El Chapo Part 1: Public Enemy Number One

El Chapo: the scourge of Mexico and America’s most-wanted. Joaquín
Guzmán Loera, to use his real name, escaped from custody multiple
times and dodged death many more. For years, he rode roughshod over
Mexican justice and evaded the long arm of the US Government. He
became an A-list celebrity criminal - a subject of fascination and
even reverence - despite a never-ending list of heinous crimes and
innocent victims. But how did this semi-literate psychopath from
the rural hinterland of Sinaloa do it? In the aftermath of Félix
Gallardo’s downfall, in the late 1980s and early ‘90s, the old drug
empire is divided up among heirs. Some will fare better in this new
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