Life After El Chapo: Kingpin's Arrest Spells New Era in Mexican Drug War Jo Tuckman - The Guardian
go to original February 23, 2015

¿Es El Chapo? - Documentary asks the question, Is "El Chapo" really behind bars? (drlaffodaypcs)

The arrest of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán on 22 February 2014 was hailed by the Mexican and US authorities as the one of the biggest blows to the drug trade in decades. But a year on, the core business of Guzmán’s Sinaloa cartel seems hardly affected. “As long as there are people who want the drugs this will never stop, whoever goes to prison,” the seer said.

Overall, seizures of drugs from Mexico heading into the US remain much as they were before Guzmán’s arrest. The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has reported only small changes in the way the cartel operates. And after a brief burst of triumphalism in the days after Guzmán’s arrest, the Mexican government now rarely mentions the Sinaloa cartel at all.

“Chapo’s capture has not produced any major changes here,” said Ismael Bojórquez, the director of the Sinaloa investigative weekly Ríodoce. “The cartel structure continues to work just as before.”

Not that everybody in Sinaloa accepts that view.

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