Well, he built an empire from mostly nothing, has thumbed his nose at the corrupt government, and the Sinaloans seem to be the cartel that abuses its position of power the least, in Mexico.
These are the sort of things “heroic” criminals are made of.
These are the sort of things “heroic” criminals are made of.
Likely, no doubt he's a bad bad bad hombre but this is what has happened because of their governmental elites not giving squat about the common people of Mexico.
Sinaloa is where a lot of the drug growing and trade has originated for for many decades, 1950s at least. Seems to me they could burn those crop fields somewhere a long the line. The government on various levels have probably turned a blind eye to this as well. As I posted elsewhere, the Reagan administration had to lean on Mexico for them to bring in the killers of DEA Agent Camarena, and that was dealing with those out of Sinaloa as well.
It has to be added in that it is thought that El Chapo largely got the real bloody war started though because he invaded the Juarez plaza, the place near El Paso so many drugs come through. At least that is what is written:
“In May 2009, the U.S. National Public Radio (NPR) aired multiple reports alleging that the Mexican federal police and military were working in collusion with the Sinaloa Cartel. In particular, the report claimed the government was helping the Sinaloa Cartel to take control of the Juarez Valley area and destroy other cartels, especially the Juarez Cartel.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinaloa_Cartel
And see, the government probably has at times, been lenient, cooperative with the Sinaloans as stated above. Back during Reagan’s administration as well.