Joaquín Guzmán Loera

Joaquín Guzmán Loera ( El Chapo also; * December 25, 1954 or April 4, 1957 in La Tuna, District Badiraguato, Sinaloa ) was the supreme head of the Sinaloa Cartel, a Mexican drug cartel. He was up to his arrest on 22 February 2014 at the most wanted drug lords in Mexico and the United States.

Life

Guzman was born on a ranch and has six siblings. His father was a rancher.

The early 1980s he established himself as Chief of Logistics in Sinaloa cartel. Since at least the late 1990s he runs the cartel along with Ismael Zambada García.

He was arrested on 9 June 1993 in Guatemala, delivered to Mexico and sentenced to 20 years and nine months in prison. On 19 January 2001 he managed an escape from the high security prison in the state of Jalisco. A guard opened his cell door and Guzman left the premises in a laundry truck.

Other sources claim, however, Guzmán had closed a deal with then- Mexican President Vicente Fox. Vicente Fox, who was in a financial squeeze at the time, to $ 20 million of Guzmán, have for its freedom receive.

Guzman, nicknamed El Chapo (Spanish for the little one, because of its estimated 1.55 to 1.68 meters in height ) which was 2009, according to the Forbes Magazine ranked number 41 on the Forbes list of The World 's Most Powerful People in 2012 he was on the 63rd. Guzmán decreed in 2012 had assets of approximately one billion dollars. On information leading to his arrest, a reward of seven million U.S. dollars ( as of 2011) was exposed.

On February 22, 2014 Guzman was arrested in the Mexican coastal town of Mazatlan in a joint operation by Mexican Marines and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency DEA. A few days later, several thousand people in Sinaloa demonstrated for his release.