Ariana Fajardo Orshan said in July after the notorious Sinaloa leader was sentenced in a New York court to life in prison. AdvertisementLaw enforcement officials and the media alike had long portrayed El Chapo as Mexico’s public enemy No. With his profitable drug-smuggling empire and two daring escapes from Mexican prisons, Guzman was worth billions of dollars and clearly wielded wide influence. But many experts maintain that Guzman was never the sole head of the Sinaloa cartel, and was rather the leader of one powerful faction within the group. “This is not a vertically integrated organization where everybody has the same uniform,” he said of the Sinaloa cartel.

Source: Los Angeles Times October 20, 2019 01:41 UTC