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Forbes Re-lists Sinaloa Cartel Leader (and CIA Cocaine Smuggler) Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman Among the Most Powerful People in the World
foxnews.com
It seems reputed drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán has gotten the best of Felipe Calderón again – this time, cracking the list of the world’s most powerful people while the Mexican president missed the cut.
The billionaire leader of the Sinaloa cartel was named the 55th most powerful on the planet by Forbes magazine, which annually compiles the list. Calderón was on the outside looking in – even though his Brazilian counterpart, Dilma Rousseff, and the world’s richest man and his countryman, Carlos Slim, made the list.
The drug trafficker dropped 14 places from two years ago when he sat 41st, right behind Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Guzmán and the Sinaloa cartel, along with the rival Zetas cartel, have been blamed for much of the violence in Mexico, which ramped up when Calderón declared a war on organized crime shortly after taking office in 2006.
Since then around 40,000 people have been killed in the ensuing violence.
The Sinaloa cartel leader has remained a shadowy figure, despite being ranked as the 937th richest man in the world by Forbes in 2010. Since his 1993 escape from prison, Guzmán has eluded Mexican authorities by hiding deep in the mountains near Mexico’s Pacific coast and surrounding himself with a large retinue of bodyguards.
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