Guzmán’s Underground Underworld was his Undoing Where we’re going we don’t need roads. The one seminal innovation of el Chapo’s Sinaloa cartel is the drug tunnel. The Sinaloa cartel disrupted the traditional drug smuggling approach which bottlenecks at border crossings. In the best startup tradition, they simply ignored all the rules and regulations in their vertical and […]
The Futile Fugitive
Gambler’s Ruin, but for Hide and Seek The inevitable capture of el Chapo came sooner than some were expecting, but the outcome was never in doubt. On the wrong end of a nation wide manhunt of over 2500 personnel, including the assistance of the US intelligence community, el Chapo was living on borrowed time. Several narratives […]