for the rest of his life. He escaped prison with the help of guards in Mexico. They want to try him in Chicago.

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I guess we know what one topic was.

Being friends with the DEA has been known to bite people in the ass before.

Thanks!

How will this be used as a bargaining chip?

here in mexico state in high security. Calixtlahuaca, right next to us and his politico buddies had him moved to where he could escape.

It was very suspicious the way he "escaped".

It's terrible the narco wars, I'm guessing this will lead to more killings.

The violence has escalated in many places, but with PRI in charge it gets reported on even less.

It's got the whole story of his "escape." Money buys a lot of favors.

Query whether this would be a breakthrough in law enforcement or the Sinaloa Cartel losing Most Favored Cartel status with the Mexican government.

hush hush.

There was a several million dollar reward on his head. I wonder if anyone is going to get it?

That's 30 people per day, every single day.

Following the capture of Mexico’s most elusive drug lord, all major cartels announced they would immediately cease their operations, saying drug trafficking was “just becoming too risky.”

Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, head of the large Sinaloa cartel, was arrested in the resort city of Mazatlan, on Mexico’s Pacific coast. His capture is said to be the final chapter in the joint U.S.-Mexico war on drugs.

“You win, because effective today, we’re going to stop producing and smuggling cocaine and other drugs,” said Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, Guzman’s business partner. “We’re all really scared of being sent to prison, to tell you the truth.”

As news of Guzman’s arrest spread across the world, heads of other cartels said they, too, were closing up shop to avoid trouble with the police.

“It’s time for us to throw in the towel,” said a source from Los Zetas, one of Mexico’s other major cartels. “If the police can get to El Chapo, even with his crazy mustache disguise, they can get to all of us.”

http://dandygoat.com/cocaine-sales-to-cease-after-capture-of-drug-lord

is a bullet. And I'm not even in favor of guns or capital punishment. But if this guy is incarcerated, he'll run the cartel from behind bars.

Our drug policies are seemingly designed to force the smartest and most ruthless operators to the top. And they don't stop the drugs.

to make money. This particular criminal already has one of the biggest meth productions in the world. They don't care if it's pot, meth, stealing, murder, or whatever. They'll find a way to commit crime for money.

Another major kingpin still at large.

One of his nicknames was "Poppy" Bush. As in opium poppy. Started in the golden triangle and moved on to Afghanistan.

The Taliban destroyed an entire years worth of Opium crops. They were offered "a carpet of gold or a carpet of bombs" to re-establish the crops. They refused to cooperate and were given the bombs. Within one year of our invasion the Opium crop was re-established which makes up 80% of the world's Opium.

Using internet archives this could be tracked before and after the war, with the CIA's very own factbook which shows statistics on illicit drugs.

$250 Billion annual gets laundered on Wall Street.

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