El Chapo Story

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Legends say he is a ghost roaming around the world and the seven seas. Selling his way to fortune he sold candy, oranges, soft drinks. Very close with his mother a very hard worker… she worked a lot. They grew corn and beans. From a poor humble family he became responsible to the age of 15 he grew up in a ranch called, La Tuna he turned the coin around and went to the drugs he grew poppy and marijuana he began to grow it, to harvest and to sell it. At the age of 18 to Culiacan, then after to Guadalajara never without visiting his ranch, even until today… because his mom, thanks to God, is still alive, out there at his ranch, which is La Tuna, so… that’s how things have been. Sinaloa Culiacan founded in 1989 from the …show more content…
Furthermore, many people see him as a robin hood Guzmán is a normal guy, very good with people. When somebody needs something, he helps them. 'El Chapo' is a beloved folk hero in his Mexican homeland, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has a reputation that differs from how the rest of the world sees him. In the Mexican state of Sinaloa, Guzman is not always seen as the world’s most wanted drug lord. Many poor residents see him as a folk hero. The Sinaloa Cartel boss made a daring underground escaped from a max security prison in Mexico over the weekend. His flight has Mexican and international authorities livid. But the impoverished inhabitants Sinaloa likely have celebrated the breakout. El Chapo is beloved in poor areas of Sinaloa for giving back. He allegedly invests revenue from his drug trafficking organization back into his homeland. The cartel’s presence there also protects the people from other criminal organizations that want to encroach on the territory, defenders …show more content…
Trafficking heroin, meth, cocaine, and marijuana, these organizations will continue to dominate throughout the US, according to the DEA. Mexico is a major drug transit and producing country. It is the main foreign supplier of cannabis and an important entry point of South American cocaine and Asian methamphetamines to the United States. It is believed that almost half the cartels' revenues come from cannabis, but cocaine, heroin, and increasingly methamphetamine are also traded. Due to the facts is we living an era where we are blind and the country of Mexico don’t know who are the good and the bad. The bad only shuts up like if nothing happened. Is crucial for the Mexican people to live in peace and harmony we don’t see that anymore; everyone is living with

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