 How Guzman makes his billion$ |
Forbes magazine’s latest list of the world’s billionaires includes Mexico’s most wanted man – Joaquin Guzman. The 54-year-old, who is said to be the head of one of Mexico’s most powerful drug cartels, is 701st on the list with an estimated fortune of $1 billion.
Mr Guzman, who escaped from a Mexican prison on 2001, is understood to be at large in Mexico or Central America.
Forbes estimates that last year Mexican and Colombian traffickers made between $18 billion and $39 billion. Mr Guzman’s slice of that pie comes from his assumed control of the Sinaloa cartel, which is named after the Mexican state in which it is based.
For over a year the Sinaloa Cartel has been trying to oust a rival gang from the border city of Ciudad Juarez; the turf war has left more than 2,000 people dead.
Those who have met Mr Guzman, who stands at just 5 feet tall (152cm), describe him as a man of extraordinary charisma and intelligence.
I get pissed off when people waste my time describing the positive qualities of a scumbag. What should charisma count with a thug who orders the murder of thousands of people?
How about that war on drugs, huh? With that kind of cash, he could easily compete against the Mexican government. Rumor is the drug war is starting to leak into the tourist areas in Mexico. With the world economy the way it is, it wouldn’t take too much more to make Mexico collapse.
It reminds me of some headlines from “The Onion.”
War on Drugs: Drugs win.
DEA Seizes Half-Built Suspension Bridge From Bogotá To Miami.
Drugs Now Legal If User Is Employed.
Huge Quantities Of Primo Shit Incinerated By Feds.
Stoner Architect Drafts All-Foyer Mansion.
Everyone Involved In Pizza’s Preparation, Delivery, Purchase Extremely High.
Didn’t he buy the New York Times?
Hitler was also described as a man of extraordinary charisma and intelligence…and he wasn’t very tall either…and his dust-up only left over 60M dead.
Our next invasion? Mexico for like the third time…unless Oblahblah blows the Mexicartels away with a series of surgical strike speeches. “Ohhhhh! He ees sooooooo intelligent and more charismatic than El Jefe! Okay, we surrender!”
Compared to the hedge fund boys who drove up the price of grain to unimaginable heights 06-07, and thus killed -millions- of people for profit, Joaquin Guzman is a saint. . . .
“I get pissed off when people waste my time describing the positive qualities of a scumbag. What should charisma count with a thug who orders the murder of thousands of people?” ///
Such a great set-up. Who we takin’ bout?
1. The Pope?
2. Any President?
3. Any mother regarding her son?
When you talk about character, you are admitting to the crime.
What should charisma count with a thug who orders the murder of thousands of people?
Ask Cezar Chavez.
“I get pissed off when people waste my time describing the positive qualities of a scumbag.”
That’s what you get when the USA worships thugs like Al Capone and John Gotti as heroes even if they were monsters.
Besides, if there weren’t any demand coming from the USA and Canada none of this would have happened. As always, others are paying for the excess commited by the Americans.
Chapo Chapo Chapo
we deliver, you use….ergo you need guys like him
#7 Agreed
The man is a creation of prohibition and the War on Drugs.
Operation: RECIPROCITY
Time for the Mexican government to do a “Clear and Present Danger” type laser-guided bomb attack on the drug lord’s hacienda. Adios MF!
If the powers that be wanted to get rid of the drugs. All they would have to do is fly over to Columbia and buy all the Coke wholesale and dump it in the ocean.
But how would they be able to scare the public into giving up their rights. If there were no evil drugs and the drug war that needs to be fought.
This is a way to control the public. Do you realy think the gov gives a crap if you do Coke or any other drug for that matter.
And you thought Madoff had a scam going.
PURO CHIHUAHUA PUTOOS!