El Chapo
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Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera, commonly known as "El Chapo", is a Mexican former drug lord and the former top leader of the Sinaloa Cartel. Guzmán is believed to be responsible for the deaths of over 34,000 people, and was considered to be the most powerful drug trafficker in the world until he was extradited to the United States and sentenced to life in prison.
"El Chapo" is a Mexican drug trafficker who led the Sinaloa Cartel and was once considered the world's most powerful drug lord, allegedly responsible for over 34,000 deaths. He was extradited to the United States and sentenced to life in prison, ending his reign as a major criminal figure.
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Joaquín
- Family name
- Guzmán
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Mexico
- Place of birth
- La Tuna
- Occupation
- drug lord
- Employer
- Sinaloa Cartel
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Native language
- Spanish
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Field of work
- drug-related crime
- Image
- El Chapo Guzman - DEA Picture 2017.png
- Height
- 168
- Convicted of
- organized crime
- Significant event
- Panama Papers
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- date of birth
- 1957-04-04
- member of
- Guadalajara Cartel
- Commons category
- Joaquín Guzmán Loera
- name in native language
- Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera
- place of detention
- United States Penitentiary, Florence ADMAX
- different from
- Joaquín Eufrasio Guzmán
- penalty
- life imprisonment
- nickname
- El Chapo
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Encyclopedic overview
Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera ( Spanish: [xoaˈkin aɾtʃiˈβaldo ɣusˈman loˈeɾa]; born 4 April 1957), commonly known as "El Chapo", is a Mexican former drug lord and the former top leader of the Sinaloa Cartel. Guzmán is believed to be responsible for the deaths of over 34,000 people, and was considered to be the most powerful drug trafficker in the world until he was extradited to the United States and sentenced to life in prison.
Guzmán was born in Sinaloa and raised in a poor farming family. He endured much physical abuse at the hands of his father, through whom he also entered the drug trade. During his early adulthood, his father helped him grow marijuana for local dealers. By the late 1970s, Guzmán had begun working with Héctor Luis Palma Salazar, one of the nation's rising drug lords. He helped Salazar map routes to move drugs through Sinaloa and into the United States. He supervised logistics for Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, one of the nation's leading kingpins, in the mid-1980s, but founded his own cartel in 1988 after Félix's arrest.
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