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Thursday, February 14, 2013

"El Chapo" is Named Chicago's Public Enemy "Number One" and Obama Wants a Stable Mexico


A drug kingpin in Mexico who has never set foot in Chicago has been named the city's new Public Enemy No. 1 - the same notorious label assigned to Al Capone at the height of the Prohibition-era gang wars. Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Crime Commission considers Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman even more menacing than Capone because he's the leader of the Sinaloa cartel, which supplies most of the narcotics sold in the city.


"What Al Capone was to beer and whiskey during Prohibition, Guzman is to narcotics," said Art Bilek, the commission's executive vice president. "Of the two, Guzman is by far the greater threat. ... And he has more power and financial capability than Capone ever dreamed of."

The commission - a non-government body that tracks city crime trends - designated Capone Public Enemy No. 1 in 1930. It has declared other outlaws public enemies, but Capone was the only one deemed No. 1. Until now.

Guzman is thought to be holed up in a mountain hideaway in western Mexico, but he ought to be treated as a local Chicago crime boss for the havoc his cartel creates in the nation's third-largest city, said Jack Riley, of the Drug Enforcement Administration, which joined the commission in affixing the title to Guzman.
The point of singling out Guzman was to inspire more public support for going after him, Bilek said
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"Ninety-nine percent of the people in the United States have never heard of this man," he said. "Concerted action ... must be taken now against Guzman before he establishes a bigger network and a bigger empire in the United States."

Capone based his bootlegging and other criminal enterprises in Chicago during Prohibition, when it was illegal to make or sell alcohol in the U.S. He eventually went to prison for income tax evasion, but he gained the greatest notoriety for the 1929 St. Valentine's Day Massacre that left seven rivals dead.

Yet Riley says Guzman - whose nickname means "shorty" in Spanish - is more ruthless than Capone, whose nickname was "Scarface."

"If I was to put those two guys in a ring, El Chapo would eat that guy (Capone) alive," Riley told The Associated Press in a recent interview at his office, pointing at pictures of the men.
Riley described Chicago as one of Sinaloa's most important cities, not only as a final destination for drugs but as a hub to distribute them across the U.S."This is where Guzman turns his drugs into money," he said.

Mexican cartels that ship drugs to Chicago are rarely directly linked to slayings. But Bilek said Thursday that cartel-led trafficking is an underlying cause of territorial battles between street gangs that are blamed for rising homicide rates.

"He virtually has his fingerprints on the guns that are killing the children of this city," Bilek told a news conference.

Guzman, who has been on the run since escaping from a Mexican prison in a laundry cart in 2001, is one of the world's most dangerous and most wanted fugitives. He's also one of the richest: Forbes magazine has estimated his fortune at $1 billion.

Now in his mid-50s, Guzman has been indicted on federal trafficking charges in Chicago and, if he is ever captured alive, U.S. officials want him extradited here to face trial. The U.S. government has offered a $5 million reward for his capture."His time is coming," Riley said. "I can't wait for that day."

It was only a coincidence, Bilek said Thursday, that the announcement naming Guzman Public Enemy No. 1 came on the anniversary of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, which raised public pressure to capture Capone.

Within two years of being designated Public Enemy No. 1 in 1930, Capone had been captured, convicted and imprisoned.

With the same label now attached to Guzman, Bilek said, "we hope the same thing will happen to him."
Obama Wants a Stable Mexico

WASHINGTON. - President Barack Obama urged the next government to collaborate with Mexican security because he believes that having a stable neighbor gives greater assurance to the United States. Therefore and according to the State Department, maintaining support for Mexico drug war is key to strengthening the bilateral relationship and to contribute to the country's stability. "A stable Mexico will help the national security of the United States, will unleash the potential of economic growth and protect citizens along our shared border.  President Barack Obama submitted a budget request  to Congress yesterday, which includes a game plan that will go to the Mexico "Application of FY2013 (for its acronym in English fiscal year 2013), to support our relationship with the new Mexican administration after the 2012 elections.

U.S. will continue its partnership with Mexico and expand mutual cooperation under the Obama Administration's approach around the four pillars of the Merida Initiative to address the security risks of drug trafficking, violent crime, and the capacities of the rule of law in Mexico,  "Specifically, he said, the funding of ESF (Economic Support Fund) will focus on reforms to strengthen and institutionalize offenders, improve the rule of law, respect for human rights and to build strong and resilient communities capable of withstanding pressures of crime and violence.

Similarly, it specifies that programs funded by the Bureau of Narcotics and Law Enforcement, State Department will focus on developing institutions of law enforcement through training, technical assistance and equipment purchases. "Programs continue to provide assistance to federal criminal justice institutions, including institutions of police, prosecutors, judicial and prison," says the proposal. Meanwhile, the drug czar's office in the White House, Gil Kerlikowske, announced that within the proposed budget for health programs for addiction and drug use in the United States,  requested an additional $ 390 million to reach a grand total of more than 10 billion dollars. "America is committed to reducing drug use, and we have made significant progress. We have a responsibility to reduce drug demand.It is a fact that the use of illegal drugs fuels the crime, violence, addiction and instability throughout the nation and the hemisphere," said the drug Czar Gil Kerlikowske. 

Sources: Abclocal, REFORMA

49 comments:

  1. They kind of make Norteamericanis sound clueless. Personally, I think a higher percentage of Americans have heard of Joaquin El Chapo Guzman.

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  2. Don't underestimate the ignorance of North Americans when it comes to the drug war. Our media hardly reports anything on it.

    Funny though that Chicago is going after El Chapo when they can't even control the crime and violence in their own city.

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  3. Gimme some credit I googled him, looked him up on Wiki, searched him on Borderland Beat to make sure. All in five minutes!

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  4. EL Senor Chapo can't be stopped !! Drug trafficking helps the American economy if it wasn't for the drug trade most american banks would not exist today! America is bankrupt country living on credit thanks to china (over 3 trillion in debt). Not to mention lazy african americans living off food stamps section 8 . Arriba El Chapo y El Cartel De Sinaloa if americans want to get high he will deliver the goods.saludos pal Fantasma (no se aguite compa ya pronto sale) RIP M1 saludos al Bravo y Los Talibanes

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    1. Manguera. Fuck el m1. Valia Verga el puto. He never put in work. Always hiding in Cosala with his little "clique" don't always believe what corridos say (just saying) haha

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  5. I'd be fine if all cities made him public enemy numero one-now that I know who he is. They are right. He is bad. But Forbes Magazine might struggle with listing 'Public Enemy Numero Uno on their billionaires list every year. Or not? Probably not. They are all about greed and exploiting greed.

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  6. Al Capone was a joke ! When you talk about real Boss 1.El Chapo 2.El Mayo 3. El Azul. 4 Nacho Coronel RIP

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    1. Your a sinaloa cartel cheerleading retard, every name u just mentioned are all sinaloa members! I would think it would be more like 1. El Chapo 2. Pablo Escobar 3. Carlo Gambino

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    2. But look whos still alive. EL CHAPO VERGAS

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  7. Aunque los gringos no les guste El Patron se la rifa

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  8. Chapo Guzman does not want violence and the violence is Los Zetas fault. Every cartel wants to be non-violent but the Zetas are ruining Mexico

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  9. more corrupt american law enforcement helping mexican drug cartels.
    Smuggling Suspect Linked to Corrupt Lawmen


    Posted: Feb 13, 2013 6:43 PM

    Updated: Feb 13, 2013 7:54 PM
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    HIDALGO COUNTY - A suspect arrested last week during a raid near San Carlos may have been working with corrupt lawmen, federal records show.

    A criminal complaint shows Fernando Guerra Sr., 48, of Edinburg, is suspected of leading a drug-trafficking organization. He is accused of stealing from rival groups and working with corrupt lawmen to further his criminal enterprise.

    Guerra and his son Fernando Guerra Jr. were arrested during a raid Thursday at a home north of San Carlos. A federal judge ordered them held without bond.

    Officials said the pair had been under investigation since 2012.

    The complaint shows the elder Guerra met with an informant in September. They reportedly planned to have a shipment of cocaine worth more than $7 million delivered to them. The father and son planned to have the corrupt lawmen intercept the load. The officers would give part of the load to the suspects.

    The federal records do not show which law enforcement agency employed the corrupt officers.
    krgv

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  10. Harris County Constable Confirms Theft of License Plate

    Posted: Feb 13, 2013 7:02 PM

    Updated: Feb 13, 2013 11:56 PM

    WESLACO - A Harris County constable's office official confirmed that the license plate found on a cloned police vehicle in Falfurrias was stolen from one of their cruisers.

    The cloned police SUV was seized two weeks ago. The SUV was equipped with police lights and had a real law enforcement license plate. The plate was stolen in Houston, officials said.

    "I believe it showed up missing, we don't know what happened, we don't know how it ended up that way," Harris County Precinct 6 Deputy Constable Tom Entwistle said.

    Entwistle would not say when the plate was stolen. He said the case is under investigation.
    krgv

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  11. more on the hidalgo county multi unit task force anti narcotics unit panama.
    Bond Revoked for Ex-Panama Unit Member


    Posted: Feb 14, 2013 11:37 AM

    Updated: Feb 14, 2013 12:12 PM

    MCALLEN - A former narcotics officer is heading to jail, after his bond was revoked. Fabian Rodriguez is one of four members of the now-defunct Panama Unit accused of helping escort drug loads.

    A federal judge ruled Rodriguez violated a condition of release by indirectly sending a message to co-defendant, Jonathan Trevino. During a hearing, it was also revealed that Rodriguez had direct contact with a co-defendant. The judge didn't go into details.

    We learned that information will be shared during a hearing scheduled next week.

    Meanwhile, the other people facing charges in the case are still out on bond.
    krgv

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  12. @2:41pm
    y pablo escobar que?

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  13. @2:41 pm you sinaloa nuthugger!!!

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  14. Chapo and Sinaloa have done a lot more for most Americans (supplied them with the drugs they love) than these stinking DEA losers. The DEA are a bunch of narcos themselves and have no useful purpose in life. I'd like to kill the lot of them.

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    1. Well it appears that you dont have the balls to do it because you dont want to get the death penalty or go to prison for life idiot. This is America idiot, not mexico. We dont take shit from anybody.

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  15. Yeah making him Chis most wanted is really gonna help capture him..hahha. El Chapo has been #1 on Worlds Most Wanted list since Bin Laden died. This means nothing.

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  16. And did the feds ever caught Capone NOPE only the irs da guy did 3 yrs in prison and later died in his home in Miami.. Enemy #1 jajaja se la van a pelar al chapo.. Jajaja

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  17. Listen this is wrong I live in chicago born and raised and grew up in the hoods yeah chapo might supply drugs here but there is never ending black on black crime here and it is not attributed to chapo its gangs mistaken people as rivals and other races as well its usually gang related to turf then you got the mayor rahm Emanuel and mcgartty police chief they can make it all go away by banning guns please the only people you affect are the law biding citizens criminals will always aquire guns for their criminal activities they dont careabout the law so dont say the high homicidal rate in chicago is due to chapo its so many other factors that contribute to violence in chicago political economical etc etc gangs government not enough programs out there and so fourth I live out here so im use to it gas prices are ridiculous out here. peace!

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    1. You are SERIOUSLY retarded or something mr born and raised in chicago. Guess what? Gangs kill one another for TERRITORY to SELL DRUGS you clown!!!! I wish I had u In front of me so I could slap ur ass around a bit. U know your stupid Latin Kings? Yeah, they kill because of drugs ignorant!

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    2. 9:28 pm. DID YOU MEAN THE GANGERS DISCIPILES? 7 out of 10 murders are directly in their war for territory. They are Chicago's number one problem many innocents are killed or maimed over their crazy ass war. As, of yestery, the ChigagoTribune, has info.that the precious 15 year who sang at the inaguration was murdered by them ,due to their mistaking her for a rival gang member. Chigago is beyond out of control!

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  18. the drug dealers and government all work together the mexican government and american all are gangsters..

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  19. alcohol is alcohol, cigarette is cigarette, drug is drug... so what. simply say no to them.

    speak of NRA they sell guns in the us for good reasons but some fucking crazy killers used guns to shoot dead victims at schools, movie theatre, anywhere else.

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  20. The comparison is made so people can make the conection
    That some of this drugs will be legal perty soon.
    Peace will come soon

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  21. I know who chapo is and capone was not a joke in his day he had alot of people killed.not all americans are on drugs.if they depended on people like me to buy their product they would all be on food stamps as they would make no money off me. If they just sold dope i dont think anyone would really care its the killings that have got to stop.i seen a guy so high on meth yesterday he literally couldnt stand still it was nauseating i just looked at him and thought thats why i will never do that shit.it aint the gvts messages it was looking at people like that and thinking who the hell wants to be awake for a week with sores on them YUCK.thats what makes me not buy anything from a dope dealer

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  22. here are the only things that move americans to think about chapo guzman. 1. get his drugs for free to fill their brains of shiet and 2. americans love other persons money. americans want to look smarter that everybody else but their idiot ideas are just a bunch of caca.

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  23. This is a dumb PR stunt and won't change anything.
    I have a feeling that both the US and Mexican governments have a good idea where Chapo is.
    Ironic that Mexico is a country with a 1.2 Trillion dollar economy and a member of G-20, yet they can't catch some of these big capos and have lost control of their territory.

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  24. daaam maybe we'll start seeing some movies of mexican mafios's now :) they glorify italians in the american media with all there movies. mexicans dealing with larger organized crime schemes than these guys

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  25. @2:53, dude if chapo did not want violence then what the hell were the wars that were fought over TJ and Juarez plaza??!! Not to mention all the fighting going on between CDS and BLO in Sinaloa.
    Maybe the Zetas violence has less logic, but its thousands have been killed in Chapo's plaza wars.

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  26. The U.S government needs drug traffickers to get money from them. That's why everytime they catch a big timer they always want money from them. Look at osiel Cardenas from the Gulf cartel and 1 of the arellano Felix brothers, they had to pay the U.S $50 million dollars that's why they need drug traffickers

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  27. Ther was only one guy that I would compare to chapo Guzman and that is El señor de Los cieLos Amado Carrillo Fuentes that guy was the real deal a men between men if chapo worked like him chapo would provably be the Mexican president right now

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    1. chapo Guzman is nothing compared to amado carrillo Fuentes, el señor De los cielos was a real boss. If he was still alive he would be running shit still an chapo Guzman would be.sucking his.Dick

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    2. Amado Carillo Fuentes was ten times a better boss then Chapo,25 billion is all Don Amado was was worth for.

      The proof, is that Chapo cant even take on Amados younger brother Vicente Carrillo Fuentes ( Juarez Cartel).

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  28. son muchos los que me buscan son mas los que me protegen asi dice el corrido. si agarran o matan al chapo va ser peor el desmadre. the govt. knows this thats why this is just a p.r stunt thats all...who would obama want to run the drug show chapito or zetas a smart man would go chapo 100 %. am i rite.

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  29. El Chapo for president of Mexico .putos gringos will never catch him .Fuerzas Especiales corta cabezas Talibanes protecting El Senor .

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    1. "Fuerzas especiales" jajajaja! No mames guey, te la jalas pendejote! The only real special forces are in the military baboso!!!!! Protecting "el senor". Jajajaja!!! U suck his @ss and nuts any chance u get u pathetic fool!!!! CLOWN!!! Pinche titere!!!!

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  30. Chapo Guzman has become a very powerful capo due to help he has gotten from family of powerful people. The brother and sister of ex-Colombian president Uribe were chapo's partners since the death of Pablo Escobar.

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  31. Al Capone and all 20's & 30's prohibition era gangsters were nothing compared to what is happening in Mexico. Think about it ?
    The beheading ? Total dismemberments, dissolving , etc, etc, etc,.
    Nothing compares to the horrific things coming out of Mexico.
    And whats worst is the denial and cover up in the name of Tourism .

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  32. This is just a way to get the word out to the masses.
    I heard it on Mexican radio in the car and came home to read it, but only found ir here cause I looked here first. You guys do get the word out about this cartel situation ruining 28 states in Mexico. More Americans should care about their southern neighbors.

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  33. Look at the comments here?It is not about helping Mexico,it is not about saying i hope they catch him,they are all suckers for this narco bullshit,the shit they talk is unending"Leave our Chapo alone"And surprise surprise you got Mexicans saying racist shit against blacks.Well if it aint white,black racism will do for them,meanwhile they glorify some dude they never have and never will meet,are not in the game,but behave as though you are insulting their heroes?"Chapo was bigger than Capone,wah,wah,wah"Fuck is that all about.Fuck the pair of them.Strange shit.

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  34. February 14, 2013 at 2:41 PM
    "Al Capone was a joke ! When you talk about real Boss 1.El Chapo 2.El Mayo 3. El Azul. 4 Nacho Coronel RIP"
    How old are you man?If you not 14 you one sad specimen.

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  35. "Obama wants a stable Mexico"? Whaaaat? So he sends weapons Fast and Furious, Tradewinds and all the others we haven't heard about. Obama doesn't want a stable ANYTHING. He's a revolutionary dictator.

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  36. Chapo will keep getting more powerful because of his connections . If he stays at home no one will get him. If he is betrayed "on the road" well it is up to circumstances. Javana will be happy with some intelligent comments too.

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  37. Chapos days are NUMBERED..esta muerto y no lo sabe...pobre enano jajaja pinche rata

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  38. To the.idiot who wants this criminal for president he started.this.war .chaputo nuthugger put the pom poms away.

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    1. That guy is just heating up the plaza here. Don't even think twice about him - anyone sayng "Chapo for president" es ridiculo.

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  39. What kind of animals behead, dismember, rape,extort, and kill,burn,dissolve other people ????
    Sick mutherf*ckers do !!!
    Evil gente abajo el control de los demonicos que tiene directivos direcatamente del infierno !!!! Mexico needs the biggest holy water enema ever created before mankind !!!

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