That the Americans can be trusted to hold El Chapo is precisely why the Mexican government agreed to extradite him in 2017, after years of grandstanding.Įven in his tiny cell, El Chapo looms large in the North American imagination, like Pablo Escobar once did. There will be no mile-long tunnel dug under his room, like in 2015 at the Altiplano prison just west of Mexico City no laundry cart getaway, as in the 2001 jailbreak from Puente Grande prison in Jalisco. federal government and tried from November 2018 until February 2019.Įl Chapo will not escape from the ADX, which has housed illustrious jailmates such as Timothy McVeigh and Ted Kaczynski. The case was brought against him by the U.S. He was whisked off to this icy stronghold in 2019, when the Eastern District court of New York sentenced him to life plus thirty years on murder and drug charges. Scoring one last favor, he might have gotten a room with a view out of the so-called “Alcatraz of the Rockies,” Colorado’s ADX supermax prison. He spends twenty-three hours a day there, with nothing to look at but a black-and-white television and a four-inch window. Simon & Schuster, 448 pages.Īt this moment, Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán is likely sitting in a soundproof, eighty-four-square-foot cell. The Untold Story of the World’s Most Infamous Drug Lord by Noah Hurowitz.
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