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Old 06-17-2021, 08:50 AM
 
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Just another example of the utter failure of the "war on drugs."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/el-chapo-...125011533.html

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It's been five years since Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán was arrested for the last time. He's been in a US "supermax" prison since 2017, serving a life sentence after being found guilty of all 10 federal charges he faced.

But according to official US data, security analysts, and some of his own lawyers, business has never been better for his cartel.

At the time, US authorities said Guzmán's arrest was "a significant victory and a milestone" in combating violence and drug trafficking. Richard Donoghue, former US attorney for the Eastern District of New York, said Guzmán would never again "pour poison into our country or make millions as innocent lives are lost."

While El Chapo has been portrayed as a guiding force for the infamous Sinaloa Cartel, his organization and other criminal groups don't seem to miss him.

According to official US figures, since Guzmán's arrest the influx of drugs into the US and the violence in Mexico have never been worse.

In the 2016 fiscal year, during much of which El Chapo was behind bars in Mexico, cocaine busts at the border totaled more than 5,000 pounds. In 2017 - when he was extradited to the US - that spiked to more than 9,000 pounds, according figures released by US Border Patrol.

Cocaine seizures in the US also jumped from more than 52,000 pounds in 2016 to more than 62,000 pounds the following year. In 2020, 58,006 pounds of cocaine were seized in the US. The total for 2021, as of April, is 62,324 pounds. (US government fiscal years run from October 1 to September 30.)

In 2015, with Guzmán still at large, 29,000 pounds of meth were recovered in the US. Five years later, with El Chapo locked up, seizures inside the US jumped to 117,600 pounds.
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