Drug Lord El Chapo Escapes Prison In Today's Memory, January 19, 2001

JAKARTA Memori hari ini, 23 tahun yang lalu, 19 Januari 2001, pembongng narkoba, Joaqu penyakit Archivaldo Guzmkah Loera (El Chapo) berhasil kabur dari penjara federal, Puente Grande di Meksiko. Keberhasil itu karena pemimpin Kelis Sinaloa itu telah menyuap hampir seluruh pegawai penjara.

Previously, El Chapo was the most feared and sought-after figure throughout Mexico. His reputation as a drug king booms everywhere. His selling products are scattered throughout the United States (US) to Europe.

Poverty sometimes becomes a 'pelecut' to work hard. The narrative was agreed by El Chapo. At first he was born and raised in the city of Badibarato. A city that is in the state of Sinaloa. El Chapo's life is familiar with life is difficult.

He became part of the poor in Badibaulato. He has worked daily as a farmer. He planted corn and marijuana to make a living. However, the profession did not make him satisfied. The desire to swerve to the black world is getting more and more prominent.

He joined the Guadalajara Cartel as a drug smuggler. Because, that's the only reasonable option to be able to get out of poverty. His business is getting honed in Guadalajara.

He learned a lot about drug smuggling. Even though the Guadalajara cartel disbanded in the 1980s. El Chapo's desire to build his own drug business empire also emerged. He looked at the Sinaloa Cartel as the right medium.

His leadership in Sinaloa is passionate. El Chapo is able to develop his smuggling business to spread abroad, from the US to Europe. This fact is because El Chapo's courage uses a variety of new ways to smuggle drugs (political drugs, heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine), from underground tunnels to creative packaging.

The drug smuggling brings great results. El Chapo is also rich. However, that wealth did not make him forget himself. El Chapo set aside part of his income to help residents in Sinaloa develop. The act of distributing money earned him the nickname Robin Hood of Mexico.

In the capital of Mexico's Sinaloa, Culiacan, El Chapo is known as a kind of local hero Robin Hood. All because El Chapo is relatively generous towards some (in fact, very few) people help him. He grew up poor, growing corn and marijuana.

"Over time he built a large underground tunnel to smuggle cocaine into Arizona. Later he gathered a fleet of boats, trucks and aircraft that made him one of the most searched drug dealers in the world," explained Max G. Manwaring in the bookGangs, Pseudo-millimeters, and Other Modern Mercenaries (2012).

The drug group of the Sinaloa Cartel, Mexico, Joaquwas Archivaldo Guzm Marijuana Loera (El Chapo) peeked from the window. (Wikimedia Commons)

The lives carried out by El Chapo began to be troubling. The crimes committed were due to the hoarding drug business. He was also arrested in Guetemala in 1993. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison. All because of the murder, bribery, and drug trafficking carried out by the Sinaloa Cartel.

This condition made him have to languish in federal prison Fuente Grande, Mexico. His life in prison does not show El Chapo as regretting his actions. The narrative, El Chapo actually lives comfortably in prison. There is nothing El Chapo cannot buy, including the loyalty of prison employees.

At its peak, El Chapo chose to escape from prison on January 19, 2001. El Chapo escaped with the help of a corrupt prison employee who took him into custody through a clothing basket. El Chapo's escape then became big news in Mexico, then the world.

Puente Grande's maximum-security convict should be one of Mexico's strictest prisons. Two guards for each inmate, hundreds of isolation cells, sophisticated video surveillance. There is only one way out for El Chapo, who is serving a 20-year sentence as one of the largest cocaine smugglers in the US.

"He bribed a prison employee to escape. El Chapo needed a lot of help to escape on January 19, and he got it. Someone opened his secure phone. Someone disabled the surveillance camera. Someone smuggled it into a washing truck, and someone took it out of Mexico," explained Tim Weiner in his writing on The New York Times page entitled Mexican Jail Easy to Fleet: Just Pay Up (2001).