Join us for our 10:00 AM, March 17, 2021 live stream event: Taking Down El Chapo
The Drug Enforcement Administration Museum produces a series of educational lectures annually. The lecture series is designed to inform and educate the public in matters related to the mission of DEA and the DEA Museum & Visitors Center. Lecture topics include drug trends, science and forensics, collection objects, the exploits and accomplishments of the men and women of DEA, and more.
The upcoming lecture Taking Down El Chapo features key figures in the manhunt, capture, extradition, and conviction of one of the most notorious criminals in the past century. Our panelists will discuss their contributions to the saga of taking down El Chapo.
Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera, commonly known as “El Chapo” (shorty in English) founded the Sinaloa cartel in 1980 and smuggled hundreds of tons of illicit drugs into the U.S. for decades until his final capture in 2017. His ruthless career left scores dead in his wake, and he raked up a fortune worth at least 12 billion dollars along the way.
Guzmán escaped from maximum security Mexican prisons in 2001 and 2014. He maintained his grip on power and evaded law enforcement for years through savage murders by his sicario hit men, extortion, and corruption that notoriously involved the complicity of many Mexican authorities at all levels. He was once named by Forbes Magazine as one of the most powerful people in the world, and his long criminal career only came to an end after a multi-year joint investigation and pursuit by Mexican, DEA, and other U.S. authorities.
After a sensational trial in New York City, in July of 2017 Guzman was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole plus 30 years and sent to the notorious U.S. Penitentiary Administrative Security Facility in Florence, Colorado (Supermax), where the U.S. incarcerates its most dangerous criminals, including Oklahoma City bombing accomplice Terry Nichols, Boston Marathon bomber Dzholshar Tsarnaev, and the so-called Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski.
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