El Chapo trivia: 75 facts about the notorious drug dealer and Cartel leader!

El Chapo is one of the most notorious drug dealers and, later, Cartel leaders of the last years! He is now moved to a Supermax prison.

1. His full name is Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera
2. He was born on 4 April 1957
3. He is a Mexican drug lord
4. He was a former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel
5. Sinaloa Cartel was a criminal organization named after the Mexican Pacific coast state of Sinaloa
6. There it was formed
7. He is known as “El Chapo”
8. In english that means “Shorty”
9. His nickname is because of his 168 cm (5 ft 6 in) stature
10. Guzmán became Mexico’s top drug kingpin in 2003
11. He beacame a drug kingpin after the arrest of his rival Osiel Cárdenas Guillén of the Gulf Cartel
12. He was considered the “most powerful drug trafficker in the world” by the U.S. Department of the Treasury
13. Each year from 2009 to 2013, Forbes magazine ranked El Chapo as one of the most powerful people in the world
14. His rankings where 41st, 60th, 55th, and 67th respectively
15. He was thus the second most powerful man in Mexico
16. The magazine also calls him the “biggest drug lord of all time”
17. The U.S. federal government considers El Chapo “the most ruthless, dangerous, and feared man on the planet”
18. The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) estimated that he matched the influence and reach of Pablo Escobar
19. He was also onsidered “the godfather of the drug world”
20. In 2013, the Chicago Crime Commission named Guzmán “Public Enemy Number One”
21. This came from the influence of his criminal network in Chicago
22. The last person to receive such notoriety was Al Capone in 1930
23. El Chapo’s Sinaloa Cartel transports multi- ton cocaine shipments from Colombia through Mexico to the United States
24. He has distribution cells throughout the U.S.
25. The organization has been involved in the production, smuggling, and distribution of Mexican methamphetamine, marijuana, ecstasy (MDMA) and heroin throughout America and Europe
26. By the time of his 2014 arrest, El Chapo had exported more drugs to the United States than any other trafficker
27. These include more than 500 tons (500,000 kg) of cocaine
28. El Chapo was first captured in 1993 in Guatemala
29. He was extradited and sentenced to 20 years in prison in Mexico for murder and drug trafficking
30. He bribed prison guards and escaped from a federal maximum-security prison in 2001
31. He was wanted by the governments of Mexico and the United States
32. He was also wanted by INTERPOL
33. The U.S. offered a $5 million reward for information leading to his capture
34. The Mexican government offered a reward of 60 million pesos
35. This is approximately $3.8 million
36. He was arrested a second time in Mexico on 22 February 2014
37. He was found inside a fourth- floor condominium in Mazatlán, Sinaloa
38. El Chapo was captured without any gunshots
39. Guzmán escaped again in July 2015 through a 1.5 km (0.93 mi) tunnel that led to a construction site
40. He was recaptured by Mexican marines and Federal Police following a shoot- out on 8 January 2016
41. He was extradited to the United States on 19 January 2017
42. There he faced criminal charges related to his leadership of the Sinaloa Cartel
43. He was found guilty by a jury in Brooklyn on 12 February 2019
44. He was found guilty of all drug trafficking counts
45. He is expected to be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole
46. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for 25 June 2019
47. He is currently been moved to a Supermax prison
48. Guzmán’s family is heavily involved in drug trafficking
49. Several members of his family, including his brother, one of his sons, and a nephew were killed by Sinaloa’s archrival cartels
50. Los Zetas and the Beltrán Leyva Organization
51. In 1977, El Chapo married Alejandrina María Salazar Hernández in a small ceremony in the town of Jesús María, Sinaloa
52. They had at least three children
53. They were César, Iván Archivaldo, and Jesús Alfredo
54. He set them up in a ranch home in Jesús María
55. When he was 30 years old, El Chapo fell in love with a bank clerk, Estela Peña of Nayarit
56. Ηe kidnapped and had sexual relations with
57. They later got married
58. In the mid- 1980s, Guzmán married once more
59. He married to Griselda López Pérez
60. They had four children
61. They were Édgar, Joaquín, Ovidio, and Griselda Guadalupe
62. Guzmán’s sons followed him into the drug business
63. His third wife, López Pérez, was arrested in 2010, in Culiacán
64. In November 2007, El Chapo married an 18- year- old American beauty queen, Emma Coronel Aispuro
65. She is the daughter of one of his top deputies, Inés Coronel Barreras, in Canelas, Durango
66. In August 2011, she gave birth to twin girls, Maria Joaquina and Emali Guadalupe, in Los Angeles County Hospital, in California
67. In 2012, Alejandrina Gisselle Guzmán Salazar, a 31- year- old pregnant physician and Mexican citizen from Guadalajara, was said to have claimed she was Guzmán’s daughter
68. She was crossing the U.S. border into San Diego
69. In 2017, Netflix and Univision began co- producing the series El Chapo about the life of Guzmán
70. The series premiered on Sunday, 23 April 2017 at 8PM/7C on Univision
71. It was followed by a 20- minute Facebook Live after- show titled “El Chapo Ilimitado”
72. El Chapo is also portrayed by Alejandro Edda in the Netflix television series Narcos: Mexico
73. Martin Corona is the chief assassin for a rival cartel of Sinaloa’s who mistakenly killed a priest when aiming at El Chapo
74. He published a tell- all memoir titled Confessions of a Cartel Hit Man in 2017
75. Some American artists have made songs with references to El Chapo, such as the rappers Uncle Murda, Skrillex, YG, Gucci Mane and The Game