Filmmaker Asks: Did They Really Capture 'El Chapo'? Kim Janssen - Sun Times
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¿Es El Chapo? - Documentary asks the question, Is "El Chapo" really behind bars? (drlaffodaypcs)

It’s more than a year since Mexican authorities caught Chicago’s “Public Enemy No. 1.”

Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, whose powerful Sinaloa cartel supplies the majority of the cocaine and heroin that fuels much of Chicago's gun violence, was nabbed in the Mexican resort town of Mazatlan without a single shot being fired.

Or was he?

If you’re among the sizable group of conspiracy theorists who believe that — just like Elvis, Jimmy Hoffa and Tupac —  ”El Chapo” still walks among us, a new movie might fuel your paranoia.

Filmmaker Charlie Minn’s movie “Es El Chapo?,” which translates to “Is It El Chapo?,” is based on the premise that the man captured in a cheap hotel room on Feb. 22 last year, then paraded in front of cameras by Mexican authorities as he was frogmarched into a military helicopter, was not Guzman.

Or if it was, he was in on a scam with his captors, “and they let him go almost immediately,” Minn says.

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