Sinaloa, Mexico has been for decades the most prolific cradle for Mexican drug lords and also the area where Joaquín, his closest friends and associates, as well as his most staunch enemies were all born. In the midst of constant persecution by Mexican and foreign governments, authorities and USA agencies (many of them permeated by their talented and multimillionaire corrupting power), during five decades of criminal delinquency (including innumerable trips, monumental illicit businesses, agreements and multinational tentacles, blood and honor alliances, bloody wars and betrayals with competitors, old partners and close relatives and two spectacular maximum security jail escapes), Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán has been the architect and undisputed leader of that empire called the Sinaloa Cartel and the Confederation of the Pacific, which encompasses many alliances in several countries throughout the world.
This criminal is uniquely imprinted: ambitious, courageous and reckless when he requires it, and on a daily basis – patient, observant and cautious. A conciliator par excellence, employing violence as a last resort, but relentlessly a methodical and innovative businessman with a global vision, a loving and dedicated father, son and brother, collector of multiple romances and conquests.
Faced with the violent and significant losses of his younger brother and his beloved son, the death of his confidant and godfather and eternal counselor, Don Juan, as well as many of his closest friends and allies. Despite being at the very top of the business of his empire, Joaquin travels a lot,carrying within him, complex and emotional personal states-of being and constantly dragged by his unconquerable desire to remain next to his twin daughters as well as his other children. He decides to abandon his natural habitat, that of the rugged Sierra mountains and goes to live in the urban part of Sinaloa with his family. This creates a favorable scenario for his new capture, which materializes as a product of immense efforts by the North American agencies in cooperation with thespecial forces of the Mexican Navy.
This modern “Papillon” flees once again from the maximum security prison, his spectacular evasion is carried out through a long and well planned tunnel, ridiculing the authorities and generating a huge media attention worldwide.
After six months of frenzied jousting, constant pursuit by the authorities and a meeting El Chapo holds with lofty Hollywood characters in order to plan a movie about his life, the mythical capo is captured again.
After a year of imprisonment, legal breakdowns and loose ends that are permeated by the new US geopolitical map. The USA and the confused and obscure managements of the corrupt Mexican state, finally extradite Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán to the USA and brought before the federal justice. It will not be until April of 2018 that Joaquin will get a hearing in the USA, so he will remain in seclusion in the New York prison until then.