“The Most Dangerous Rich Man in the World is Busted”

Joaquin (El Chapo) Guzman has been busted by Mexican Marines in the desert/Pacific Ocean resort of Mazatlan, Mexico. El Chapo (Short for Chapparito, Shorty) is ranked as one of the richest men in the world by Forbes magazine resulting from myriad illegal narcotics manufacture, growing, distributing and selling throughout the United States of America, Europe and the United States of Mexico.
Using as his base one of the world’s finest agricultural areas in the Pacific Mexican state of Sinaloa and its principal city of Culiacan (Kool-ee-ah-kahn) an ancient city founded by the Aztecs on their odyssey south from the Bering Sea, El Chapo grew his gang of “narcotrafficantes” (drug dealers) from a handful of farmers to a sophisticated army of murderers, brilliant logistical thinkers and a gaggle of financial experts that have contributed to his personal fortune.
Every American junkie puts money into El Chapo’s pocket with almost — every marijuana cigarette they smoke, every snort of cocaine up their noses, every dose of crystal meth amphetamine and even some of the heroin they shoot into their veins.
American, Mexican, Cayman Island and Swiss bank accounts of Chapo’s are awash with his money as well as U.S Treasury notes and bonds his drug money regularly buys. His revenues are unprecedented in criminal history. The Sicilian Mafia has never equaled the revenues or murders of El Chapo; the Mafiosos are amateurs in distribution of contraband, in its quantity and quality and availability to every drug user in the U.S.
El Chapo has built a multi-national drug enterprise that sprawls throughout the 450-million people of North America and the millions of Europe without the benefit of a Harvard business degree; in fact, El Chapo has nothing more than a third grade formal education.
Drug trafficking expert Patrick Radden O’Keefe of the Century Foundation and New Yorker Magazine estimates that El Chapo’s cartel supplies up to 40% of all illicit narcotics in the United States with no other cartel or “Muslim Afghanistan/Bekka Valley/Pakistan” drug traffickers of the poppy and its resultant heroin coming close to that 40% estimate.
Chapo pioneered the construction of drug tunnels under the American border, the use of “submarines” to bring merchandise north and single file processions of Mexican men carrying his merchandise across the desert and mountains in duffel bags and backpacks; he did this two decades ago
The traditional method of cross-border drug trafficking of passenger cars, one kilo per car of some of the 50,000 cars-a-day and 650,000 commercial trucks through the busiest port of entry in the world between Tijuana, Mexico and San Diego, California ended mostly when the US deployed hundreds of trained drug sniffing dogs.
The Mexican economy has benefited thanks to the drug habits of millions of Americans who plow billions into illicit drugs. From the grower of cannabis plants in the mountains of Sinaloa, Sonora and Chihuahua to the people (mules) who back pack drugs across the border under the noses of the Border Patrol to the drivers who pick up the “merchandise” on this side of the border and drive it all over the country, thousands of people are involved.
One recalls a San Fernando Valley/Los Angeles warehouse bust that occurred some years back that contained tons, repeat, tons of cocaine awaiting processing into tons more of retail merchandise for the Los Angeles/Orange County/San Diego/Las Vegas market, the largest and richest cocaine market in the world. That bust occurred because honest Mexican and American drug cops joined forces.
The same occurred in the bust of El Chapo. American Drug Enforcement agents and U.S. Marshalls joined Mexican federales to track Chapo and watched as Mexican Marines made the bust without firing a shot.
The Mexican Marines (Infanteria del Mar—sea-going Infantry; or Cuerpo de Marinos – Marine Corps) are used because they are most effective in arresting drug kingpins. Why? In contrast to Mexican Army officers that are garrisoned in static “camps” and are well known at the local level they are easy to bribe, the Marines are stationed in Vera Cruz and are loaded up in planes and flown to target areas without anyone knowing the destination or target except for maybe the President of Mexico and a handful of people around him including the Mexican Navy Admiral who commands the Marines.
As Chapo has been indicted by several American state and federal grand juries, extradition is possible due to the fact that Chapo was in a Mexican prison a decade ago and escaped by bribing a gaggle of prison officers so he could be rolled out in a laundry cart and truck.
If the US State Department is smart, they will arrange a special cell at the Florence, Colorado “Super Max” prison from which no one will ever escape. All participating in the bust of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman deserve “atta boys,” including the President of Mexico whom everyone thought would ease up on the war on cartels started by former President Felipe Calderon eight years ago.
Of course, Mexican bodies will pile up even higher now that Chapo is out of the picture. His competitors and his own people will fight it out for control of the billion dollar business.
Supply and Demand is the irrefutable law involved – that is, all American junkies know or care about, they have the demand, someone has to have the supply.alifornia Hispanics are shunning President’s Obama’s single most important “achievement,” despite giving him their overwhelming vote in November 2012. Why is that?