Who is Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman?

Drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman in custody on January 8, 2016. Link Copied! Watch “Got Shorty: Inside the Chase for El Chapo,” a special report from CNN’s Chris Cuomo, at 8 p.m. ET Sunday on CNN. How did the diminutive son of a Mexican farming family end up becoming one of the most notorious and powerful drug lords in the world?

What happened to El Chapo Guzmán Loera?

Cartel head Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera allegedly had restaurant food and drugs delivered to his cell, and had a competition for how many women he could sleep with in prison. The cartel leader escaped in January 2001.

Who is Carlos El Chapo?

El Chapo, who began his life of crime in the 1970s as a driver for drug trafficker Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, landed in prison in 1993 for his role in the assassination of Cardinal Juan Jesus Posadas Ocampo, who was gunned down in the parking lot of the international airport in Guadalajara.

Why did El Chapo tell DEA he was smuggling drugs and cash?

The brothers, El Chapo warned, were in the practice of sending double agents to work as informants for the DEA and collect intel through their interactions with the gringos. Within the last six months, El Chapo said, he had learned that the group was smuggling drugs and cash under the border of Baja California and California.