Joaquin Guzman is the drug lord Houdini
Mexican Drug Kingpin Joaquin “Shorty” Guzman is the drug lord Houdini who has become the poster child for the saying, “These walls can’t hold me down.”
On Saturday night, Guzman managed to escape again from his perilous conditions via a tunnel that was under the Mexican Federal prison shower.
Guzman eased on down the tunnel until he made his way to a small farm house sitting out on its lonesome in open terrain, surrounded by high grass.
From there, he disappeared into the night air and the high plains. It would be an understatement to say that the Mexican and U.S. officials are as mad as a gator on a hook.
Both have been fighting back and forth over who can better contain the drug lord Houdini. Last year, House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mike McCaul (R-MI) appeared on CNN’s “The Situation Room” and told host Wolf Blitzer that Mexico’s high level of “corruption” is why he [McCaul] didn’t believe the country would be able to hold Guzman.
Alejandro Hope told New York Times’ writer Azam Ahmed that the mere fact that Guzman escaped is an embarrassment for Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, who touts himself as the clean politician.
Although Mexico has proven twice over that its “walls can’t hold” Guzman down, the chances are the U.S. wouldn’t be able to contain him either.
Guzman is a master escape artist. He has lavish tunnels going from one end of Mexico to another.
And considering his high ranking status in his illegal profession, it wouldn’t be surprising to hear that the U.S. officials have found Guzman’s lavish tunnels stretching from the Gulf States, up the Mississippi, all the way over to the Hudson River.
Guzman is no fool. He’s older and he’s wiser. Guzman was born in 1954. He is 60 years old. Guzman began his rise in the drug trade during the 1980s, when crack cocaine became a big hit.
He managed to break off from his boss, Miguel Angel Felix-Gallardo, and take over the Sinaloa Cartel and make it a multi-billion dollar company.
Guzman’s business savvy in the illegal drug trade business got him a #67 ranking on Forbes 2013 most powerful people list.
He is one of the United States’ biggest distributors of illegal narcotics, and Guzman’s product makes up 25% of the illegal drugs that are shipped into the country.
Guzman was first caught in 1993 and given a 20 year sentence for murder and drug trafficking.
The sentence would have ended in 2013, but Guzman decided that he couldn’t wait that long for freedom.
So he broke out of a maximum security prison in 2001, and remained free until his capture in 2014.
Unfortunately for the Mexican and U.S. officials, Guzman has a tendency to stay 10 steps ahead of them.
And instead of it taking him 8 years to develop a well escape plan, it took him a little over a year to build a tunnel to freedom.
Considering the fact that Guzman tends to improve his escape plan the second time around, the chances are that this time he will remain unfound.
On Saturday night, Guzman managed to escape again from his perilous conditions via a tunnel that was under the Mexican Federal prison shower.
Guzman eased on down the tunnel until he made his way to a small farm house sitting out on its lonesome in open terrain, surrounded by high grass.
From there, he disappeared into the night air and the high plains. It would be an understatement to say that the Mexican and U.S. officials are as mad as a gator on a hook.
Both have been fighting back and forth over who can better contain the drug lord Houdini. Last year, House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mike McCaul (R-MI) appeared on CNN’s “The Situation Room” and told host Wolf Blitzer that Mexico’s high level of “corruption” is why he [McCaul] didn’t believe the country would be able to hold Guzman.
Alejandro Hope told New York Times’ writer Azam Ahmed that the mere fact that Guzman escaped is an embarrassment for Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, who touts himself as the clean politician.
Although Mexico has proven twice over that its “walls can’t hold” Guzman down, the chances are the U.S. wouldn’t be able to contain him either.
Guzman is a master escape artist. He has lavish tunnels going from one end of Mexico to another.
And considering his high ranking status in his illegal profession, it wouldn’t be surprising to hear that the U.S. officials have found Guzman’s lavish tunnels stretching from the Gulf States, up the Mississippi, all the way over to the Hudson River.
Guzman is no fool. He’s older and he’s wiser. Guzman was born in 1954. He is 60 years old. Guzman began his rise in the drug trade during the 1980s, when crack cocaine became a big hit.
He managed to break off from his boss, Miguel Angel Felix-Gallardo, and take over the Sinaloa Cartel and make it a multi-billion dollar company.
Guzman’s business savvy in the illegal drug trade business got him a #67 ranking on Forbes 2013 most powerful people list.
He is one of the United States’ biggest distributors of illegal narcotics, and Guzman’s product makes up 25% of the illegal drugs that are shipped into the country.
Guzman was first caught in 1993 and given a 20 year sentence for murder and drug trafficking.
The sentence would have ended in 2013, but Guzman decided that he couldn’t wait that long for freedom.
So he broke out of a maximum security prison in 2001, and remained free until his capture in 2014.
Unfortunately for the Mexican and U.S. officials, Guzman has a tendency to stay 10 steps ahead of them.
And instead of it taking him 8 years to develop a well escape plan, it took him a little over a year to build a tunnel to freedom.
Considering the fact that Guzman tends to improve his escape plan the second time around, the chances are that this time he will remain unfound.
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