From the archive: El Chapo: what the rise and fall of the kingpin reveals about the war on drugs

The Audio Long Read

The Guardian

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 18 January 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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We are raiding the Audio Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. This week, from 2019: As the capture and conviction of Mexico’s notorious drug lord has shown, taking down the boss doesn’t mean taking down the organisation. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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0:00.0	This is the Guardian.
0:30.0	The Guardian Archive Long Read.
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5:34.0	Chapo means Shorty in Spanish, was known around the world as a leader of Mexico's Cinaloa
5:40.3	cartel, and the most high-profile drug kingpin since Pablo Escobar.
5:46.4	In addition to smuggling thousands of tons of cocaine, heroin, marijuana, and synthetic
5:51.6	narcotics across the U.S. Mexico border, he had successfully pulled off two dramatic escapes
5:57.6	from prisons in Mexico.
6:00.1	He has been the subject of dozens of books, two popular TV series, and, in 2009, was included
6:07.0	in Forbes Magazine's list of billionaires.
6:11.0	The following year, that same magazine named Guzmán, one of the world's most wanted fugitives,
6:16.7	second to only Osama bin Laden.
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