*Updated Mar. 29*
Guadalajara -
Perhaps the Chicago Crime Commission has been reading MGRR. The Chicago Connection: Sinaloa Cartel moves cocaine from Windy City to Australia. Today it labeled Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán "Public Enemy # 1."
It's the first time the Commission has used that moniker since the Prohibition-era struggle against American gangsters in the early 20th century, reported the Associated Press.
"Since the Commission was founded 94 years ago, no other criminal has so merited the title," said its president J.R. Davis today. This afternoon the CCC and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) will make a joint formal announcement of the designation.
The organization, which follows crime trends, picked Al Capone for its first "award" in 1930.
"In my opinion, Guzmán is the new Capone," said Davis. "But by comparison, really, Capone was an amateur."
The DEA claims that Guzmán's Sinaloa Cartel is the principal shipper of drugs, especially cocaine, to the Chicago area.
Guzmán escaped from a Mexican prison in January 2001 and has been on the lam since. The U.S. and Mexico have offered combined rewards of $7 million for his capture. He has been indicted several times in American courts, including last April in El Paso. In that case Guzmán faces allegations of drug smuggling, kidnapping, conspiracy, murder, money laundering and violations of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). The charges carry up to life imprisonment without parole. Twenty-two other key Sinaloa cartel operatives were also charged with him. El Chapo Guzmán indicted by feds in El Paso.
Guzmán is facing federal charges in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois as well.
Chicago is one of 1,286 American cities in which Mexican drug traffickers have a presence, according to the U.S. government. To distribute their products they work closely with an estimated 33,000 street gangs. Mexican drug cartels operate in 1,286 U.S. cities. But Chicago enjoys the dubious distinction of being the largest wholesale distribution center for the mega cartels.
"Here is where El Chapo converts his drugs into dollars," said Davis.
Guzmán's chief executioner was arrested just four days ago in Sinaloa, on Mexico's Pacific coast. Mexican marines arrest chief executioner for El Chapo Guzmán in Sinaloa state.
9:00 p.m. In his press conference today, portions of which were rebroadcast here this evening, Davis said "Guzmán and his cartel have killed at least 10,000 people. And before they killed them, many were brutally tortured. The fingerprints of Guzmán are all over the weapon that is killing thousands of Chicago kids, too, and that weapon is drugs." Added Davis, "What Capone was to beer and whiskey, Guzmán is to narcotics. Guzmán poses a far greater threat to this city than Al Capone ever did."
Mar. 26 - Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel enjoys 90% market domination in U.S.
Mar. 29 - A Mexican researcher has published a study which reports that the Sinaloa Cartel became a global enterprise by diversification in the manufacture and distribution of drugs, including cocaine, opiates, marijuana, designer drugs and above all methamphetamine. José Luis León Manríquez, a Ph.D. in political science at Colombia University in New York, concluded that the cartel controls a triangular market between Mexico, the United States and Asia. Dr. León found that Sinaloa has been a major producer and exporter of meth since the 1990s and enjoys a virtual monopoly on the drug in many countries, including 80% market domination in the U.S. according to a DEA analysis.
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