Five years have passed since Joaquín “ el Chapo ” Guzmán was last arrested and extradited from Mexico to the United States and has been in a maximum security prison since July , in a cell where it is locked 23 hours a day which has no sound, measures 7 feet by 12 feet and where he is serving a life sentence.
But business has never been better for the Sinaloa Cartel (CDS) according to official data from the United States , security analysts and their own lawyers, reported Business Insider .
“So if El Chapo is locked up for 23 hours a day in a 7-foot-by – 12 – food soundproof cell but drug busts are at an all-time high, what exactly was the point in arresting him? ” My latest for @ BusinessInsider https://t.co/GVRm2DEWoF
– Luis Chaparro (@LuisKuryaki) June 17, 2021
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Based on fiscal years, cocaine seizures in the United States increased by more than 52, pounds in 2016 To over 62, 000 on 2017. In 2020, 58, 006 pounds of cocaine in the United States. While in April of 2021 the total was 100, 324 pounds.
The contrast is monumental because in 2015, with Chapo Guzmán still at large, were seized 29, 000 pounds of methamphetamine and five years later, seizures in the United States have risen to , 600 pounds.
Given this, the publication questions what has been the point of keeping Chapo locked up if the drug reaches the United States more than They never and even interviewed Michael Schneider, one of the attorneys for Guzmán Loera in the United States.
“The case of Guzmán in Mexico was relevant to me because he was not properly represented,” d ijo. “Politics was closely tied to his case. It was basically political, ”said the lawyer.
He also said he was sure that the data on the greater arrival of drugs to the United States shows that El Chapo was not the leader but part of the organization .
“I do not believe that Mr. Guzmán is a boss of the mafia, a leader of a criminal organization” (…) “He could not be the leader of a global criminal syndicate” since It is “extremely difficult for someone like Guzmán , without education, to run such a company,” he told Insider.
And while the drug continues to circulate uncontrolled in the United States, blood in Mexico has not decreased either as homicides have increased steadily in recent years, going from about , 000 per year in 2014 to 15, 000 on 2017 and almost 20, 000 on 2020 according to the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi) of Mexico.
“If you think that the Sinaloa Cartel is a cartel , has a lot to learn “(…)” There are many things that people describe as more organized than it really is, “said Schneider about the organization of the criminal group that the authorities accuse once headed the Chapo .
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