Who Is El Chapo: Helpful Or Harmful?

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I agree with Peter Vincent about El Chapo being simple to catch. In my view, if El Chapo decided to remain public, then he was bound to be easily spotted and caught. In addition, I believe that all that heat from people exclaiming that he was so magnificent got to his head and he deemed himself untouchable. Some might object to El Chapo being simple to capture, of course, on the grounds that he still remains in the hierarchy of all drug lords. Yet I would argue that simply being a significant drug lord does not mean that you can’t make mistakes and basically turn yourself in. Overall, I believe El Chapo is very dangerous, but regardless that all criminals can be caught—an important point given that El Chapo is now in custody and that Osama

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