Dramatic Clip Captures Raid On World's Most Notorious Drug Lord
A long and recently bizarre story came to a violent end last week when the world’s most notorious drug lord, Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, was captured after a raid on a safe house in the coastal city of Los Mochis.
Guzmán was captured in 2014 by some of the same marines who conducted Friday’s raid but escaped from prison via an underground tunnel last year. Legend has it he also escaped from a high security facility in 2001 by hiding in a laundry basket.
Authorities were led to Guzmán’s residence by an unwitting Sean Penn who, along with famous Mexican actress Kate Del Castillo, visited the kingpin’s jungle hideout where Chapo gave a two-minute video interview. Penn would later pen (no pun intended) an exclusive article for Rolling Stone that carried the highly original title “El Chapo Speaks.”
Government “spies” were apparently watching Penn and Del Castillo on their journey to the underworld. The following images capture the pair arriving at an airport last October.
Apparently, Guzmán wanted his life story told on the silver screen but “but would entrust its telling only to Kate,” Penn wrote. Del Castillo once played a “drug lordess” (as Penn puts it) in a Mexican soap opera. Why Penn decided he needed to get involved is anyone's guess but you can read his lengthy rationale in the Rolling Stone piece.
At the end of the day, we imagine Guzmán wishes he had never met the actor because as Reuters notes, the "secret" meeting between the Hollywood star and the world's most-wanted drug boss 'was essential to finding the fugitive,' Mexico's attorney general said on Monday."
Mexican marines killed five bodyguards in the Friday raid and nearly captured the notoriously elusive crime boss who escaped through another tunnel hidden behind a closet mirror.
It took the marines an hour and a half to find the activation switch in a ceiling lamp and by that time, Chapo and “Cholo” (an underboss in the Sinaloa cartel) had crawled through the sewers, stolen a car, run out of gas, and stolen another car. Ultimately, they were captured.
Here’s WSJ:
Along with Mr. Gastelum, the drug kingpin managed to crawl for about one mile along the dark sewage tunnels of Los Mochis. A security camera showed the two fugitives climbing out off a street sewage tunnel in broad daylight. One marine told the network that it had begun to rain heavily and that may have forced Mr. Guzmán out of the sewers.
After emerging from the sewage tunnel, the two fugitives first stole one car, which ran out of gas, authorities said. Then, they stole another vehicle, which authorities were able to intercept after its owner alerted police. The two fugitives were captured and taken to a nearby motel as a precautionary measure while marines awaited for reinforcements.
“Your six-month vacation is over,” the head of the marine unit said he told Mr. Guzmán after he was captured.
And here's the full video of the raid:
With a power vacuum at the top of the Sinaloa cartel (part of the oligopoly that runs drug trafficking in Mexico), we wonder what, if any, effect Chapo's capture will have on the narcotics trade and, more generally on the Mexican economy. After all, some $50 billion flows into Mexico each year from the cartels' activities.
As Reuters noted five years ago, "Mexico probably made more money in 2009 moving drugs than it did exporting oil, its single biggest legitimate foreign currency earner."
That money flows into all sectors of the economy as cartel bosses struggle to wash the mountains of cash the gangs earn from their illicit activities. Then again, there may be no impact at all from Guzmán's capture because the endemic corruption that pervades Mexico's bureaucracies probably means Chapo will once again be crawling his way to freedom Shawshank-style in no time.
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Sean Penn explains why he needed to interview a drug lord
It was at a social event in Los Angeles when Kate met Espinoza. She learned he was well connected to financial sources, including those that funded film projects, and she proposed a partnership to make a film about El Chapo. This was when Espinoza included our mutual colleague and friend El Alto. I learned of their intention to make the film, but I did not know Kate or have any involvement with the project. The three of them met with El Chapo's lawyer to explore their approach, but it was ultimately determined that direct access to El Chapo would still be too restricted for their authorized pursuit to rise above competitive "Chapo" projects that Hollywood would pursue with or without his participation.
Then came July 2015. El Chapo's prison break. The world, and particularly Mexico and the United States, was up in arms. How could this happen?! The DEA and the Justice Department were furious. The fact that Mexican Interior Secretary Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong had refused El Chapo's extradition to the United States, then allowed his escape, positioned Chong and the Peña Nieto administration as global pariahs.
I followed the news of El Chapo's escape and reached out to Espinoza. We met in the courtyard of a boutique hotel in Paris in late August. He told me about Kate and that she had been intermittently receiving contact from Chapo even after the escape. It was then that I posed the idea of a magazine story. Espinoza's smile of mischief arose, indicating he would arrange for me to meet Kate back in Los Angeles. At a Santa Monica restaurant, I made my case, and Kate agreed to make the bridge, sending our names for vetting across the border. When word came back a week or so later that Chapo had indeed agreed to meet with us, I called Jann Wenner at Rolling Stone. Myself, Espinoza and El Alto were given the assignment. And with a letter from Jann officiating it, we would join Kate, who was our ticket to El Chapo's trust, then put ourselves in the hands of representatives of the Sinaloa cartel to coordinate our journey. It had been a month in the planning by the time Espinoza and I were breathing the New York air that late-September day on 55th Street.
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Is the movie script already done?
You can bet the Pure Evil Criminal Psychopaths at the CIA are working tirelessly on the PsyOp Script.
Guess they ran out of good use for El Chappo. Running Drugs & Guns for the CIA & their partners the Sinoloa Drug Cartel in Mexico gets boring.
On to the next Destabiliaztion Campaign.
CIA's job #1.....keep the spice flowing for the MIC.
And El Chapo was Rabban. Who gets to be Feyd? (With Langley's imprimatur, of course.)
Where's Corzine?
Freshly arrested drug lord TO-DO List:
1) Electrolysis off the fucking moustache. It is the universal latin sign of manhood. Off it goes. Samson needs his haircut.
2) Pink jumpsuit
3) Remove balls. At least no more reproducing. Bonus: calming, gelding-effect.
I can't wait to see how this Hollywood worm gets his from the carteles. Today is not a good day if your name is Sean Penn.
I was expecting to see a raid on the compound at Kennebunkport, my bad.
The guy does look to be an intellectual
So I guess now that he's gone there will not be a flood of heroin coming from another foreign policy success?
Nevermind.
I like the stripper photobomb pic though.
pods
Lingerie model Alessandra Ambrosio, I believe.
She is a celebrity with much more fame and relevance than Sean Penn.
All this story is missing are the telenovela babes running around in high heels and tight outfits.
I give you Exhibit A: https://www.google.com/search?q=telenovela&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved...
The 'war on drugs' is ALWAYS a fight among factions, never drug elimination (because you can't). The stated policy of eradication is cover for the unstated policy of control of distribution and money flows in support of usually unstated policy initiatives. Progress would be to drop the drug war as a criminal problem and make it simply a matter of community health, but then the CIA would be out of business as there'd be no need for an underground, criminal organization to manage the drug trade.
If one points out these simple facts of CIA complicity, they get shunned and fired. If one points it out with supporting documents he'll likely be killed.
BINGO! Word on the street is theses Pure Evil Criminal Psychopaths launder & park their money over at the IMF.
Proof of the pudding: COMPROMISED Clinton, Bush and the CIA It's old but still relevant, considering who wants to be Prez.
The book in PDF. And you can't tell me Hitlery didn't know all about it. The body count was - and is - very real. Ask the ghost of Gary Webb.
Who cares? We have victory in Oregon! A judge escorted by two US Marshalls is en route to Burns to reinstate law according to US Constitution. Eat shit progcommies, your days of rule are numbered (looking at you, Sean Penn).http://thelastgreatstand.com/2016/01/12/oregon-victory-judge-and-2-us-ma...
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Moar Phoebe Cates, please.
Will there be a staged photo-op of gasping pharma executives?
I havnt seen a guy in such a dirty wife beater since an Alabama trailer park plumber!
I guess we'll just call it "Poor Mexican" camoflage and leave it at that.
Never trust a woman who wears her pants to tight
Brent Mydlan of the Grateful Dead
Nice job Penn. Good thinking to pull hollywood into this. LMFAO!!!
HAHAHAHA!!! Hollywood - always looking for cash ... in all the wrong places :-)
From the headline I thought John Brennan had been arrested.
I here the White Shoe Boys get the pass.
Hear, fuckin dumbass.
i notice that Chapo tried to run again - and got caught again. He always pays other people to do his fighting for him, and to die for him - but he never fights for himself. Not that it matters. it's game over for Chapo Guzman this time. Mexico will extradite him to the USA, and Chapo will spend the rest of his life rotting in a US jail cell.
I don't have much sympathy for a man who destroyed the lives of thousands of people directly, and indirectly caused millions to suffer from addiction. But you do have to admit one thing about Chapo Guzman - he is an organizational genius. I don't know why people from Corporate America write books about "management theories". Chapo could toss all of these people on their butts. He single-handedly created the most effective drug distribution organization in the world, and he constantly managed to ship tons of illegal products into the USA - despite the most elaborate precautions to try and stop him. In a very perverse way ... it shows an exceptional organizational talent. If this guy went in a different direction in life - he could have taught at the Harvard Business School.
No doubt the USA will want the same thing it always wants ... Chapo's money.
Corruption and bribe is your answer...
Contestant: Corporate Management and Banking for $300, Alex.
Alex: Corruption and bribes.
Contestant: What is organizational genius?
Alex: Correct. [Ding, ding, ding, ding]
Don't be so Naive & don't think for a second the Pure Evil Criminal Psychopaths at the CIA & DEA don't have a hand in importing the Drugs into the Criminal Fraud UNITED STATES, CORP. INC. Then, launder the money through the TBTFBANKSTERS to profit & help fund Destabiliaztion Campains of Soverign Countries to steal precious Resouces & minerals.
El Chapo didn't cause directly or indirectly, anything, anymore than you caused me to get up this morning...
Clear the shit out of your head about 'drugs' and 'druglords' and the ~real~ culprits who Purposefully Perpetuate this charade, decade after decade.
"He single-handedly created the most effective drug distribution organization in the world, and he constantly managed to ship tons of illegal products into the USA - despite the most elaborate precautions to try and stop him."
Indeed. That is some first class dogshit right there. Stop him? The CIA and DEA help facilitate and coordinate the shipments of drugs into the USA.
Back in Bush II, I was reading about the USAF spraying Agent Orange on poppy fields in A-Stan. then, I guess, ex-CIA head "Poppy" Bush told George Jr. that this had to stop as they were too close to achieving their goal. Now I understand, US troops GUARD the poppy fields.
Yea, HSBC is pissed he stopped laundering through them!
Wells Fargo as well. They're all Criminal Banking Institutions
I expected a photo of drug lord, John Brennan.
so will there be a contract on Penn now?
I thought the same thing. Can Penn be that stupid? Hard to believe that the Sinaloa Cartel won't take revenge for this.
Best revenge would be to continue to live as a has been actor...best thing for his career would be if somebody killed him!
That's twice Penn's gone full retard.
I don't think anyone's got the chance for a trifecta.
Yet.
Never go full retard.
He begs the question, can you dig yourself so deep into an acting role that you never come back from it and resume being yourself?
It's bad enough being retarded. But retarded AND a douche'?
Stupid should hurt. Here it really could get you killed.
jeff spicoli--"danger is my business"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKrpl-KBTzQ
well, apparently Madonna is still hot for him. She's not near as ugly as Hitlery but I still wouldn't do her, not even with Penn's dick.
Penn dick.
Is that shorter but ever so slightly thicker than say a pencil dick? Or a pin dick, which at least has a small head, but is rather like a needle dick?
What?
They didn't "capture and kill" him and dump the body at sea?
Because he's not David Copperfield
He can't make buildings disappear faster than gravity
According to muslim customs and tradition.
Come on, he was alive, not frozen and thawed out..
Anybody want in on the office pool of how many days will it take for Shawn Penn to get whacked. Sounds like Penn set him up. He finally stuck his pencil neck dick into something he shouldn't have. I bet he is shitting bricks now. HA HA