El Chapo: Building Of The Sinaloa Cartel

There are many Drug Lord’s all over the world but none as infamous as the notorious most wanted, Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán. Chapo is known for the building of the Sinaloa cartel, the most powerful organized crime institution across the world, mainly notorious for drug trafficking. Mostly marijuana, heroin, methamphetamines, and cocaine are smuggled across other countries, mainly to the United States. Chapo is also well known for escaping custody ten times easier than it takes for him to actually get captured. In 1993, Chapo was sentenced to 20 years in prison, but in 2001 he made his first escape from one of Mexico's toughest prisons, Puente Grande. According to The New York Times, in this facility every prisoner has two prison guards to watch

El Chapo was wanted for crimes both in Mexico as well as the United States. “He faces federal charges filed accusing him and his Sinaloa Cartel of importing more than 200 metric tons of cocaine into the United States, as well as heroin, methamphetamines, and marijuana” (Ahmed, D 2017). Along with his notorious history of drug trafficking, that’s not all El Chapo was engaged with. He faces indictments from 6 different jurisdictions, including the manufacture and distribution of a range of drugs, the use of firearms, money laundering and operating an ongoing criminal enterprise. The United States is also looking to recover almost 14 billion dollars that investigators say the cartel smuggled from the US. To top this off, El Chapo also faces charges of murder due to a direct order for assassins to kill thousands of competing drug traffickers between 2007 and

It was hard to take custody because El Chapo’s lawyers tried to block the extradition and keep him in Mexico. Mexican laws state an individual subject to extradition has the right to challenge it through the courts. El Chapo had already filed numerous orders to prevent extradition to the United States, lengthening out the process and making it more difficult to take custody. When he was recaptured for the third time now, Mexican government suddenly handed him to the United States so they wouldn't have to go through the embarrassment of him escaping for a third time taking a weight off their shoulders.

El Chapo’s extradition to the United States was the superior reaction due to his last two escapes in Mexico. The Mexican and US authorities would prefer to have him charged and imprisoned in the United States, as he has far less influence in the US and its prison system. The only limitation this response has is the limitations on El Chapo himself. In Mexico, he was able to use his cartel contacts and influence to organize several escapes from Mexican prisons. In the United States it is very unlikely that he would be able to commit these acts, allowing the US government to remain with the upper hand. El Chapo being imprisoned in the US might also deter others from committing crimes around the US-Mexican border because such a huge organized crime figure is captured. Politicized justice involves perverting the judicial or criminal justice