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Escaped Mexican drug lord no saint, but lesser evil at home

Jul 25, 11:07 AM (ET) [ Retrieved 10:30 AM Saturday 25 July 2015 Pacific Time USA ]

By MARK STEVENSON


BADIRAGUATO, Mexico (AP) — People living in the hometown of drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman have heard stories of his benevolence: gifts of medicine for the poor, deliveries of drinking water to storm-stricken towns. But finding anyone who's actually received or even seen such a gift is another matter.

In Badiraguato, the small mountain town that is part of Guzman's rags-to-crime riches mythology, none of the two dozen people interviewed by The Associated Press could point out evidence of his legendary largesse.

"I don't see a single building producing jobs, a single piece of public works, a soccer field, a sewer, a school, water systems, a clinic or hospital, not a single one that you can say was built by drug traffickers or their money," Mayor Mario Valenzuela said.

If Guzman or his cartel had invested in their hometowns, he said, "they'd look different: They would have paved roads or drainage systems, but they don't."

Guzman's escape on July 11 from a prison near Mexico City has focused attention again on Badiraguato, the county seat of a township that includes the hamlet of La Tuna, where El Chapo's mother still lives.

The roads to La Tuna are still washed-out dirt tracks, and Badiraguato itself has none of the flashy accoutrements of money — luxury car dealerships, palatial mausoleums, acres of fancy, gated communities of new homes, or dozens of street money-changers offering cheap dollars — that are abundant in Culiacan, the state capital, 1 1/2 hours away. The town's big projects include a new balcony for the town hall that looks out over the sleepy square dominated by a 19th-century church, where residents seek shade from the punishing Sinaloa sun.

Tucked into the foothills where the coastal stretches of flat corn and tomato fields meet the imposing mountains of the Sierra Madre, Badiraguato remains mired in poverty, Valenzuela acknowledges that many of the township's residents make a living growing marijuana or opium poppies.

Guzman grew up here, the son of a poor famer. His rise as a crime boss has been surrounded by mythology, a Hollywood version of an old-school Mafioso — ruthless, but yet honorable.










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Philanthropists name Gates Foundation nation's wealthiest

Published: Monday, Aug. 23 1999 12:00 a.m. MDT

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Microsoft founder Bill Gates, the world's richest man, has created the country's wealthiest foundation, according to the Chronicle of Philanthropy.

Gates and his wife, Melinda, have consolidated their two charitable foundations and donated an additional $6 billion to the newly named Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, bringing its total worth to $17.1 billion, according to a report published on the Chronicle's Web site Sunday and confirmed by a co-chair of the Gates Foundation.The couple decided to merge the William H. Gates Foundation, named after Gates' father, and the Gates Learning Foundation so they could broaden their focus on learning and global health, said Patty Stonesifer, foundation co-chairwoman.

The move catapults the Seattle-based foundation to the top of the Chronicle's list of wealthiest charitble foundations, the newspaper said.










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FUENTES: Yes, absolutely. The U.S. wants him in and I think seven judicial districts right now. So there are a number of indictments that want him brought to the U.S. to stand trial for racketeering, including drug trafficking and murder charges. So he would undoubtedly be sends to life without parole and put in a most stringent condition in the U.S. super max prison.

But Mexico's too proud. They don't want to admit they can't handle him. They don't want to admit that there's corruption or difficulty maintaining their criminal justice system. So when the U.S. asked to extradite him, they were pretty much laughed off by the attorney general who said, well, we're going to have him in prison for the next three or 400 years, you can wait until then.

They have this false pride down there and I worked with them and tried to work with them.










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Daughter to Seattle fed prosecutor's killer: 'I'm not afraid of you'

By LEVI PULKKINEN, SEATTLEPI.COM STAFF

Updated 09:40 p.m., Wednesday, September 28, 2011


Nearly a decade after the murder of her father, Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas Wales, Amy Wales has words for him -- and for whoever committed the crime.

For her father, she has love and a hole in her heart, and the promise that she and her brother will never give up on him.

For the assassin who shot Wales as he sat typing inside the family’s Queen Anne home – a man who has escaped justice since the October 2001 slaying despite the efforts of the FBI and Seattle Police Department – Amy Wales offered a simple declaration.

“I am not afraid of you,” Amy Wales said Wednesday, flanked by her brother Tom Wales, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and U.S. Attorney for Western Washington Jenny Durkan.

Wales’ children addressed the media as part of a kickoff for the most ambitious public outreach campaign to date aimed at bringing the killer to justice.

Holder was on hand in Seattle to announce the renewed effort, which will include billboard and media announcements meant to encourage anyone with information to contact the FBI at 1-800-CALL-FBI or WalesTips@ic.fbi.gov. King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg, Seattle Police Chief John Diaz and Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn were on hand for the show of force, as were former Mayor Greg Nickels and Seattle City Councilman Tim Burgess.

Wales, a federal prosecutor of 18 years assigned to the white collar crime unit, was seated at a desk in the basement of his home on Oct. 11, 2001, when a gunman fired on him through a window. He died the following day.

“We will never give up our search for the truth,” Holder said. “This is an active case. This is an active investigation. We continue to constantly and aggressively pursue leads.”










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LOPEZ: On January 19th, 2001, Chapo Guzman escaped from the maximum security prison in Puente Grande Jalisco in western Mexico. Back then his plan was simpler. He escaped in a laundry cart and remained on the lam for 13 years until February 2nd, 2014, when he was captured in Sinaloa apparently with intelligence provided by the DEA and the U.S. marshal service.

(END VIDEOTAPE) LOPEZ: And Fredricka, attorney general Loretta Lynch issued a statement related to the Chapo Guzman escape and this is what she said. The U.S. government, and I quote, "stands ready to work with our Mexican partners to provide any assistance that may help support his swift recapture." That is the official reaction or the unofficial reaction, obviously, and much harsher terms, 13 years is what it took to find one of the most wanted men in the world and now he's escaped again.

[14:05:18] WHITFIELD: All right. Juan Carlos Lopez, thank you so much.

So El Chapo is known for being the -- one of the most violent and brutal of Mexico's drug kingpins, but he was also known for his Robin Hood reputation in his hometown.

Sara Ganim joins me now with more on that.

So what more can you tell us about this man known as El Chapo and the reputation that he's had?

SARA GANIM, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good afternoon, Fred. Quite the reputation. You know, here in the United States, the reason that this is so important, we talk about illicit drugs here, heroin, cocaine. It's likely that those drugs, if you encounter them in the United States, have come from his cartel, one of the largest in the world, by some accounts the largest in the world, and it's not the first time that he escaped from behind bars of a Mexican jail. Take a listen.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

GANIM (voice-over): They call him El Chapo, or shorty for his small 5'6" frame, but his legend is enormous. And now the world's most powerful and deadly drug trafficking kingpin has broken out of prison in Mexico, again.

Joaquin Guzman is the notorious drug boss who runs the Sinaloa cartel, widely believed to be the biggest supplier of heroin and cocaine in the United States. Authority say this time he escaped through a hole in the shower area of the Altiplano prison.

MONTE ALEJANDRO RUBIDO, NATIONAL SECURITY COMMISSION (through translator): The tunnel is a vertical pass about 10 meters deep and had a ladder and stairs. This tunnel has PVC tubing, ventilation and lighting.

GANIM: His latest escape adding to El Chapo's legend, in Mexico he's a towering figure of intrigue, the subject of books, songs and folklore. And he's wanted on both sides of the border. In the U.S. on federal trafficking and organized crime charges. In fact, U.S. officials wanted him extradited, fearing exactly what happened, that he'd pull off another escape.

REP. MICHAEL MCCAUL (R), TEXAS: When El Chapo Guzman escaped captivity, prison, in 2001. He has 12 years left to his sentence. But I'm concerned about that happening again in Mexico. GANIM: Born into a poor family in the Sinaloa state when the drug

trade was evolving, Guzman amassed a powerful empire, one that he continued running from behind bars after his first arrest in 1993. His reputation only grew as he spent 13 years on the run after escaping from prison in 2001. Sneaking out in a laundry cart, in a plot that allegedly cost him $2.5 million in bribes. He was caught and rearrested just last year at this resort in his home state of Sinaloa. Now a massive manhunt for the cartel leader is under way, yet again.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

GANIM: Now, obviously U.S. officials not happy about this escape. It's clear that he was able to control his cartel from behind bars, but being outside and having and enjoying that freedom and protection from the people who work for him obviously gives him a lot more power and gives the cartel a lot more power. U.S. officials had wanted to extradite him, to bring him back here on charges and hold him here out of fear that this would happen again, Fred, and then it did.

WHITFIELD: All right. Thanks so much, Sara Ganim.

We are going to talk more about this now with CNN law enforcement analyst and former FBI assistant director Tom Fuentes and award- winning staff writer for "the New Yorker" Patrick Keefe who has written extensively also about El Chapo.

All right. So Patrick, you first. Who is El Chapo in terms of, you know, the enormity and the influence of the whole drug cartel trafficking business, and how is it he became so powerful, even behind bars?

PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE, STAFF WRITER, THE NEW YORKER: He's an amazing character. I mean this is a guy who grew up basically a farm boy, who by most accounts is more or less illiterate even today. He never really got much of an education. But he became during the 1970s a pretty formidable drug trafficker and escaped from prison once, as we head. And then when he was on the run, on the lam, actually really developed the Sinaloa cartel into the biggest drug cartel, I would say in history, and became responsible for a huge portion of the drugs that crossed the border into the United States every year.

WHITFIELD: And is there, I guess, a singular, you know, way to explain how it is he rose to the top as, you know, the most powerful of cartel leaders? What was it about him, his influence, the way he conducted business, especially after the way you mentioned he's still illiterate, he didn't have much education. What is the secret?

[14:10:05] KEEFE: Well, I think he is a very canny businessman. I mean, he's been very violent and he is certainly hasn't shied away from using violence. His organization is probably responsible for literally tens of thousands of murders over the last decade or so. But he's also a smart guy who put together a very intricate arrangements.










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TOM FUENTES, CNN LAW ENFORCEMENT ANALYST: Well, I think what we see in Mexico compared to the United States is when we talk about bribery or other reasons for corruption of police officers, corrections officers, other government officials, it's on a scale that we just can't imagine.

For example, you know, we have two guys escape from New York prison because they seduced a female employee and made friends with a couple of corrections officers. That's one thing. But in Mexico, what happens is that they threaten these officers or a guy like Guzman will say we're going to dip your kids in acid. We're going to dismember them. We're going to peel their skin off while they're alive, and they do it. And as mentioned, being responsible for tens of thousands of murders, that's nothing for them. At every level of their government they do that.

WHITFIELD: God. FUENTES: And so, even a police officer that wants to be honest or a

corrections officer that has integrity, suddenly when they're faced with their entire family, their children, spouse, parents, cousins, everybody that knows them being horribly tortured and murdered, it becomes a little bit different for them to take on and maintain their integrity.










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[17:05:24] TOM FUENTES, CNN LAW ENFORCEMENT ANALYST: Well, Poppy, his net worth is placed at over $1 billion. He's probably the leading organized crime figure in the world right now, it has been whether he's in jail or not in jail. It is irrelevant. He's still that powerful.

But we are talking about a different scale of corruption here or misconduct than what we see in the U.S. When we had Matt and Sweat escaped in New York, they seduced an employee, they had a couple of correction officers helped them, they had, you know, cut through a couple of pipes.

This guy, you know, he threatens the guards, he threatens police officers, politicians, journalists every day with if you cross him, he will behead your children. He will put them in acid. He will peel their skin off alive. And he does it. He has it ordered and it happens all the time. It's estimated he may have murdered or ordered the murders of more than 10,000 people, in the U.S. as well as in Mexico.

So this is not somebody playing around with prison officials. He pretty much controls what he wants to do. And they go along with it, they look the other way to keep their families alive.

HARLOW: And Joseph, to you, I mean, look. You've worked with some of these folks before in terms of being an attorney. Why is it that when he is in prison, when "El Chapo" is in prison, that he still has so much loyalty on the outside that as Tom says, they can carry out these horrific acts against other people's families in order to coheres those inside the prison to help him?

JOSEPH LOPEZ, ATTORNEY (via phone): It's all about the corruption. Wherever there's drugs there's corruption. And wherever there's corruption there's money. And wherever there's money there's greed. So, people are going to things they don't normally do because he has my daughter, ordered them to do it. He paid them to do it or as the other individual just said, threaten their families.

So, he can wield a lot of power. The organization is big. It's strong. And everybody knew this was going to happen. It's been called before. I'm sure Jack Riley, head of DEA, is going out of his mind right now. The U.S. warned Mexico about this. And I just see "El Chapo" going down in a shootout probably at the end. That is going to be a massive manhunt.



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