Mexican governors met with El Chapo off-the-record
Joaquin Guzman Loera, also known as “El Chapo” (“Shorty”), the feared and elusive chieftain of the Mexican Sinaloa narcotics cartel, was a guest of honor at the 2011 Mexican state governors’ conference held in Mazatlan, according to a well-placed source who contacted the Wayne Madsen Report.
On July 11, 2015, the drug kingpin escaped for the second time from
Altiplano prison, a supposedly maximum-security facility located west of
Mexico City. El Chapo’s escape came 13 years after he escaped from
another maximum security prison, Puente Grande, in Jalisco state. In
both cases, El Chapo had help from the inside.
When El Chapo was incarcerated at Puente Grande, he was actually
using the prison to run his worldwide