http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/23/w...cartel-leader-is-captured-in-mexico.html?_r=0
Joaquín Guzmán Loera, Sinaloa Drug Cartel Leader, Is Captured in Mexico
MEXICO CITY — The world’s most wanted drug kingpin, Joaquín Guzmán Loera, known as El Chapo, has been captured at a Mexican beach resort, a senior American law-enforcement official said Saturday, ending a 13-year manhunt for the chief supplier of illegal drugs to the United States and much of the world.
The arrest of Mr. Guzmán, whose nickname, Chapo, means Shorty, was the drug world equivalent of the take down of Osama bin Laden. Mr. Guzmán, who is considered the head of the Sinaloa Cartel, the largest and most powerful with tentacles on every continent but Antarctica, had eluded the authorities time and again. He escaped from a prison in a laundry basket in January 2001, just before an extradition order to the United States. He faces a bounty of drug trafficking and other charges stemming from a multi-billion drug empire.
Few details were available Saturday morning as word spread, but a picture of Mr. Guzmán, looking hand-cuffed and with a few cuts to his face and torso, circulated among law-enforcement officials. So hidden was he that there was uncertainty what he looked like, but American officials said they believed he was the man in custody is him.
Mexican marines captured him in the Pacific beach resort area of Mazatlan. There were no reports of shots fired.
In the past year, several of Mr. Guzmán’s top associates have been detained and crime analysts who follow the drug world had speculated his days were increasingly numbered.
Joaquín Guzmán Loera, Sinaloa Drug Cartel Leader, Is Captured in Mexico
MEXICO CITY — The world’s most wanted drug kingpin, Joaquín Guzmán Loera, known as El Chapo, has been captured at a Mexican beach resort, a senior American law-enforcement official said Saturday, ending a 13-year manhunt for the chief supplier of illegal drugs to the United States and much of the world.
The arrest of Mr. Guzmán, whose nickname, Chapo, means Shorty, was the drug world equivalent of the take down of Osama bin Laden. Mr. Guzmán, who is considered the head of the Sinaloa Cartel, the largest and most powerful with tentacles on every continent but Antarctica, had eluded the authorities time and again. He escaped from a prison in a laundry basket in January 2001, just before an extradition order to the United States. He faces a bounty of drug trafficking and other charges stemming from a multi-billion drug empire.
Few details were available Saturday morning as word spread, but a picture of Mr. Guzmán, looking hand-cuffed and with a few cuts to his face and torso, circulated among law-enforcement officials. So hidden was he that there was uncertainty what he looked like, but American officials said they believed he was the man in custody is him.
Mexican marines captured him in the Pacific beach resort area of Mazatlan. There were no reports of shots fired.
In the past year, several of Mr. Guzmán’s top associates have been detained and crime analysts who follow the drug world had speculated his days were increasingly numbered.
