- Incarcerated Mexican drug lord in charge of the Sinaloa cartel.
- Called “El Chapo”, or “shorty” due to his height (5’6”).
- Born into poverty, Chapo started cultivating opium poppy and marijuana when he was a teenager.
- The Sinaloa cartel transports billions of dollars worth of drugs from Mexico to the U.S.; Chapo himself is a billionaire (Forbes estimates $1B).
- Although recently extradited to New York, Chapo has escaped Mexican prisons twice before (2001 and 2014).
Summarizing Your World.
