A Mexican citizen arrested in April last year for carrying 28.6 pounds of cocaine said that the drug was "planted" by security elements at Lima airport.
The Sinaloa cartel leader transported cocaine from Colombia to Mexico, and then to the United States, using various means, according to U.S. court documents.
The guerrilla group FARC wanted to send it to the Sinaloa Cartel
"It is clear that we must keep up the pressure now that El Chapo is out to tackle any support network that he is using and is not on our list," said Andrea Gacki, acting deputy director of the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the U.S. Treasury Department.
'El Loco' was arrested in the department of Putumayo.
Vasily Kotosky Villarroel Ramírez, 43, and Robert Alexander Pinto Gil, 32, are accused of leading drug trafficking gangs linked to the Mexican cartel.
Dámaso López Núñez was head of Sinaloa's Judicial Police, prosecutor and deputy director of security of the Puente Grande penitentiary in Jalisco around the time Guzmán escaped from this maximum security prison.
According to information of the Narcotics Police, the Army and the Intelligence Directorate of Criminal Investigation and Interpol (Dijin) of Colombia obtained by El Tiempo, Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada is in charge of the business in Colombia.
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Roberto Saviano, author of "Gomorrah", said that Mexican cartels should be defined as mafia organizations, that can not exist without direct links with politics, entrepreneurs and the judiciary beyond simple bribery and corruption.
Hailed by supporters in the northwestern state of Sinaloa as a man with more heft than the president, El Chapo's audacious breakout from a maximum security prison through a tunnel has all but guaranteed his immortality in global crime-lore.