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Killer, drug smuggler, folk hero, Houdini of jailhouse escapes--the legend of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is well known. But now this two-hour documentary special reveals an unprecedented look at the man behind the myth.
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00:02:43For many Americans, his story starts with a vanishing act.
00:02:49July 2015, Altiplano, Mexico's supermax prison.
00:02:55It's the most maximum secure penitentiary in Mexico.
00:03:00It's just before 9 p.m. and Joaquin Guzman Loera, El Chapo, paces under the surveillance cameras in his cell.
00:03:09Chapo Guzman was the highest risk prisoner that they had there.
00:03:13The TV blares.
00:03:16The prison guards seem distracted.
00:03:21And suddenly, he's gone.
00:03:2625 minutes later, guards find an empty cell.
00:03:36All that's left is a hole, 20 inches square.
00:03:40Some 30 feet below, a modified motorcycle on rails awaits as a getaway through a tunnel almost one mile long.
00:03:50He's being called the most dangerous cartel leader in the world.
00:03:54And he just staged a spectacular escape from prison.
00:03:56This is the first time I've heard in modern day that somebody literally tunneled through dirt to escape from prison.
00:04:03What's most impressive is how well this tunnel is built.
00:04:06There are steel beams.
00:04:07There's wood, electricity.
00:04:09This is a generator to run all the lights, we're told.
00:04:12As for Chapo, he's long gone.
00:04:22Mexico is stunned.
00:04:24It's the most brazen prison break in the country's history.
00:04:28Embarrassing a police force, a government, an entire nation.
00:04:33It's extremely frustrating.
00:04:35You know, this is a blow to the good guys on both sides of the border.
00:04:38The Mexican government seem incapable of keeping the most high-profile criminal in the nation behind bars.
00:04:54That really shook the government.
00:04:56Soon, ballads about El Chapo hit the airwaves from Mexico to the U.S.
00:05:09And a national figure becomes an international icon.
00:05:14As the legend of the narco Houdini explodes into the media worldwide.
00:05:18He's able to escape some of the most seriously hardened prisons in Mexico.
00:05:30In these miraculous escapes, that is something mythical.
00:05:35From Sonora to Southern California, El Chapo's brand goes global.
00:05:41And businesses cash in.
00:05:42This one, this model here is the one that is most popular.
00:05:49It's selling a lot, a lot.
00:05:51Exactly, as you said, taking advantage of the phenomenon of El Chapo Guzman,
00:05:55we have a piece of reposteria.
00:06:00On July 12, 2015, a search begins.
00:06:05An international manhunt led by Mexican, U.S., even Colombian forces.
00:06:10As a former U.S. drug enforcement official put it bluntly today,
00:06:14if Guzman isn't caught within 48 hours, we may never find him again.
00:06:19Flights have been suspended at local airports about 50 miles west of Mexico City.
00:06:24The U.S. government will act swiftly.
00:06:27The guy needs to be behind bars.
00:06:32Suspects in Chapo's escape are rounded up and pressed for intel.
00:06:36A 30 personas que trabajaban en el penal están rindiendo su declaración.
00:06:45With a $5 million reward, Chapo's sightings run wild.
00:06:50Chapo was like Elvis.
00:06:51People were seeing him everywhere.
00:06:53A multinational team of law enforcement officials works to track him down.
00:07:00Within three weeks, the Mexican Marines were listening to his communications.
00:07:07Mexican government started to do wire intercepts on his attorneys, on family members,
00:07:12getting bits and pieces of information.
00:07:14That information leads them to one region, El Chapo's Mexican homeland,
00:07:21the so-called Golden Triangle in the mountains of Sinaloa.
00:07:27He was up in that mountainous region, which is highly rugged.
00:07:32If you don't want to be found, you're never going to be found.
00:07:36For nearly three months, thousands of law enforcement officials worldwide
00:07:44try to catch El Chapo Guzman with no luck.
00:07:49But then, the 61-year-old fugitive kingpin slips up.
00:07:55Chapo made the ultimate mistake.
00:07:57He wanted to meet with Kate Del Castillo,
00:08:02who played a female drug lord in La Reina del Sur, or the Queen of the South,
00:08:08and he was enamored with her.
00:08:10The big weakness of Chapo Guzman are beautiful women.
00:08:16In October 2015, El Chapo invites Del Castillo and actor Sean Penn
00:08:23to a secret meeting at a Sinaloa ranch.
00:08:26And leaked pictures will soon cause a social media frenzy.
00:08:31He agreed to meet with them in order to create a movie about his life.
00:08:37He became very much interested in growing his legend.
00:08:42Photos obtained by Rolling Stone show the actors meeting with the fugitive drug lord.
00:08:47For the first time, Chapo grants an exclusive on-camera interview.
00:08:52Later released by Rolling Stone magazine.
00:08:58Meanwhile, the authorities on both sides of the border are listening in.
00:09:08When Chapo Guzman gave a BlackBerry cell phone to Kate Del Castillo, tracking really started.
00:09:16The Mexican Marines were getting closer and closer all the time by monitoring,
00:09:21by eavesdropping, and triangulating signals and communications.
00:09:25If I was Chapo, I'd be looking over my shoulder because we're coming.
00:09:28Then, less than a week after the meeting with Del Castillo and Penn,
00:09:36Mexican forces make their move.
00:09:39Following intercepted cell phone signals,
00:09:42they track El Chapo into the heart of the Golden Triangle.
00:09:45Residents say Black Hawk helicopters arrive and open fire.
00:09:51Six hundred villagers have to leave their homes.
00:10:09Chapo himself is nowhere to be found.
00:10:11Soldiers sweep through 18 of his homes and properties and come up empty.
00:10:28They got very close, but El Chapo Guzman, as he's incredibly good at,
00:10:34escaped through a hidden passageway.
00:10:38The search is expanding now for escaped drug kingpin El Chapo.
00:10:43Then, on October 9th, 2015, he's spotted again near a remote village in Sinaloa.
00:10:51Blackhawks move quickly into the area.
00:10:54And soon, the sniper has Chapo in his crosshairs.
00:10:57The Mexican Marine was authorized to kill Chapo Guzman.
00:11:01But there's one problem.
00:11:03He can't get a clean shot.
00:11:05Chapo Guzman started to run down a mountain trail.
00:11:09He was carrying the small child of one of his cooks.
00:11:12Guzman held that little girl in front of him as a human shield.
00:11:17The Mexican Marine radioed into his commander,
00:11:19who told him to stand down.
00:11:20The risk of hurting that little girl was too great.
00:11:23El Chapo makes a run for it, then loses his footing.
00:11:26He toppled down a steep part of a trail and was evidently injured.
00:11:33But before the Marines can grab him, Chapo's henchmen drag him off into the woods.
00:11:39Once again, El Chapo disappears.
00:11:42It will take another three months before his trackers get a new lead.
00:11:47In January 2016, Mexican officers trailed one of Chapo's men to the seaside town of Los Mochis.
00:11:58Mexican Marines very carefully watched a particular house that was undergoing a great deal of construction.
00:12:05And they intercept a phone call where they indicate the dia, or the ant, is coming.
00:12:13And they believed that was code word for Chapo's man.
00:12:18On January 8th, the Mexican officials get a surprising tip-off.
00:12:23They watched a white armored vehicle travel to pick up a large taco order quite late, around midnight.
00:12:31At that point, they realized that it was El Chapo and one of his top lieutenants,
00:12:36and they were having a party in Los Mochis, in this house that had been retrofitted.
00:12:41At 4.30 a.m., all is dead quiet in the affluent neighborhood, as an elite squad creeps into position.
00:12:49After a six-month hunt, Operation Black Swan is about to begin.
00:12:5417 Special Ops soldiers from the Mexican Marines, packing assault rifles and helmet cams, approach the house.
00:13:04But when El Chapo's men go on the offensive, all hell breaks loose.
00:13:08January 2016, El Chapo, the most wanted drug lord in America and the world,
00:13:32has been on the run since his dramatic escape from a maximum security prison.
00:13:38Now, after a nearly six-month chase, an elite squad of Mexican Marines is closing in on him, in the town of Los Mochis.
00:13:48But they walk into a hail of bullets.
00:13:57There is shooting, all hell breaks loose.
00:14:00There's automatic weapons fire, and the screams, and the agony, and the blood.
00:14:13They hit the Mexican Marines with everything they had.
00:14:19From AK-47s, to M4s, to hand grenades.
00:14:24The brutal gun battle will go on for nearly an hour.
00:14:40By 6.30 a.m., the shooting is over.
00:14:50Marines have locked down the safe house.
00:14:56In the chaos, five cartel gunmen have been killed, six others arrested.
00:15:12Marines search the house, looking for the fugitive drug lord.
00:15:19They turn up an arsenal.
00:15:2119 guns, RPGs, armored cars.
00:15:26But El Chapo is nowhere to be seen.
00:15:29They found two escape patches.
00:15:33One behind the refrigerator in the kitchen, which turns out to have been a ruse, a trick,
00:15:39merely meant to confuse El Chapo's pursuers.
00:15:42The second in a mirrored closet.
00:15:45It takes the Marines 90 minutes to find the hidden switch that opens a concealed door.
00:15:50The full-length mirror they've walked past several times swings open, leading down to a secret passage.
00:16:00El Chapo, the master of escape, has gotten away again.
00:16:04It's no wonder thousands of officers are hunting for Chapo.
00:16:15The 58-year-old is the head of the richest criminal organization in history.
00:16:20But his start is very different.
00:16:23He's born poor, so poor, his cradle is a wooden tomato crate.
00:16:32He grows up in the 1950s in a tiny village in the hills.
00:16:37With no electricity, no running water, nothing but ambition.
00:16:42La Tuna, where he was born, is so remote.
00:16:45These families are so impoverished.
00:16:47They look for any way they can to put food on the table.
00:16:51The oldest of seven kids, young Joaquin gets the nickname Chapo, or Shorty.
00:16:58His father pulls him out of school in the third grade and sends him to work the poppy fields.
00:17:04His father was abusive and alcoholic, spent all of the money on, allegedly, alcohol and women.
00:17:11His father was a very brutal man.
00:17:14He would beat up Chapo Usman, his brothers, and his sisters.
00:17:21By the time he's a teenager, Chapo runs away to start his own business in the drug trade.
00:17:28If you're a small kid from a village out there, you're going to go for the drugs.
00:17:33His only role models were drug traffickers.
00:17:36They're the ones that had the beautiful women on each arm.
00:17:39They had bling.
00:17:40They had, you know, beautiful cars.
00:17:44So Chapo Usman wanted to emulate these individuals because it was a way out of poverty for him.
00:17:52And so Chapo turns to his cousins, the Beltran Leibas, who are already in the business.
00:17:59They show him the ropes.
00:18:00And they helped him to make his own feels when he was between 15 or 16 years old.
00:18:12Chapo's homeland, Sinaloa, in the Golden Triangle, is rugged, remote.
00:18:19It's also ground zero for narcos.
00:18:21The state of Sinaloa is, to the Mexican drug cartels, a bit like how Sicily is to the Italian mafia.
00:18:30It's the cradle of Mexican organized crime.
00:18:33Chapo Usman was, in many ways, born into the drug trade.
00:18:37SUNY begins at the bottom of Mexico's main crime syndicate, the Guadalajara gang, headed by Felix Gallardo, the man they call El Padrino, the godfather.
00:18:53He brought Chapo Usman in initially as a driver and then started to give him more responsibility.
00:19:01Young Chapo pays his dues running errands.
00:19:04If you go back to his earliest days, he was a logistics guy, primarily for marijuana.
00:19:10He's coming into the business at the right time.
00:19:13The United States drug consumption exploded in the 1960s.
00:19:17With the Cultural Revolution, the demand for first marijuana, then heroin, skyrockets.
00:19:26And when Colombian cocaine arrives in the late 70s, it's a game changer.
00:19:31Cocaine made the business way larger than it was in the past.
00:19:35The Mexican gangs work as drug runners for the famed Colombian kingpin Pablo Escobar and his infamous Medellín cartel.
00:19:44The Mexican traffickers were the transporters and they would receive a fee from the Colombians.
00:19:50This is when cocaine flows through Mexico in really massive quantities.
00:19:55By the mid-1980s, Felix Gallardo and his boys from Sinaloa are running the largest criminal syndicate in Mexico, working directly under Pablo Escobar himself.
00:20:11Chapo Guzman, now in his late 20s, shows the brains and the drive to get ahead.
00:20:17He very quickly proved himself as just a smart, savvy operator.
00:20:24He was very adept at coordinating flights from Colombia containing large shipments of cocaine.
00:20:31If you're able to get loads safely into the United States, your worth is absolutely tremendous.
00:20:40He and the cartel are moving up to 20 tons of coke a month into California.
00:20:45His two main weapons are cash and fear.
00:20:50His ability to corrupt and to convince is probably boundless.
00:20:55They start to pay bribes directly to a very high level members of the government.
00:21:02Generals, members of the federal police.
00:21:05It's said he'll stop at nothing to get what he wants.
00:21:09People were afraid of making mistakes.
00:21:12He was vicious, killed people.
00:21:14When individuals lost loads, he would put a bullet in their head.
00:21:18He personally, by his own hand, would execute them.
00:21:21He's the most notorious drug trafficker in the world.
00:21:33A wanted man in the United States.
00:21:35But back in the mid-1980s, 30-year-old Joaquin Guzman Loera, El Chapo, is rising quickly through the ranks of the Guadalajara cartel.
00:21:45He was well known as an executioner.
00:21:48When loads were late, when individuals showed up for work drunk or unprepared, he would execute them.
00:21:55But he's more than just a hitman.
00:21:58Although he can't really read or write, he has an uncanny ability to move the product.
00:22:03And he had many ingenious ways of trafficking drugs, such as hiding cocaine in tins of chili.
00:22:13They were one of the most innovative.
00:22:16This was an organization that would essentially use any route available.
00:22:20Shipping containers, panga boats, trucks, even mules are used to move concealed drugs across the border.
00:22:28By sea, Chapo and his cartel ship immense loads right under the Coast Guard's nose.
00:22:34They perfected the art of building these so-called narco submarines, carrying tons of cocaine worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
00:22:45But then Chapo gets his most inspired idea yet, the one that will put him on the map.
00:22:57Smuggling tunnels have been around for decades, running underneath the U.S.-Mexico border, some of the most heavily patrolled terrain on the continent.
00:23:07But Chapo takes it to a new level, turning them into an art form, the super tunnels.
00:23:16He has the first one built in 1989.
00:23:19The tunnel was called one of the most sophisticated drug smuggling schemes authorities have ever seen.
00:23:24This type of tunnel is not an amateur operation.
00:23:28It's a highly sophisticated engineering feat that took place.
00:23:33Even the way in is surprising, an entrance hidden under a pool table.
00:23:42Turning an outside water spigot triggers a hydraulic system, lifting the table, revealing a ladder heading down.
00:23:49More than three stories below, the tunnel runs 300 feet under the border, from Mexico into Arizona.
00:23:56It's the prototype for dozens of arched Sinaloa tunnels that will follow, complete with ventilation, electricity, and more.
00:24:07Infrastructure marvels called the Taj Mahal of tunnels.
00:24:11In 1990, U.S. authorities are startled to discover this passageway is funneling massive drug loads into the U.S.
00:24:19They set out to shut down El Chapo's tunnels.
00:24:22It's a battle that continues to this day.
00:24:26We believe that there are tunnels under construction as we speak, and it's our job to find those and put them out of business.
00:24:33If we come across a tunnel that's being built, you know, we will just fill it in on the United States side.
00:24:38A lot of tunnels come up in the Otay Mesa warehouse area in San Diego, where Mexico and the U.S. sit side by side, less than a mile apart.
00:24:50So as you can see, right over here, that fence is the international border with Mexico.
00:24:55And where we stand is the commercial district in San Ysidro, San Diego County, where there's no shortage of commercial warehouses to utilize as a tunnel exit point.
00:25:04Here, there's more than two million square feet of vacant real estate available at any given point, which gives cartels like Chapo's a lot of room to maneuver.
00:25:18Clubs and harnesses. Anybody else? Helmets?
00:25:21Day in and day out, a crew from the San Diego Tunnel Task Force, known as the Tunnel Rats, suit up to investigate these tunnels that run under the U.S.-Mexico border.
00:25:33They rope off and rappel down into the darkness.
00:25:39Seventy feet under the Earth's surface, they find passageways more than a half mile long.
00:25:44All told, U.S. and Mexican officials have found nearly 60 of these sophisticated tunnels in the past decade and a half, many masterminded by Chapo himself.
00:25:56This tunnel was discovered in 2009, December of 2009.
00:26:02Their partners on the south side found a warehouse.
00:26:05When they entered the building, they later discovered the whole bathroom lowered.
00:26:08Toilet, vanity, and all.
00:26:10To access the actual tunnel entrance itself, the whole bottom floor actually lowered into the tunnel.
00:26:16They found they had ventilation systems, electrical, a phone line was actually in there, and a rudimentary rail system.
00:26:23For El Chapo's builders, these are no simple tasks.
00:26:27Well, it takes time, it takes effort.
00:26:29They're digging tunnels 3,000 feet.
00:26:32Some of these take about a year, year and a half to span these distances.
00:26:36So, I mean, that's persistent.
00:26:40They also take money, as much as a million dollars apiece to build.
00:26:45But it's money well spent for the cartels like El Chapo's.
00:26:48It's a priceless venture for that, meaning having a completed tunnel into the U.S. is, you know, worth its weight in gold.
00:26:55One single load would pay for whatever expenses they incurred multiple times over.
00:27:02Classic example is the Cahier de Lina tunnel, where we found 34 tons of marijuana.
00:27:08At that time, I believe it had a 60 million plus estimated value.
00:27:14Cost would probably be about a million tops, is what I've heard.
00:27:18So, it's just, you do the math, that's a huge profit margin.
00:27:21One load.
00:27:22By 1989, El Chapo's smuggling tons of cocaine and marijuana through tunnels like these, and many other inventive methods.
00:27:35With his flair for logistics, he earns a brand new nickname.
00:27:38He became known as El Rapido, so he could move cocaine loads very, very quickly, from Colombia through Mexico to the United States.
00:27:46It's said that before the planes are back in Colombia, his coke is already in Los Angeles.
00:27:53Wires were tingling with the name El Chapo Guzman.
00:27:58Chapo's savvy earns him another promotion in Mexico's Guadalajara cartel.
00:28:03Now in his mid-30s, he's reportedly making millions of dollars.
00:28:07And so, El Chapo starts living the high life.
00:28:12He's got cars, planes, dozens of houses, and throws extravagant bashes, where he's known to fly in prostitutes for the occasion.
00:28:20He used to rent a complete floor in one hotel in Guadalajara or Puerto Vallarta and make huge parties.
00:28:29And he was very young.
00:28:31And I think that he didn't know what to do with all that money and power.
00:28:38While Chapo's living large, U.S. and Mexican officials are working hard to crack down on drug smuggling.
00:28:48And in November 1989, they catch a break.
00:28:51And from Mexico tonight, news of what may be a major victory in the war on drugs, the arrest of a man called the kingpin behind a drug pipeline into the United States.
00:29:03Felix Gallardo, El Chapo's boss, is sentenced to prison for 40 years on drug trafficking, bribery, and weapons charges.
00:29:11Mexican authorities say that Felix Gallardo ran the ring that funneled Colombian cocaine through Mexico into this country.
00:29:19Two tons of cocaine every month.
00:29:21Now, there's a power vacuum at the top of the Guadalajara cartel.
00:29:26And Chapo is about to seize his moment.
00:29:29Everyone else seemed to be content with their little patch.
00:29:32Not him.
00:29:33It's a power grab world.
00:29:36And Chapo went for the grab.
00:29:47In just 15 years, El Chapo Guzman has risen to become one of Mexico's major drug smugglers into the U.S., flooding American streets with cocaine and marijuana.
00:29:59By November 1989, he's a top lieutenant in the Guadalajara cartel when his boss, kingpin Felix Gallardo, is sentenced to 40 years behind bars.
00:30:12Recognizing a void in power, Chapo is poised to seize the moment.
00:30:19U.S. officials are praising Mexico for the arrest of a man said to be one of the world's biggest drug dealers.
00:30:24But right before his arrest, knowing his days were numbered, Gallardo called Mexico's crime families to a meeting in Acapulco.
00:30:34His plan? To carve up the country into turfs.
00:30:38Once he was imprisoned, the Guadalajara cartel splintered into various organizations.
00:30:46Each group gets a corridor to the all-important U.S. border.
00:30:52There's a Tijuana cartel, a Juarez cartel, a Gulf cartel.
00:30:58And El Chapo and his partners form the Sinaloa cartel, covering the corridor from Sinaloa and Sonora into Arizona.
00:31:06The division seems to make sense, but it will actually set off a chain of narco wars that are still going on.
00:31:16There is no honor among thieves.
00:31:19These alliances fracture very, very quickly.
00:31:22We're talking about massive amounts of power, incredible amounts of ego.
00:31:26In 1992, Chapo is looking to expand his territory and makes a bold move into Tijuana.
00:31:35The port of entry between Tijuana and San Diego is the most lucrative corridor for drugs coming in from Mexico into the United States.
00:31:47Because you traffic drugs into California, you reach San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco.
00:31:55Meanwhile, Chapo Guzman was moving drugs to Arizona.
00:31:58It's obviously not quite as profitable.
00:32:02Chapo's infiltration into Tijuana will put him up against some tough adversaries, the Arellano-Felix brothers.
00:32:10They had a reputation for real, real thuggery.
00:32:14They'd be sitting in a bar, and they would say, you know, I feel like killing someone. Let's go.
00:32:21And so, a vicious turf war begins.
00:32:25What was a rivalry turned into bloodshed between Chapo Guzman and the Arellano-Felix brothers.
00:32:31Chapo Guzman sends emissaries to meet with the Arellano-Felix brothers, and they kill these emissaries.
00:32:40And that is what started the blood feud.
00:32:42They started waging war between themselves.
00:32:47The Tijuana cartel put a hit out on El Chapo Guzman, recognizing him as an up-and-comer and a threat to their continued dominance.
00:32:54In early November 1992, Chapo is driving down a busy avenue in downtown Guadalajara.
00:33:00A white pickup pulls up, and Ramon Arellano-Felix and four gunmen jump out and open fire.
00:33:10Chapo's car is riddled with bullets, but the armor plating holds, and he survives.
00:33:17A few days later, he strikes back.
00:33:23At the disco Christine nightclub in Puerto Vallarta, a party is underway for two of the Arellano-Felix brothers.
00:33:30Three hundred guests are dancing and drinking.
00:33:34Chapo's hitmen burst in, dressed in police uniforms, a deadly deception.
00:33:40Then, they open fire.
00:33:43When the shooting stops, a half dozen people are dead on the dance floor.
00:33:50The conflict between the Arellano-Felix brothers and Chapo developed into a mafia-type arrangement,
00:33:56where, you know, Chapo would try and have one of them killed,
00:33:59and they would send someone to Sinaloa to try and have him killed.
00:34:01The violence comes to a head in May 1993.
00:34:09The ongoing feud escalated.
00:34:12They sent a hit team to execute El Chapo Guzman.
00:34:16The Arellano-Felix brothers contracted some thugs from the San Diego area known as the Logan Heights Gang.
00:34:26The hitmen have been trying and failing to track Chapo down.
00:34:30When they get a call, they had word that El Chapo Guzman was at the airport in Guadalajara
00:34:37and that he would be riding in a white sedan.
00:34:41They came across that sedan and opened fire.
00:34:45But in the crossfire, Chapo, the master of escape, makes his way under cars to the terminal.
00:34:52And in the confusion, the assassins hit a very different target.
00:34:58A Roman Catholic cardinal.
00:35:00It became a horrific assassination that sent headlines around the world.
00:35:07For over two decades, Joaquin Guzman Loera, king of the narco supertunnel,
00:35:23has been making his mark as a leading transporter of cocaine into the United States.
00:35:29But the drug lord, now in his 30s, wants to expand his territory.
00:35:34In May 1993, El Chapo is in a bloody battle with rivals over Tijuana, a key corridor into the U.S. drug market.
00:35:46A hit is ordered to take him out at the Guadalajara airport.
00:35:50But when the assassins open fire, they get a shock.
00:35:54El Chapo Guzman was not in that vehicle.
00:35:56He was in another vehicle.
00:35:57In that vehicle was the archbishop of Guadalajara.
00:36:03The cardinal, Posada Socampo, is just getting out of his car and they hit him 14 times with rounds from AK-47s.
00:36:14Two suspects are in custody this morning in Guadalajara following a shootout that left at least seven people dead,
00:36:20among them a Roman Catholic cardinal.
00:36:22Authorities think the shootout may have been a battle between rival gangs of drug traffickers.
00:36:29Mexico is stunned.
00:36:32The shooting receives international coverage.
00:36:35The then-Mexican president was so outraged at this assassination
00:36:40that he bowed to bring the full force and effect of the Mexican government down on the narco traffickers.
00:36:50Rumors swirl about the cardinal's death, that perhaps it wasn't an accident at all.
00:36:57Some experts believe that the real target was the cardinal himself.
00:37:01They allege he held a list of Mexican government officials with ties to organized crime.
00:37:07There are many conspiracy theories that really killed the cardinal because he had some information.
00:37:13Apparently, the cardinal has a list of people related with the president that receive money from the drug cartels.
00:37:22But the government insists the cartels are behind it all.
00:37:26There was a lot of pressure following the killing of the cardinal to detain some significant drug traffickers.
00:37:43Chapo's cronies haven't been happy with his feud over Tijuana.
00:37:48To them, he seems like the perfect scapegoat.
00:37:51The government said, OK, we have to put someone in jail.
00:37:55It's an international scandal.
00:37:57We have to do something.
00:37:59And they said, well, Chapo just brings problems.
00:38:04We can't control him.
00:38:06And so Chapo is offered up as a fall guy for this, a crime he didn't commit.
00:38:11And the first massive manhunt for Joaquin Chapo Guzman begins.
00:38:19Chapo Guzman, realizing that the heat was on, decided to hightail it, crossed the border with Guatemala,
00:38:28paid off a Guatemalan official over $1 million to keep it a secret.
00:38:33But hiding in Guatemala, he'll soon be double-crossed when that official pockets the money
00:38:39and tips off the DEA, which alerts local authorities.
00:38:46We provide the Guatemalans the information, and he is arrested in a local hotel in Guatemala.
00:38:55On June 9, 1993, Chapo Guzman is unceremoniously bound and bundled into a pickup truck by the Guatemalans
00:39:07and dumped just over the Mexican border.
00:39:11The Mexican military was waiting on the other side with all the pomp and circumstance of the Mexican military.
00:39:17They were in full-dress uniforms, and all of a sudden, they see a rustic, beat-up old pickup truck coming down the road,
00:39:27and they see that Chapo Guzman is in the bed of the truck, rolling around, you know, getting, you know, battered and bruised.
00:39:37El Chapo is arrested and sentenced to 20 years for conspiracy, bribery, and drug trafficking.
00:39:47Suddenly, he was a name, a real name.
00:39:51Lo capturan en Guatemala en el 93 mismo, en junio, y a partir de ahí se construye la leyenda.
00:39:59Through the 1990s, Chapo's legend starts to grow, operating out of cell 307, Block C3,
00:40:09in the maximum security prison at Puente Grande.
00:40:12There's been good documentation to show an incredible network of bribery by Chapo Guzman of prison officials.
00:40:22He was very adept at knowing who to bribe and how to bribe them.
00:40:27If you're a guard, you're earning, you know, $15,000 a year, what are you going to do?
00:40:33If he's offered you money, you can take the money and be corrupt.
00:40:35Or you can report it to someone who you have no idea whether you can trust that person.
00:40:41Those who turn down Chapo Guzman's generosity do so at their own risk.
00:40:47We will pay you handsomely for that.
00:40:49We will make you very, very rich.
00:40:52And if you decline our offer, we will kill you.
00:40:56Or even worse, we will murder your wife and your daughters and your sons.
00:41:01You take your money or you take your bullet.
00:41:07Seduction.
00:41:08Intimidation.
00:41:10That's Chapo's way of doing business.
00:41:13Inside the prison and out.
00:41:15Chapo has a lot of people in various parts of the governments, all over Mexico.
00:41:22In my day, we had the chief of police of Mexico's federal judicial district.
00:41:27A trafficker.
00:41:29So corruption can go to the highest levels.
00:41:33The end result?
00:41:35Inside one of the toughest prisons in Mexico,
00:41:38El Chapo is living a life most only dream of.
00:41:41He was able to essentially live in a presidential suite of sorts during his incarceration.
00:41:47Within weeks of Chapo's arrival, the prison guards were calling him jefe or boss.
00:41:57He had parties.
00:41:58He had the best food that he wanted that was brought in and cooked by private chefs.
00:42:04And there are women, lots of women, sent to the prison, including a steady rotation of prostitutes
00:42:12for himself and others, even the guards, as seen in these security camera images.
00:42:18He used to get the visit of the many women in the jail and make sexual competitions with
00:42:27other people that was in jail who had more sex during the day than the other.
00:42:33He was able to enjoy a lot of relationships with female staff, even cleaning staff.
00:42:41There was one particular female prisoner who he fell in love with and wrote love letters
00:42:46to data.
00:42:50Meanwhile, it's business as usual for Chapo and the Sinaloa cartel, controlling the flow of
00:42:56drugs across the border into Arizona.
00:42:58Using cell phones, using couriers, using a computer, he was still fully operating and functioning
00:43:05as the de facto leader of the Sinaloa cartel while imprisoned in Jalisco.
00:43:11And then, a pivotal moment in Chapo's career, when a bullet brings down Colombian kingpin Pablo
00:43:19Escobar.
00:43:20The death of Pablo Escobar in December of 1993 created an opening for the Sinaloa cartel and
00:43:30Chapo Guzman at its helm.
00:43:34Chapo Guzman's genius is that he saw the Medellin cartel fall apart and he realized that the Sinaloa
00:43:41cartel could control that trade into the United States.
00:43:45He saw that Mexican traffickers could actually dominate the market.
00:43:52All through the mid to late 1990s, Chapo's men start moving more and more narcotics as
00:43:58he calls the shots from the inside.
00:44:00They began to buy the cocaine in Colombia for about $2,000 a kilo and sell that on the border
00:44:07of the United States for about $30,000.
00:44:10So these vast profits of cocaine that used to go to the Colombians were now staying largely
00:44:15in the hands of Mexican traffickers.
00:44:18Meanwhile, U.S. authorities have been tracking this activity, and soon they decide to make
00:44:28their move.
00:44:29Even though he's in a Mexican jail, El Chapo is indicted in Arizona and California for drug
00:44:36trafficking and money laundering.
00:44:39By 2001, as officials put the wheels in motion to extradite the drug lord to the U.S., he tries
00:44:46to cut a deal.
00:44:47They don't want to serve time in the United States, it's hard time.
00:44:56So one of our agents traveled to Fuente Grande, escorted into a waiting room, and then they
00:45:04bring in Chapo Guzman, immediately gets on the floor and looks underneath the door to make
00:45:11sure that nobody's listening.
00:45:14And then he makes an offer, he says, look, if you don't extradite me to the United States,
00:45:21I will give you all of the routes that I have, and I will tell you all of the high-ranking
00:45:29Mexican officials that I have been paying off.
00:45:32But the U.S. government isn't biting.
00:45:35The DEA turns him down.
00:45:36We were not going to strike a deal with him because we want him in the United States.
00:45:42If he were extradited to the United States, it would be game over for him.
00:45:48Out of options, Chapo begins to think about a great escape.
00:45:50For the last eight years, drug lord El Chapo Guzman has been running the powerful Sinaloa cartel
00:46:05from behind bars of a Mexican prison, but he's still a wanted man in America.
00:46:12With trafficking indictments in California and Arizona, U.S. authorities are pushing to
00:46:17extradite the kingpin to the States and bring him to trial.
00:46:23Out of options, Chapo makes a bold move.
00:46:25There's an individual that walks up to a cell with a laundry cart.
00:46:31Chapo Guzman jumps in, they cover him with towels and dirty laundry, and wheels him out of
00:46:38the penitentiary into a car.
00:46:43They leave the area, they stop at a gas station, and the driver goes in to buy water, which Chapo
00:46:52Guzman requested.
00:46:53And when he came out, Chapo Guzman had gone into the night.
00:46:59After 9 p.m. on that January 2001 night, El Chapo Guzman is gone.
00:47:08Word spreads about his daring laundry cart escape, but others later say the prison break
00:47:14is even more brazen, that he simply walks out the door disguised as a policeman.
00:47:21Mexican authorities are stunned as their investigation uncovers widespread corruption within the prison,
00:47:27with alleged payoffs running into the millions, from prison guards to the highest levels of
00:47:32the Mexican government.
00:47:34He escaped from Puente Grande, and none of the other guys have.
00:47:39The godfather, Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, who once ran the drug trade, is still sitting
00:47:44in prison, yet Chapo got out.
00:47:46And so the myth of the elusive El Chapo, the escape artist, is born.
00:47:53The fact that he was able to escape from a maximum security prison just lends greater support
00:47:59for his mystique.
00:48:00People have always been fascinated by the bandido, the bad guy, from Pancho Villa to the godfather
00:48:09to Al Capone, and now El Chapo.
00:48:14On the run, Chapo goes underground, and on the offensive.
00:48:19In the eight years Chapo was behind bars, there was an unspoken truce amongst the Mexican cartels.
00:48:26But now, the turf wars reignite.
00:48:29He decided that he was going to expand his territory and take over a lot of these major
00:48:36corridors into the United States, because he could expand his business.
00:48:41In early 2002, Chapo's bitter rival, the Tijuana cartel, suffers a loss when one of the Arellano
00:48:51Felix brothers is killed in a shootout with the police.
00:48:54Some believe the authorities are intentionally going after Chapo's enemies.
00:48:59Either way, Chapo finally takes control of the Tijuana territory he's coveted for years.
00:49:05The Sinaloa cartel fought a very, very vicious war against the Tijuana cartel.
00:49:10Really beat them, bloodied them into near submission.
00:49:14And that's just the start.
00:49:16Looking to expand his power, Chapo goes after the Gulf cartel in the east.
00:49:21I think it's a business calculation.
00:49:22He probably saw the risks and said, okay, I'll lose some people, but we're going to gain
00:49:27this turf.
00:49:30Chapo's team of hitmen move in.
00:49:32But they're met by the Zetas, the Gulf cartel's army of mercenaries.
00:49:37Chapo Guzman sent gang members, guys with tattoos and shaved heads to try and take this territory.
00:49:44But the Zetas reacted with extreme violence and they changed the nature of the fighting
00:49:51in Mexico.
00:49:52Many of Chapo's men are taken down in this ongoing battle against the Zetas.
00:49:57Meanwhile, Chapo is still hungry for Texas and sets his sights on the Juarez cartel, the
00:50:03gatekeepers of El Paso.
00:50:07Over the next five years, the narco wars reach an unprecedented level of violence.
00:50:12You never saw that kind of pictures before the war.
00:50:17People without head, people hanging in public places.
00:50:22I mean, horrible things.
00:50:24In Juarez alone, there are reportedly an average of eight murders a day.
00:50:28A death toll that will one day reach 11,000.
00:50:32And in the entire country, that number will top 100,000.
00:50:37The slaughter was just wholesale and the blood was running into the draining systems there
00:50:44in Juarez at that time.
00:50:46Mucho narcos y poco gobierno lo que hay aquí.
00:50:49Ya no puede salir uno a la calle pensando en que, pues que va pasar.
00:50:54By the late 2000s, Chapo's forces dominate in the fight against the Juarez cartel.
00:51:05Seize in control of the Texas border, Chapo makes a savvy business decision.
00:51:10Anticipating legalization of marijuana in certain states, they shifted to production of heroin and methamphetamine.
00:51:19That ability to pivot, to sense changes in the market, to be nimble and quick and adroit, is what truly distinguishes the Sinaloa Cartel from all of the other cartels.
00:51:32The Sinaloa Cartel brings heroin into the United States, through Texas, up Arkansas, Missouri, into Illinois, and to Chicago.
00:51:45Chicago is one of Chapo's main hubs where drugs can be distributed to almost any part of the country in a matter of days.
00:51:52You've got two international airports, you've got a really large train network, you've got eight interstate highways that intersect here, and you have the third largest Mexican-American population in the country.
00:52:07Chapo entrusts the Chicago operation to a family with ties to the Golden Triangle.
00:52:15The Sinaloa Cartel was very savvy in establishing a bulkhead, essentially, in Chicago, through two Mexican-American twin brothers, Margarito and Pedro Flores.
00:52:30They decided to become really, really sophisticated drug traffickers, and they were.
00:52:37It's alleged that those two twin brothers alone brought $2 billion worth of narcotics and drugs into the Chicago area.
00:52:49The effects are startling. Over the next 10 years, violence and murder rates in Chicago's South Side skyrocket, as gangbangers selling Chapo's drugs kill to protect their turf.
00:53:02Meanwhile, the Sinaloa Cartel's highly addictive black tar heroin is causing an extraordinary number of overdoses.
00:53:11Addiction is incredibly prevalent. You have people who are seizing on the misery, right?
00:53:17If there's money to be made, people are taking advantage of it.
00:53:20Realizing the scope of the problem, Chicago authorities will soon declare El Chapo public enemy number one.
00:53:28The last time we've done that was with Al Capone, and Capone is a minor figure in the world of crime compared to Chapo Guzman.
00:53:40Al Capone killed people who were in the game. This drug is killing our kids.
00:53:48Enough is enough. This man has got to be caught.
00:53:512007. Fugitive kingpin Chapo Guzman is one of the most wanted men in America.
00:54:07As the main supplier of marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamine and heroin into the United States, he's built his drug trafficking business into an empire.
00:54:18An estimated 150,000 people work for Chapo's Sinaloa Cartel in 50 countries around the world, including the U.S.
00:54:27It's an illegal enterprise, but he's a CEO.
00:54:30Never seen a criminal entity this powerful, this wealthy, this vicious.
00:54:36El Chapo has become so big that Forbes magazine will soon list him as one of the elite billionaires and most powerful people in the world.
00:54:47The big news there is that we put on a drug trafficker and his name is Joaquin El Chapo Guzman Loera.
00:54:56He is not available for interviews because he's on the run.
00:55:02The Sinaloa Cartel has the most diversified money laundering portfolio of any organized crime network in the world.
00:55:12They do commodities training. They buy gold. They buy diamonds. They have daycare centers. They have shopping centers.
00:55:21You know, they have horse farms, agricultural farms, and a lot of banks.
00:55:30An international criminal, Chapo has grown larger than life, making him even more of a folk hero back home in Culiacan.
00:55:37Chapo Guzman is a robin hood to the people of Mexico, particularly the poor people.
00:55:46He has built churches, soccer fields. He has provided low-income housing for individuals.
00:55:58A mythical fugitive, Chapo is even said to come out of hiding every so often.
00:56:05He has, on occasion, been known to enter a restaurant with all of his bodyguards, demand that all of the patrons in that restaurant enjoying their meals surrender their cell phones.
00:56:15In walks Chapo and has a quiet meal and, you know, will at least respectfully pay your bar tab for the inconvenience.
00:56:24In January 2007, Chapo arranges to go to an annual festival in a neighboring village.
00:56:33Security is tight. Allegedly, 200 henchmen toting AK-47s close down roads to protect their boss.
00:56:42There he meets up with 17-year-old Emma Coronel, the pageant queen of the fair.
00:56:47Chapo is known as a ladies man. He's been married at least twice before and is said to have had at least ten children.
00:57:07His courtship with Emma is swift, and within a year, on her 18th birthday, she becomes the 53-year-old crime boss's next wife.
00:57:20Emma, she was almost a child when she got married with Chapo Guzman. She looks very innocent and pure.
00:57:29Many believe Emma and Chapo's union is arranged to strengthen a family alliance.
00:57:36Although Emma denies the claims, her uncle is said to be murdered drug lord Ignacio Coronel, infamous for building Sinaloa's mega meth labs.
00:57:45Emma Coronel has grown up in the drug trade. Her father was a lieutenant under Chapo.
00:57:53Her brother is incarcerated on drug trafficking charges.
00:57:59But American-born Emma says her husband is not the dangerous kingpin the world has made him out to be.
00:58:06Chapo Guzman, like most drug traffickers, will take a life without flinching.
00:58:25But when it comes to their families, they adore their families and they will protect their families.
00:58:32But as El Chapo continues to expand his empire, it's family that threatens to tear it apart.
00:58:40For years, Chapo's cousins, the Beltran Leyvas, have worked the Arizona border for the Sinaloa Cartel.
00:58:49It's a relationship that dates all the way back to when Chapo first got into the drug game.
00:58:55As a young teenager, the Beltran Leyvas helped him grow marijuana.
00:59:00Nearly 40 years later, greed and jealousy unravel the alliance.
00:59:05In January 2008, the Beltran Leyvas allegedly start moving loads to the US behind Chapo's back, undermining his authority.
00:59:16The Beltran Leyvas brothers, they were controlling as much dope and as much territory as Chapo was back.
00:59:23The betrayals start when the business became bigger. So the cake was really good and you don't want to share the cake anymore.
00:59:39It seems like for Chapo Guzman to consolidate his power in the cartel, it was necessary to confront the Beltran Leyvas brothers.
00:59:47Chapo Guzman takes it to the next level when he reportedly informs on his cousin Alfredo Beltran Leyva, sending the police to nab him.
01:00:05The Beltran Leyvas accuse Chapo of treason and viciously retaliate.
01:00:09Chapo Guzman's son, Edgar Guzman, who was a college student, was gunned down and murdered in Kulakan Sinaloa.
01:00:22The death of his son rocks Chapo Guzman to the core.
01:00:28It became a very personal battle between Beltran Leyvas and Chapo Guzman.
01:00:32And now a family feud escalates into an all-out war as Chapo's henchmen carry out retaliation killings.
01:00:42When Edgar Guzman, who was murdered, the people of Sinaloa knew the bloodshed of that would be immense.
01:00:49And there were shootouts happening right near the central square.
01:00:52The town have been this crazy tit-for-tat against the people of Beltran Leyvas, particularly Arturo Beltran Leyva.
01:01:08After hundreds of deaths in Sinaloa, the war comes to a head in December of 2009, when an informant tips off the Mexican Marines to the whereabouts of Arturo Beltran Leyva.
01:01:23The Mexican Marines stormed an apartment building and shot dead Arturo Beltran Leyva and some of his cohorts.
01:01:32The Sinaloa Cartel fractures and members are forced to pledge allegiance to either Chapo and his men or the remaining Beltran Leyva brothers.
01:01:45It's like a divorce. You don't know if you go with your mother or your father.
01:01:50They start becoming a free-for-all and a very, very bloody place.
01:01:54During the war, wholesale drug traffickers like the Flores brothers from Chicago had found themselves caught in the crossfire.
01:02:04When drug cartels leave piles of severed heads in the center of a town, when they leave bodies hanging from bridges, they're sending different messages to different people.
01:02:15The Flores brothers were in a really, really hard place. They were working with Chapo Guzman on the one hand, and they were working with Arturo Beltran Leyva on the other.
01:02:26And that they'd been given ultimatums from each side that they were to do business with that side or nobody at all. And that was a no-win proposition for them.
01:02:36The Flores brothers decide to take the only out they can to gain protection from U.S. authorities by becoming informants.
01:02:50The Flores brothers collectively were moving between 1,500 and 2,000 kilos a month from Chicago. It was draw-dropping. It's a lot of dope.
01:03:00It doesn't take them long to get El Chapo to discuss the price of a heroin shipment on a recorded line.
01:03:07When that voice ID came in and we knew we had him, DA and I did a little backflip.
01:03:15We had the world's most wanted criminal on tape.
01:03:20With the list of indictments against Chapo and his cartel growing since they first came down in 1994,
01:03:25prosecutors now have evidence to build an even stronger case against the drug lord in the United States.
01:03:33But Chapo, who's been underground since escaping prisons seven years ago, is still at large, and he's even more elusive than ever.
01:03:42It was very difficult to capture Chapo Usman in those mountains because if these people saw any unusual movement, Chapo Usman would know within minutes.
01:03:49It was very difficult to capture Chapo Usman in those mountains because if these people saw any unusual movement, Chapo Usman would know within minutes.
01:04:06When you arrive in Sinaloa, there's a clear network of informants going on there.
01:04:13There are people at the airport who are documenting who's coming in.
01:04:16He had a very large security apparatus, hundreds of bodyguards in concentric circles throughout the Golden Triangle.
01:04:27We attempted to capture him twice.
01:04:33Chapo Usman and his men, about 40 or 50 of them, jumped into these all-terrain vehicles and scattered like cockroaches.
01:04:44So, you know, they didn't know which one was Chapo Usman.
01:04:47That's as close as authorities will get to El Chapo for another five years.
01:04:54Finally, in 2014, with the U.S. pressuring the Mexican government to capture the world's most wanted criminal, they get a break.
01:05:05Intelligence operatives learn the Sinaloa boss has come down from the mountains and is rotating among six safe houses in Culiacan.
01:05:14Here's a man who's worth over a billion dollars.
01:05:20He's got a beauty queen wife who's 32 years younger than he is.
01:05:26She wants to go to restaurants, she wants to go shopping.
01:05:30So, he goes to Culiacan, mistake number one.
01:05:36U.S. and Mexican forces surround the city, ready to take down the fugitive once and for all.
01:05:42For 13 long years, U.S. and Mexican authorities have been trying to track down one of the most notorious criminals of the 21st century.
01:06:02Chicago's public enemy number one, drug lord Joaquin Guzman Loera.
01:06:10After a series of near misses, a joint special ops task force has El Chapo in its sights at one of his safe houses in Culiacan.
01:06:19On February 16th, 2014, the mission begins.
01:06:28When the Marines raided a house in Culiacan, the doors had steel bars.
01:06:37They were completely reinforced.
01:06:38It reportedly takes the Marines 10 minutes to penetrate the compound.
01:06:44By that time, Chapo Guzman, using the bathtub with hydraulic lifts, had gone down into the draining system of the city and escaped.
01:06:56Chapo gets away yet again.
01:07:00But for his trackers, not all is lost.
01:07:04One of his lieutenants is captured and he tips off authorities, leading U.S. and Mexican forces to the beachfront resort of Mazatlan.
01:07:12We knew he was the air because of telephone conversations and then some of his sicarios or confidence provided information.
01:07:23Authorities then intercept a text message pinpointing El Chapo's exact location.
01:07:31On February 22nd, 2014, just after six o'clock on a Saturday morning, they make their move.
01:07:38So the Marines go to this condominium complex called the Miramar.
01:07:48They kick down the door.
01:07:50He was there with his wife, Emma Coronel, their daughters.
01:07:55El Chapo was caught completely unawares.
01:07:57Nada más apuntándome a mí con las armas que...
01:08:02Dónde estaba...
01:08:04Dónde estaba el Chapo.
01:08:06Chapo Guzman has an AK-47 right next to his bed, and he looks at it, but then thinks twice,
01:08:13because he knew that, you know, he would die before he even touched the AK-47.
01:08:17Pues estaba un poco desesperada por mis hijos, más que nada.
01:08:21Que le fueron a hacer algo, no sabía que iba a pasar.
01:08:24Emma Coronel started yelling at the Marines,
01:08:26Don't kill him, don't kill him, he's my husband.
01:08:30Within minutes, Operation Gargoyle is over.
01:08:34No shots were fired.
01:08:36Nobody was injured.
01:08:37Y les dijo, Tranquilos, aquí estoy.
01:08:40Los posaron, los sometieron, y nos bajaron abajo.
01:08:44After more than 4,700 days on the run, El Chapo has finally been caught.
01:08:58Hoy, a 6.40 de la mañana, elementos de la Secretaría de Marina detuvieron a Joaquín Guzmán.
01:09:06Loera.
01:09:09Taken into custody, Chapo makes a startling admission.
01:09:14El Chapo Guzmán told the Mexican Marines that he himself was directly responsible for the murders of 2,000 to 3,000 Mexican citizens.
01:09:25El Chapo was sent to Altiplano Prison, Mexico's only supermax facility.
01:09:30It's said to be escape proof.
01:09:34For U.S. and Mexican authorities, it's a sweet victory.
01:09:38The first time he got caught in 2014 was probably the best day I've had on his job in 30 years.
01:09:44But not everyone is happy.
01:09:50When El Chapo Guzmán was arrested, it was not met with cheers or celebrations in Sinaloa State.
01:09:56It was met with great sadness.
01:10:00Masses take to the street in protest.
01:10:03They demand the return of their hero.
01:10:07A man who rose to be one of the world's elite billionaires with only a third grade education.
01:10:12Con la justicia no hay confianza aquí.
01:10:16Tenemos respeto.
01:10:18Más que nada.
01:10:20Estamos apoyando porque es muy buen señor para nosotros.
01:10:22And they're demanding his release because he is seen as a folk hero of sorts.
01:10:26Charged with multiple counts of cocaine trafficking, El Chapo could face up to 400 years behind bars.
01:10:36But the master of escape has no intention of serving his time.
01:10:40He started to plan his escape almost immediately.
01:10:45Using his far-reaching power, Chapo enlists an elite team of German engineers to help design the perfect escape route.
01:10:53His team sets up shop in Santa Bonita to begin construction on Chapo's most remarkable tunnel to date.
01:11:04They bought a piece of property about a mile away from the penitentiary.
01:11:08And they built a rustic cinder block house.
01:11:13And that's when they started to build the tunnel.
01:11:16Over the next 16 months, 350 truckloads of sand and dirt are hauled away as the team methodically digs towards Chapo's cell.
01:11:28It said prison blueprints guide the way.
01:11:30They had to have the floor plans.
01:11:34Why? Because they needed to know where the water lines were.
01:11:39They needed to know where the electrical lines were.
01:11:42They also used sophisticated surveying equipment.
01:11:46And it's a system that shoots out a laser.
01:11:50With this equipment, they can tunnel two or three miles and have a variance of maybe six to eight inches.
01:11:58And that's why they were able to pinpoint Chapo's cell right into the shower.
01:12:03And then on July 15th, 2015, El Chapo Guzman makes that epic escape.
01:12:12Vanishing out of his cell and into thin air.
01:12:18Setting an international manhunt into motion.
01:12:22Chapo is out and on the loose.
01:12:26He's like a cat. He has many lives.
01:12:33The latest tonight on the drug kingpin El Chapo, who remains one of the most wanted men in the world.
01:12:44July 2015.
01:12:46Notorious narco kingpin El Chapo, who's Sinaloa cartel is the leading trafficker of drugs into the United States,
01:12:54makes international headlines with his daring escape out of Mexico's maximum security prison, Altiplano.
01:13:01We're here today to voice our extreme displeasure at the Mexican authorities for the escape of one of the most dangerous criminals in the world.
01:13:17The tunnel escape is signature Chapo, complete with the motorcycle that runs a mile on rails.
01:13:23I expected nothing less. That's just his style. Tunnel was perfect.
01:13:30Like his first prison escape back in 2001, he's had help from the inside.
01:13:36Prison officials ignored motion sensor alarms and the sound of jackhammers.
01:13:41My reaction was how do you build a tunnel, which is a pretty loud venture up into a prison without, you know, the prison officials knowing.
01:13:57El Chapo did not escape because there were blind spots. He escaped because some people on the spot decided to be blind.
01:14:05Publicly humiliated, authorities launched the largest manhunt in Mexico's history.
01:14:11Six months and several near misses later, the chase comes to a head in the seaside town of Los Mochis.
01:14:20On January 8th, 2016, Mexican Marines raid that safe house where Chapo and his men are hiding.
01:14:28But at some point during the hour long gun battle that leaves five people dead, Chapo and his top lieutenant escape.
01:14:45They flee into a secret passage beneath the house and follow a tunnel that leads to the sewer system.
01:14:51There was a dramatic rainstorm.
01:14:55The water level in the sewer started rising.
01:14:59El Chapo Guzman found himself up to his neck in human waste and was forced to pop out about half a mile away in the middle of a street through a manhole cover.
01:15:10We now know he was with one of his most prized lieutenants, Ivan El Cholo.
01:15:15They hijacked a Volkswagen.
01:15:17The getaway is all caught on camera in this footage released by the Mexican government.
01:15:22But they only get a few blocks before smoke starts pouring out of the car.
01:15:28He gets one of the worst cars in Los Mochis that breaks down, you know, just a few hundred feet from where he commandeered it.
01:15:37And Chapo Guzman has got to be thinking this is the worst day of my life.
01:15:41The men hurry to hijack a second car, a red Ford Focus.
01:15:47Then they take off heading south down Highway 15.
01:15:51Calls were coming in to the local emergency control center about these carjackings.
01:15:56By this time, many people had seen federal Mexican Marines spreading throughout the city, heard the gunfire, knew that some sort of military operation was underway.
01:16:06As heavily armed troops surround the area, a lookout notice for the two carjackers goes wide.
01:16:12Local police officers went to investigate these two carjackings and found the Ford Focus on the back of a flatbed truck.
01:16:25They also found El Chapo Guzman and Cholo Ivan in that car.
01:16:35The cops take Chapo and his man into custody, not realizing that they have detained the most wanted criminal in the world.
01:16:42I have been advised that El Chapo Guzman was threatening those local police officers.
01:16:51He told them, you must know who I am. You know how much money I have.
01:16:56Allegedly, El Chapo offers the police a life changing bribe to look the other way.
01:17:01And if you don't accept my generous offer, I'm not only going to kill you, I'm going to kill your wife and I'm going to torture, rape and kill your daughters.
01:17:09The police reportedly get a tip that dozens of cartel assassins are en route to free their boss.
01:17:17So they hide El Chapo and El Cholo in the first place they can find.
01:17:22They took both individuals, El Chapo and Cholo Ivan, to a sex motel where they could drive a car in and the garage door behind them would close.
01:17:30In the room with the satin bedspread, eight hours since escaping the Marine firefight, Chapo sits quietly, handcuffed.
01:17:40It could all be over in an instant if his hitmen swarm the motel, but the Marines get there first.
01:17:46Luckily, the Mexican Marines arrived, figured out what was happening, secured the situation.
01:17:55The fugitive drug lord, six months on the lam, are over.
01:18:00One of the officers takes a cell phone video to capture the moment.
01:18:06Those pictures being broadcast around the world tell the world that he ran for a long time, he's escaped before, but here is a defeated person.
01:18:18And that should do something, hopefully, to chip away at his folk hero status.
01:18:23The myth has ended. El Chapo has fallen.
01:18:41One of the most wanted and feared men in the world has been captured again, six months after his escape from a maximum security prison.
01:18:48January 8th, 2016. After 181 days on the run, Joaquin Guzman Loera has been recaptured in Mexico.
01:19:02America's most wanted criminal, the man responsible for flooding U.S. streets with an endless supply of narcotics, is paraded in front of the world.
01:19:11El Chapo is loaded onto a helicopter and flown back to Altiplano, the same prison he escaped from just six months earlier.
01:19:27President Enrique Peña Nieto tweets a message that resounds across the globe.
01:19:34Mission accomplished. We have him.
01:19:37This is a significant achievement for Mexico and a major step forward in our shared fight against transnational organized crime, violence and drug trafficking.
01:19:47This is an incredibly important arrest. It sends a incredibly strong message to narco traffickers or would-be narco traffickers around the world that a multinational coalition of nation states will not tolerate your brutality and your viciousness.
01:20:00Meanwhile, federal courts across the U.S. are waiting to get their chance to prosecute the world's top drug lord.
01:20:14If you look at everywhere from New York to San Diego, Chicago to Texas, Phoenix to Miami, there literally is probably not a single community in the United States that was not impacted by the trafficking of the Sinaloa organization.
01:20:28El Chapo Guzman faces seven different federal indictments issued by seven different federal grand juries for crimes involving narco trafficking, money laundering and murder.
01:20:46When Chapo Guzman finally goes on trial, ideally, I think in the United States, it'll be amazing what we find out if he talks.
01:20:55The list of those who have financially benefited from El Chapo is long and distinguished.
01:21:01I have every reason to believe that he will be extradited to the United States and that he will be convicted and that he will spend the rest of his life behind bars.
01:21:20The notorious drug lord Joaquin El Chapo Guzman has been moved to a new prison this morning and it's just across the border from El Paso, Texas.
01:21:30May 8th, 2016, a Mexican federal judge rules in favor of extradition to the United States.
01:21:40Hours later in the middle of the night, Chapo is secretly moved from Altiplano Supermax to a new prison in Juarez near the U.S. border.
01:21:49Authorities say it's for security reasons.
01:21:54Others fear this transfer could increase his chances for another escape, especially since Juarez is largely controlled by Chapo's Sinaloa cartel.
01:22:04I would be willing to bet that he has escape plans from every prison in Mexico.
01:22:09The prison system is as vulnerable to corruption and intimidation as it was before his last escape.
01:22:15Nothing fundamental has changed.
01:22:19It's a race between extradition or a new escape.
01:22:22My guess is that the Mexican authorities are really, really afraid that he might escape again.
01:22:30While the drug lord's future hangs in the balance, no matter how Joaquin Guzman Loera's personal story ends,
01:22:37it's not clear that anything will ever change.
01:22:40Let's be honest, if Mr. Guzman is incarcerated, is the Sinaloa cartel going to stop running narcotics into the U.S.?
01:22:47The answer is no.
01:22:49It still remains the most powerful, the most vicious, the wealthiest, and the scariest narco-trafficking organization around the globe.
01:22:59The Sinaloa cartel is like an NFL football team that is very strong and they have a strong bench.
01:23:08So even if the quarterback gets injured, there's another strong quarterback that can come in and run the team.
01:23:15As long as we have the consumers here in America spending $100 billion every year on cocaine, crystal meth, marijuana, and heroin,
01:23:28you're going to have people in Mexico trafficking drugs.
01:23:31And so even as the legend of El Chapo lives on, there's always another kid in another dusty village in the Golden Triangle just waiting to make his mark.
01:23:44In the words of El Chapo himself, this will never end.
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