People may know him as the most dangerous and most powerful man and also to be known as the man to own the world’s biggest and successful cartel named after the Mexican Pacific coast state Sinaloa (Sinaloa Cartel). Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera also known as El Chapo was born on December 25, 1954, or, he might have been born on April 4, 1957. He got the name El Chapo (The Shorty) because of his height (5 ft. 6 in.). From 2009 to 2011 Forbes magazine ranked him as one of the most powerful people in the world, 41st, 50th, and 60th respectively. He was the 2nd most powerful man in Mexico being Carlos Slim. The Forbes magazine also calls him the "biggest drug lord of all time", and the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) estimates …show more content…
His father was officially a cattle rancher, as were most in the area where Guzmán grew up; according to some sources, however, he may have possibly also been a gomero, a Sinaloan word for opium poppy farmer. Guzmán has two younger sisters, Armida and Bernarda, and four younger brothers: Miguel Ángel, Aureliano, Arturo and Emilio. He had three unnamed older brothers who reportedly died of natural causes when he was very young. As a child, he sold oranges, but after awhile he dropped out of school when he was in third grade to help his father and work for him. His dad also regularly beat him and he had fled to his grandmothers’ house from time to time to get away from such a beating, but when he was home he stuck up to his father to protect his younger siblings from getting a beating. Guzman’s dad had Guzman and his other brothers hike the hills of Badiraguato to cut the bud off of poppy so he could sell it. El Chapo, tired of his dad wasting his money on stupid things, started his own business in the drug game and had his own marijuana plantation at the age of 15 with his four cousins. When he was a teenager, his dad kicked him out and he had to go live with his grandfather, it was then when he got the nickname El Chapo, the Mexican