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...sorry state of affairs. The meeting is being held under the auspices of the G20, an informal grouping that has none of the bureaucratic trappings that can help ensure fine words are turned into concrete action. Reaching a consensus among the U.S, Japan and Europe in the old G7 cartel was hard enough; doing so in the G20, which includes China, India, Russia, Brazil and Mexico, is exponentially harder. It doesn't help that members' interests vary so sharply. China, for example, owns so much U.S. government debt that it's publicly worrying about American financial stability. Washington, by contrast...
...Established notorious groups of henchmen, known as "Los Chachos," "Los Negros," "Los Texas," and "Los Lobos," which are suspected of committing more than 1,000 murders across Mexico, including the killing of cocaine rival Rodolfo Carrillo Fuentes of the Juarez Cartel...
...Arrested in Mexico in 1993 for murder and drug charges following the accidental shooting death of Mexican Bishop Juan Jesus Posadas Ocampo in Guadalajara, killed by a competing cartel who mistook Ocampo for Guzman. Convicted and sentenced to 7 years for conspiracy, bribery and "health crimes," according to the BBC. While incarcerated, he paid prison officials to arrange conjugal visits and business meetings to maintain control of his empire...
...Turf wars in May 2008 led to the shooting death of his son, Edgar, who was gunned down by rival traffickers outside of a shopping mall just a month after being released from prison. Currently battling two rival groups - the Juarez Cartel and the Beltran Leyva brothers, who had served as long-trusted aides until they severed ties with Guzman in early...
...last of the Mohicans. All of the other big cartels have been decapitated. That is why they want him so badly." - Jorge Chabat, a Mexico City expert on law enforcement, on the government's inability to catch him despite the arrests of 18 cartel leaders since 2001 (Los Angeles Times, July 5, 2005) "People see Chapo Guzman as the social bandit, as a Robin Hood. He fixes up the towns and puts lights in the cemetery. He is part of Sinaloan folklore." - Victor Hugo Aguilar, a professor at the Autonomous University of Sinaloa, on Guzman's influence over the region...