Catholic leader by mistake, while Guzman, who was not far away, heard the gunshots and turned around early to leave.
Nearly 90 percent of Mexico's Catholic population is Catholic, bribery is no good, and dual pressure from the Holy See and the international community has forced the Mexican government to do its best to arrest both sides that provoked the incident.
Guzman also had to take shelter, and finally Guzman was imprisoned for the first time in his life, and was finally arrested after being betrayed abroad in June 1993, and then transferred to a Mexican prison and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
People caught it, and finally gave the public an explanation, but after a period of heat dissipation, Guzman used money to open a road in prison or a "great uncle".
He bribed many people in the prison with a lot of money, still lived a luxurious life in prison, and even did not affect his drug trafficking transactions outside, and he could control everything outside in prison, but also ushered in the "time and place", getting bigger and bigger.
In 1994, the United States threatened Mexico to join the North American Free Trade Area, which was good, and in the absence of tariffs, a large number of cheap agricultural products in the United States began to squeeze local farmers in Mexico, resulting in them not being able to maintain food and clothing.
In desperation, these farmers could only follow Guzman and other drug lords to grow drug plants such as marijuana, and their incomes almost doubled by more than 30 times, which objectively helped Guzman's power expand until the Sinaloa Group mastered more than 23,000 square miles of drug plantations.
During this period, there are also unexpected "linkages", in the last century, Mexican drugs were still dominated by heroin, but the huge market for methamphetamine has been exposed.
Guzman wanted to keep pace with the times, so he sent people to China to find Liu Zhaohua (China's drug lord and chemical genius, according to his own words, making methamphetamine only for export to china) to make methamphetamine.
However, liu Zhaohua could not be found, but his men brought back two bottles of lao ganma, Guzman tasted it, found that the taste was not bad, and then made a Mexican cottage version of the "lao ganma" brand sauce, falsely used to transport drugs.
Subsequently, Guzman contacted The Chinese drug lord Ye Zhenzhen in Mexico to provide raw materials for drugs, and has since become the largest drug lord group.
I don't know if it was to hide his eyes and ears, Ming Guzman could easily get out of prison, but he stayed in prison for many years, until 2001, when the United States insisted on extraditing him, which scared him and decided to leave prison.
Yes, it was to leave rather than flee, and the night before the United States wanted to extradite, there was speculation that Guzman was probably walking out of prison as graciously as he had been, because the surveillance footage of those days had been stripped away and unsubstantiated.
The official claim that Guzman bought a prison social worker and hid him in a transport box and sent him out, this statement inevitably seems absurd, if it is true, it can only be said that Mexican prisons are like sieves.
After escaping from prison, Guzman evaded government searches while continuing to pour his heart into "career".
No one will dislike their "drug trafficking territory" getting bigger and bigger, and Guzman has set his sights on Juárez City, the "place where soldiers must fight" in the Mexican drug trafficking industry.
He learned the lessons of the Felix brothers and sent mercenaries to assassinate the drug dealers in Juárez City, but this action further stimulated the drug dealers' ambitions to seize the territory, and Mexico fell into a chaotic period of drug dealers attacking each other.
After the new round of Mexican presidents came to power, they began to vigorously crack down on drugs, and Guzman took a different approach, not only not afraid but also very excited to bribe and collude, through betraying the news, using the government's police force to suppress their peers on the road, and even the "disobedient" cadres within the group.
But Mexican drug dealers are really fierce, about 60,000 people died in the five years before and after the Mexican war on drugs that began in 2009, and the blood stained the streets of Mexico.
Although Guzman will also make a little cover-up, for example, 1,000 of the tens of thousands of drug traffickers arrested by the Mexican government in 2010 are the Sinaloa group, but they can't hide it, and eventually Guzman's family is retaliated against by opponents.
One of Guzman's sons and old lovers was brutally murdered by a rival hired killer, and an enraged Guzman retaliated by killing hundreds of people every month until the government, seeing the escalation of the conflict, sent 2,000 soldiers to Sinaloa to stop the black-eating black that seriously undermined social security.
However, Guzman's sons are also quite numerous, and after the sadness, Guzman will not delay Guzman to continue to have a happy life outside and talk about love. He took a fancy to an 18-year-old beauty pageant model, arranged for her to be a pageant champion and then married her home, after which the "little wife" gave birth to a pair of daughters for Guzman, who has been more pampered since then.
In 2014, while on vacation in a luxury villa in a Mexican coastal city, guzman escaped from the ground when government officials received news and went to arrest him.
Not only did he not immediately return to his hometown of Sinaloa, but he also visited his beautiful wife and lovely twin daughter in the same city, and was arrested again. This time with his relatives around, Guzman was arrested and imprisoned without firing a single shot.
The Mexican government's successful capture of Guzman was also in the limelight for a while, but soon his second escape from prison hit the Mexican government in the face.
This time Guzman was held in mexico's highest-security prison, staring 24 hours a day, almost an hour a day, so Guzman escaped by using the only dead corner in the cell, a narrow baffle of a shower room.
It turned out that he had arranged for people outside the prison to dig a tunnel to accurately reach the dead corner of the prison bathing room, where oxygen equipment, lighting, and even motorcycles were available.
For the arrival of this day, Guzman spent more than twenty minutes in the bathing room every day to dispel the suspicions of the surveillance guards, and finally managed to escape, and it is reported that the escape cost Guzman at least $50 million.
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However, Guzman was targeted by the Americans and soon re-imprisoned. Six months after his second escape, Guzman went on vacation and was surrounded by closely watched police.
He once again performed the "technique of underground escape" in the villa, but this time it was useless, and when he painstakingly climbed to the exit at the other end of the tunnel, the police had been waiting for a long time, and then he was extradited to the highest level of prison in the United States.
He has since been held in the United States, convicted of ten counts in 2019 and said to have confiscated $12.6 billion in assets.
Hearing this news, the United States declared that this was a victory for mankind over evil, and the Mexican people rejoiced, but the stolen money went into the pockets of the Americans and was not returned to the Mexican people.
Guzman went to jail, but his group did not fall. His three sons inherited his drug trafficking channels and strength, especially his third son, Ovidio, who was about to have a blue victory over blue.
As early as 2012, Ovidio was on the U.S. sanctions list of designated drug lords, just 22 years old. During Guzman's imprisonment, it was he who led the Guzman family to carry out the crisis of separation of power within Sinaloa and won the admiration of all.
And the young man also has a very "idea", he feels that cocaine and methamphetamine in this era are not trendy enough, directly introduce the old, and make fentanyl, which is more favored by young drug users, which is a new poison with better concealment.
The influx of fentanyl into the United States in large quantities is considered by the U.S. attorney general to be the largest drug crisis in U.S. history.
In 2019, after the United States and the Mexican government arrested Ovidio, a war between the Mexican government and drug trafficking militants broke out.
After the "Three Princes" were captured on the same day, more than 700 outlaws with guns quickly drove to the police station in the city to carry out a fierce attack, using the city as a battlefield, causing a large number of civilian casualties.
Seeing the situation expand, the Mexican government failed to suppress it forcefully, and secondly, it instigated it, and then President Lopez ordered the immediate release of Ovidio, on the grounds that there could be no more bloodshed.
If this wave of operations is the first time to hear about the Mexican government's actions, people may be confused, and it should be strange to understand its past performance, and the regular army can not defeat the drug lords' private armed forces not once or twice, anyway, it is very Mexican.
After Ovidio's release, the Guzman family thanked Lopez for his "deep righteousness" and declared that they were fully responsible for the losses of the conflict and compensated the residents for their losses.
This is not the first time Guzman has bought people's hearts with money, and the peasants of Sinaloa have not been "helped" by Guzman once or twice.
Even more magically, in March 2020, Lopez traveled thousands of miles to Sinaloa to shake hands with Guzman's mother, and Guzman's lawyer also colluded with Lopez to discuss Guzman's bail, which happened to be Ovidio's 30th birthday.
In this way, Guzman went in, but the evil power of the drug cartel was successfully inherited by his son, and Ovidio, a young man who may be the king of Mexico's new generation of drug lords, has begun to show his viciousness.
Now the "short" drug lord Guzman has been imprisoned three times, and it seems unlikely that he will come out again, but Mexican drug dealers are still rampant, and drug dealers even claim that selling drugs to the United States is against the United States.
Mexico's geopolitical environment and social culture doom its drug problems to be complex, and how to struggle out of the drug quagmire and end the chaos may not have real answers in the minds of Mexican government officials and rural farmers who grow marijuana.