In this document, you will find the text for the presentation about El Chapo. It is written in English. I got a 9 for this. It has a duration of 10-15 minutes. It also includes classroom questions in between sessions and a good start. You can also find the corresponding PowerPoint on my page. The p...
El Chapo
Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera also known as El Chapo, we have all heard of his name
before, [CLICK] but where does El Chapo stands for? [CLICK]
Raise your hand if you think El Chapo stands for ‘the little man’ [CLICK]
Raise your hand if you think that it stands for ‘chef’ [CLICK]
And the last option is that El Chapo stands for ‘shorty’
The right answer is [CLICK] ‘shorty’, because El Chapo is about 168 cm and that is considered
small for a man to most people. [CLICK]
El Chapo was born in Sinaloa, a state in Mexico, on 4 April 1957. [CLICK] He was raised in a
poor family. He endured physical abuse at the hands of his father and entered the drug trade
through his father. Joaquín’s family consists of a mother, father, 5 brothers and 2 sisters. El
Chapo is believed to have at least 15 children after countless affairs and several marriages.
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El Chapo is a Mexican former drug lord and a former leader within the Sinaloa Cartel. The
Sinaloa Cartel is an international crime syndicate. [CLICK]
Time for a quiz: how many times did El Chapo escape prison? The answer is 2 times. [CLICK]
Joaquín began working with Héctor Luis Palma Salazar by the late 1970s. He helped Salazar
with map routes to move drugs through Sinaloa and into the US. [CLICK] He later joined
Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo’s cartel named Guadalajara Cartel, but Joaquín founded his own
cartel in 1988 after Gallardo’s arrest. In 1989 Felix Gallardo’s arrest leads to split in his cartel.
Guzmán and associates take over a faction that evolves into the Sinaloa Cartel. [CLICK] May
24, 1993: Gunmen kills Mexican cardinal Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo in the Guadalajara
airport. Prosecutors say the Tijuana drug cartel, another offshoot of the Guadalajara Cartel,
mistook him for Guzmán in a bungled assassination attempt. [CLICK]
In 1995: Guzmán is convicted and sentenced to 20 years in prison. [CLICK]
On January 19, 2001: Guzmán escapes from one of Mexico’s two top-security prisons, in
Jalisco state, allegedly in a laundry cart. [CLICK]
On February 22, 2014: Mexican marines captured Guzmán in a condo in Mazatlán after he
eluded them for days through tunnels in Culiacan. [CLICK]
On July 11, 2015: Guzmán escapes from the country’s top-security prison in Mexico State
through a mile-long tunnel. [CLICK]
In January 2016: He is captured a third time in a bloody raid at a home in Los Mochis. [CLICK]
In January 2017: Guzmán is extradited to the US and placed in a federal prison in New York
City.
Guzmán faces 17 counts, including: drug trafficking, money laundering, kidnapping and
murder. [CLICK]
I am going to talk about the escape that happened in 2015, because I want to give my
opinion about the logic of the escape.
In July 2015 El Chapo escaped Mexico’s top-security prison, Altiplano Prison, through a mile-
long tunnel complete with ventilation and conveniently parked motorbike. [CLICK]
First, Guzmán is believed to have climbed down through a 2 by 2-foot hole underneath the
shower in his cell in the prison’s most secure wing. [CLICK]
The shower opening led to an elaborate tunnel almost a mile long, that’s like 1,5 kms. The
tunnel was equipped with lightening, ventilation and a motorcycle on rails that was probably
used to transport digging material and to cart the dirt out. [CLICK]
The tunnel led to a construction site with a bare-bones compound in the nearby
neighborhood of Santa Juanita, near the Mexican city of Toluca. [CLICK]
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