He's currently in New York City, at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, which he has complained is not nice enough, according to The New York Times.

He's the man the United States Department of the Treasury has called ' the world's most powerful drug trafficker'-so it's a good time to brush up on your El Chapo history. The series was created by Silvana Aguirre Zegarra and Carlos Contreras and produced by Daniel Posada. It stars Marco de la O as El Chapo Humberto Busto as Attorney Conrado Sol aka 'Don Sol ' and Juan Carlos Olivas as El Güero, among others. Part of this season will focus on 'the critical role corrupt government officials play in aiding El Chapo's rise over his rival cartel bosses,' the streaming company added. The series will 'show how his quest to become the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, the most powerful criminal organization in the world, impacts the lives of those closest to him–including his family,' Netflix wrote in a press release. On Friday, El Chapo, or Joaquín Guzman by birth, is coming back––via the second season of the Netflix series El Chapo, chronicling the Mexican drug lord's tumultuous and dramatic life, kicking off with his first (of two) dramatic escape from prison. He insisted his trial in New York wasn't fair and told the judge his case “was stained.Who could forget about the multi-millionaire drug lord who escaped from a maximum-security prison in a laundry cart, and once granted the actor Sean Penn the first and only exclusive interview of him ever? prison in 2019 for a massive drug conspiracy that spread murder and mayhem for more than two decades. He was sentenced to life behind bars in a U.S. That helped those digging the tunnel pinpoint his location and reach him.Įl Chapo, the leader of the Sinaloa cartel, was recaptured the following year. She also helped her husband plan a dramatic escape through a tunnel dug underneath a prison in Mexico in 2015 by smuggling to him a GPS watch disguised as a food item, prosecutors have said. She will now serve four years of supervised release.Ĭoronel Aispuro expressed “true regret for any and all harm” when she was sentenced after pleading guilty to charges including money laundering conspiracy and engaging in transactions with a foreign narcotics trafficker. The wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was released from federal custody on Wednesday after completing a three-year sentence for helping him run his multibillion-dollar criminal empire, the federal Bureau of Prisons said.Įmma Coronel Aispuro, who pleaded guilty in 2021 to three federal offenses as part of a plea deal with federal prosecutors, had been moved from a Texas prison to a California halfway house prior to her release.

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