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El Chapo: The Most Powerful Drug Lord

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El Chapo The Most Powerful Drug Lord Joaquin Archivaldo Guzman Loera entered the drug trade as a teenager. He got the nickname "El Chapo" because it was due to his height. He founded the Sinaloa cartel in 1989, over as the time passed he build a powerful drug trafficking cartel. Known for his malevolent actions and powerful influences Guzman has escaped twice from maximum security prisons in Mexico. According, to the sources from The Last Narco “Today he is well known to be one of the richest men in the country.” Guzman a fugitive from the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), Procuraduría General de la República (PGR) and International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) in multiple countries.

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