El Chapo: Mexican Drug Lord Billionaire 'Shot Dead'

Paddy Samurai · 22-02-2013 2:42pm #1

The world's most powerful drug lord, Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzman, has been killed in a gun battle between drug gangs, Guatemalan authorities suspect.
The 58-year-old head of the Sinaloa cartel is thought to have been among the bodies left after the shoot-out in a remote rural area of Peten, in Guatemala.
He has been the most powerful drug lord since his rival was captured in 2003 and since 2009 has been named every year by Forbes as one of the world’s most powerful people with an estimated fortune of $1bn.

They usually all end up the same way.Escobar was the same. Greed or plain dumb?.
You would think if you had a Billion dollars ,you would be smart enough to get out before its too late , and emigrate somewhere with no extradition.

Guzman convened a meeting..........discussed killing Rodolfo Carrillo Fuentes, who was in charge of the Juárez Cartel.........Rodolfo and his wife were killed.
With this act, Guzmán was the first to break the nonaggression "pact" the major cartels had agreed to, setting in motion the fighting between cartels for drug routes that has claimed more than 50,000 lives since December 2006

Probably thousands more wll die in this new power vacuum.But hopefully not.

http://news.sky.com/story/1055480/el-chapo-mexican-drug-lord-shot-dead

super_furry · 22-02-2013 2:43pm

I really hope El Chapo translates as 'The Chap'.

Chips Lovell · 22-02-2013 2:45pm

Translates more or less as Shortie

super_furry · 22-02-2013 2:47pm

Awww. I had this great image of a Mexican gangster who dresses like and has all the affectations of an English gentleman.

SunnyDub1 · 22-02-2013 2:49pm

I thought "El Chapo" was only a fancy name given to the bad guy in gangster movies

Chuck Stone · 22-02-2013 2:50pm

The 'war' on drugs people has been such a catastrophic failure.

antodeco · 22-02-2013 2:51pm

Is his surname pronouced like the way Ironman's is, GuzMan, or is it rolled together so sounds like guzmin

Seachmall · 22-02-2013 2:53pm

What was he doing in a gun battle?

Talk about micromanagement hell.

not yet · 22-02-2013 2:55pm

RIP El Champo...you will be missed.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 22-02-2013 2:57pm

Most bosses don't leave because it's their life, they enjoy wielding power and terror. I imagine it stops being about the money eventually. It's life on the edge and it must be exhilarating for some. At the end of it all though it usually won't end sweet, deep down they must know that.

BillyMitchel · 22-02-2013 3:07pm

Wonder if they'd give me the drugs he's left behind, even a quarter of them.

ejmaztec · 22-02-2013 3:08pm

You don't find those Glaxo Smith Kline drug-lords getting involved in shoot outs.

Paddy Samurai · 22-02-2013 3:10pm

BillyMitchel wrote: »

Wonder if they'd give me the drugs he's left behind, even a quarter of them.

I'll take 1% of his money ,if no one else wants it.:)

Thats if they can find it?.

markie29 · 22-02-2013 3:10pm

He has been in hiding since escaping from a Mexican prison in a laundry cart in 2001.

laughed at this!

22-02-2013 3:14pm

It's rare that I say this - but I've no sympathy for him. When you read what some of those cartels have been responsible for in Mexico.. it makes you wonder how we're even the same species.

Duggy747 · 22-02-2013 3:14pm

One thing about Mexican gangs is that they like to mix it up when killing / torturing each other.

If it's not beheading with a chainsaw or chopping many people up to pieces at once and stuffing their bits into vans, then it's skinning the heads in one piece so they have a fancy mask to leave hanging on a pole.

Those wacky criminals, whatever will they get up to next....

DEFTLEFTHAND · 22-02-2013 3:20pm

Deleted User wrote: »

It's rare that I say this - but I've no sympathy for him. When you read what some of those cartels have been responsible for in Mexico.. it makes you wonder how we're even the same species.

You couldn't have sympathy for him, you live by the sword you die by the sword, he chose the life and knew the potential consequences. Mexico is a basket case, the power struggle to determine his successor will see more blood. It's a vicious cycle and it's going to continue for the foreseeable future imo.

krudler · 22-02-2013 3:23pm

Paddy Samurai wrote: »

They usually all end up the same way.Escobar was the same. Greed or plain dumb?.
You would think if you had a Billion dollars ,you would be smart enough to get out before its too late , and emigrate somewhere with no extradition.

sure Walter White only wanted 700 grand, look how that turned out

mikom · 22-02-2013 3:26pm

Vladimir Kurtains wrote: »

Translates more or less as Shortie

Say hello to my little fwiend!!

AnonoBoy · 22-02-2013 3:26pm

Kindest hello Sir.

My name is Pablo 'El Chico' Guzman, dearest nephew of the beloved El Chapo. I have found your name on the internet when I prayed to God for a trustworthy and most esteemed person to help me.

We mourn El Chapo and his death every day. But now the Mexican governmente put more of his bank accounts in the freezer. Please to be helping me transfer the money from the loyal bank here before the governmente or the other cartels come and take it.

In exchange for your loyal and trustworthy support we will give you 3% of his most esteemed fortune.

Scammingly Sincerely,

Pablo.

Paddy Samurai · 22-02-2013 3:26pm

markie29 wrote: »

He has been in hiding since escaping from a Mexican prison in a laundry cart in 2001.

laughed at this!

Looks like he bought the prison before he left.

The police say Guzmán carefully masterminded his escape plan, wielding influence over almost everyone in the prison, including the facility's director. He allegedly had the prison guards on his payroll, smuggled contraband into the prison and received preferential treatment from the staff. In addition to the prison-employee accomplices, police in Jalisco were paid off to ensure he had at least 24 hours to get out of the state and stay ahead of the military manhunt. The story told to the guards being bribed was that Joaquín Guzmán was smuggling gold out of the prison, ostensibly extracted from rock at the inmate workshop. The escape allegedly cost Joaquín $2.5 million

Thats the problem.A lot of Mexicans are poor and with the crazy sums of money involved they can buy most people .And those they can't,who are brave enough to stand up them they kill.

Sunnyisland · 22-02-2013 5:13pm

I have heard that our Ming is deeply upset...

Joke joke joke

goose2005 · 22-02-2013 6:53pm

antodeco wrote: »

Is his surname pronouced like the way Ironman's is, GuzMan, or is it rolled together so sounds like guzmin

guss-MAN

Gummy Panda · 22-02-2013 7:21pm

goose2005 wrote: »

guss-MAN

I'm getting images of Wind Man from Mega Man 6

mbur · 22-02-2013 7:29pm

markie29 wrote: »

He has been in hiding since escaping from a Mexican prison in a laundry cart in 2001.

laughed at this!

Paddy Samurai wrote: »

Looks like he bought the prison before he left. ....

Should have stayed there and run the operation from inside like the irish lads do. A hell of a lot safer. Especially when you own the joint.

Rabbo · 22-02-2013 8:14pm

:( lyk dis if u cryd evritym

pragmatic1 · 22-02-2013 8:27pm

Good stuff. Hope it was slow and painful.

enricoh · 22-02-2013 8:39pm

a lad down the pub said he doesnt give a f@{k who kills who as long as the price of his coke n weed doesnt go up as a result!

Spore · 22-02-2013 9:10pm

Not confirmed just yet...

Backing down from the previous day’s assertions, Lopez apologized for the frenzy of speculation that Guzman was killed in Thursday’s incident, saying it was based in part on mistaken information and an unconfirmed report of a physical resemblance between one body and the fugitive drug lord.

http://www.latimes.com/news/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-guatemala-shootout-guzman-20130222,0,2471988.story

though we live in hope the scum lord is dead...

Fart · 22-02-2013 9:51pm

Goodnight Sweet Prince.

StinkyMunkey · 22-02-2013 9:58pm

They said this guy was worth over a billion, guess he was a tight ass when it came to paying for his personal security.

Anyway, the world is a better place without him, pity he will be replaced by someone just as bad if not worse.

El Chapo: Mexican Drug Lord Billionaire 'Shot Dead'

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