El Chapo’s Trump-size ego fueled by Hollywood aspirations to see himself on the silver screen led to his capture in Los Mochis in Northern Sinaloa by Mexican Marines.
The world’s richest and most powerful drug lord is now on his way to the United States as soon as Mexican officials milk his arrest for as much publicity as possible, including giant “We Got Him” headlines.
But how his capture went down is like a Mexican telenovela involving a beautiful actress, an American actor and selfies taken during an evening of merriment with mariachis.
Mexico is sending El Chapo packing to a prison cell in the United States.
The country is embarrassed by Chapo’s Houdini escapes with the Mexican Marines in hot pursuit, and baffled Mexican officials left behind with red faces and trying to explain how he got out of a maximum security prison, again.
On Friday, the Mexican flag that has been torn, tattered and bloodied by the cartels was flying high after a tweet by President Enrique Pena Nieto.
“Mission Accomplished,” Nieto announced via Twitter. “We have him.”
Yeah, but El Chapo made it easy because the Mexican billionaire thought he was invincible.
His ego got in the way, and he started to believe the dozens Mexican corridosor ballads celebrating his exploits and escapes.
After he shelled out money to have a tunnel constructed to break him out of Altiplano prison cell, many believed El Chapo was in South America and quietly living in some small fishing village.
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Instead, he reportedly decided to stay in Mexico to become a Mexican Martin Scorsese with Actress Kate del Castillo and Actor Sean Penn, playing the role of journalist.
Also El Chapo kept sending tweets about his family and sticking it to the rest of the world.
He acted as thought he was wanted for unpaid traffic tickets in Mexico City.
This is the titillating headline on the Daily Mail:El Chapo’s moll: How trusted Mexican actress Kate del Castillo brokered deal for Sean Penn to interview cartel boss… But ultimately proved his femme fatale.
In an article published in The Rolling Stone and written by Sean Penn titled “El Chapo Speaks,” the notorious drug dealer talks about escape. Penn interviewed El Chapo with an annoying rooster crowing in the background.
Chapo couldn’t stay off social media either. The drug lord allegedly posted two tweets two days before his capture.
The first said he was ‘busy and happy’ and enjoying life with his children. A second said he loved his family and valued people who loved them, but that ‘everyone else can go f*** their mothers,’ according to Daily Mail.
Bad moves.
First, he underestimated the latest, secret technology that the DEA, FBI and U.S. Marshals use to catch fugitives and monitor and take out Middle East terrorists. Information gathered by these electronic gadgets and tracking devices were shared with Mexican authorities.
Also there was a $5 million dollar reward hanging over his head.
Worse, El Chapo thumbed his nose at the Mexican Marines who apparently took it personal and went after him with a vengeance after his prison break.
In a TV report, the stone-faced Marines can be seen taking prideful steps as they escort El Chapo. One has his hand tightly clamped on a slightly bowed Chapo’s neck while they parade him in front of TV cameras and into a waiting helicopter. The marines momentarily stop walking and forcibly turn the head of El Chapo to show off their prize catch.
El Chapo didn’t look happy when he faced the cameras. He was pissed.
Long, Drawn Out Extradition
It will take months before El Chapo is extradited to the U.S.
If El Chapo stays in Mexico too long fighting extradition, he will be desperate to bust out of prison knowing that where he is going the sun is going to be restricted to one hour a day, if that, once he crosses the border into the United States.
I believe Chapo’s henchmen will try to free him by sending dozens of guerilla-trained goons with heavy weapons and armor to break Chapo from prison for the third time. Afterwards, the plan will be to immediately fly him out of the area by a helicopter. This time head to South America or the Caribbean.
This violent criminal who is responsible for tens of thousands of deaths has nothing to lose.
In the U.S., Chapo will be convicted of a litany of felony charges backed by a mountain of evidence. He will be sent to the federal Super Max prison in Colorado and live in isolation inside a steel and concrete tomb that’s made to look like a prison cell.
Occasionally, he will be brought out from isolation to get a taste of some sunlight to remind him that life, the world and the drug empire he created will continue without him.
The Feds and Chapo
The feds are licking their chops and can’t wait until Chapo crosses the border.
What the World’s Most Notorious Drug Dealer knows could dismantle, disrupt or seriously harm the drug trade throughout the world — He knows about the drug routes, warehouses, businesses involved in the narcotics trade, banks, bankers and countries, drug tunnels, money laundering and much, much more.
El Chapo is a treasure trove of information.
During his imprisonment in Mexico, El Chapo talked to Mexican authorities. Reportedly, he gave them information about rival drug cartels.
So after the DEA strokes his ego, laugh at his lame jokes, treat him like a celebrity and with a lot of respect, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman will start talking.
But first the feds have to add a few incentives, extra candy bars, maybe, a Happy Meal and perhaps, a TV set in his cell to watch the telenovelas. I wouldn’t be surprised if they hook him up to cable if the stuff he tells them leads to major busts throughout the U.S.
One of the world’s richest men loves his creature comforts. But he loves his family much more and will not offer much until they are out of Mexico and living in the U.S.
In exchange, the feds will want a large chunk of El Chapo’s drug money — restitution.
Sounds crazy? No, because El Chapo can be could be a one-man wrecking crew that will send narco-trafficos and their enablers scattering and hiding like kitchen cockroaches.
El Chapo’s Trump-size ego fueled by Hollywood aspirations to see himself on the silver screen led to his capture in Los Mochis in Northern Sinaloa by Mexican Marines.
Mexico is sending El Chapo packing to a prison cell in the United States. 