El Chapo Thesis

Drug trafficking, violence, murder, Joaquin Guzman Loera, known as El Chapo, is the Chief Executive Officer of the Mexican Sinaloa Drug Cartel. This cartel specially stands out among the others because it supplies more heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine and marijuana than any other cartel or crime syndicate in the world, controlling 80% of drugs brought into the United States.
El Chapo started selling drugs as a teenager, in Badiguarato, Mexico, where he was born. He founded the Sinaloa Drug Cartel in 1989, building it over time into the most profitable cartel in the world. By his late teens, El Chapo was kicked out of his own home and was forced to fend for himself. Having very little education, he followed his father's path, growing marijuana …show more content…
El Chapo always kept a low profile, but when his boss at that time was eventually arrested for killing an American Drug Enforcement Agency agent, he took the opportunity to become one of the new faces of the Mexican drug world. As the the Colombian drug cartels like Medellin and Cali started to disappear, the Sinaloa drug cartel was among the first Mexican organizations to take advantage of the situation. Under El Chapo’s direction, they took control of the cocaine trade extending from South America to the United …show more content…
Various crime lords and syndicates prove to us that when someone is taken down in this business, someone else almost immediately will take their place and continue the trade as if nothing happened. The government itself is the main reason why this war continues; instead of simply regulating and taxing these drugs for recreational and medical advantages, our tax money is spent on something that will never have an end, throwing countless bodies and currencies into a bottomless pit. Is our drug fueled society itself fueled by the greed, corruption and violence started by the ones we chose to represent