El Chapo, Escaped Drug Lord, Has Been Recaptured
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I wouldn't be surprised if he just has an "accident" in the following months that leaves him dead and buried where he committed all this injustice: in Mexico.
Possibly it's the awe at the engineering marvel of his last escape tunnel. Anyway I'm guessing his luck and run out and betting he doesn't get away again.
(They kidnap engineers to build submarines for smuggling operations, too).
There is little here that is glamorous.
Alexander the Great and Napoleon weren't quite as evil as those two, but they invaded and forcibly took other people's lands for selfish reasons, killed and enslaved countless innocents, and committed many atrocities. Napoleon is even alleged to have tried to implement Hitler-style eugenics, and may have used poison gas to kill civilians. [1] Yet they're seen as historical heroes and are deeply admired by millions, or perhaps billions, of people.
Many people view Guzman in the same light. It's a form of cognitive dissonance, in a way, since those same people may still have deep moral objections to the acts they know the person has committed, and yet still can't help but sympathize with them.