Exclusive images of the place of detention of El Chapo Guzman

The Associated Press indicates that Joaquin " Chapo " Guzman was captured in a hotel in Mazatlan in a joint process between U.S. forces and the Attorney General 's Office ( PGR ) of Mexico . He was in the company of a woman. According to sources cited by the agency , was captured alive during the night in the coastal city in the state of Sinaloa. The Mexican Ministry of the Interior announced a press conference this afternoon. A U.S. official , who spoke on condition of anonymity , said Guzman was captured by soldiers of the Secretary of the Navy ( Semar ) . The official also stressed the support of the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA ) . "This is huge, it's big. Many said it would never be possible to capture it but it did," he said. Guzmán is the most wanted man by the DEA and faces multiple charges for drug trafficking and murder. His empire extends across North America, but also reaches Europe and Australia . The Sinaloa Cartel is one of the major criminal organizations in the world and acts in the bloody drug war that has plagued Mexico for several years . His full name is Joaquin Guzman Loera Archivaldo , is 57 years old (born April 4, 1957 ) and is the main drug dealer free Mexico , following the arrest of Osiel Cardenas of the Gulf Cartel leader , He had been arrested in 1993 when I was in Guatemala , but in 2001 escaped from a maximum security prison in Jalisco. From there , his rise was meteoric and Forbes became one of the richest people on the planet. However, shortly after he was expelled from it by editorial decision . The Sinaloa Cartel , Guzman controls drug trafficking in nearly half of the country. Much of the rest is in the hands of the Zetas cartel . U.S. law enforcement authorities claim that no other cartel has the international cocaine distribution networks available to the Sinaloa , which is also introducing methamphetamine into Mexico and Central America. According to reports , Guzmán was hiding in the remote mountainous area of his home state of Sinaloa. Sometimes it was said elsewhere, even in Argentina for a while. Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina said he had reports that Guzman was recently in your country. His handling of the violent cartel Mexican state of Chihuahua , where Ciudad Juarez dangerous , more Durango , Sinaloa , Nayarit and parts of Jalisco , Guanajuato , Zacatecas , Chiapas , Sonora and Baja California is located. The DEA says that this group is already installed in Costa Rica . And the Colombian authorities confirmed the link of the criminal gang with the FARC .

• 2014-02-22T19:02:46+00:00
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