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Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera is a true hacker, he continually breaks into the most secure country in the world by exploiting it's weaknesses.

"The cartel makes sandbag bridges to ford the Colorado River and sends buggies loaded with weed bouncing over the Imperial Sand Dunes into California."

Because of this, even when he is caught and send to a maximum security prison he is able to organize an escape by hacking the prison system.

"...[Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera] was transferred to the Puente Grande maximum security prison in Jalisco...Guzmán carefully masterminded his escape plan, wielding influence over almost everyone in the prison... The escape allegedly cost Joaquín $2.5 million... According to officials, 78 people have been implicated in his escape plan." - Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaqu%C3%ADn_Guzm%C3%A1n_Loera)

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Also notable are the stories of what he has done since his escape:

"In 2005 on a Saturday evening, Guzmán reportedly strolled into a restaurant in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, with several of his bodyguards. After he took his seat, his henchmen locked the doors of the restaurant, collected the cell phones of approximately 30 diners and instructed them to not be alarmed.[26] The gangsters then ate their meal and left – paying for everyone else in the restaurant.[27]"

(from the same wikipedia article, of course)

It sometimes blows my mind how much power money can buy. This gentleman seems to also have a powerful charm.

Not just a carrot, but a carrot and a stick. If you don't comply, your family and friends can and will be harmed.

It's a large reason why Mexico military forces stays anonymous by wearing balaclavas on duty and getting rid of the short hair requirement.

He also seems to have very ... sophisticated understanding of markets, supply chain maagement and logistics. that and a very healthy sense for risk management. One only has to tip his hat in the light of these operations. Which dosn't mean they don#t have to be stopped.

Maybe legalizing would help, but I'm not sure if legalizing heroine would actually do something good. what you have to do is to wreck havoc with their supply chain. But in order to do that you have to discard philosophie and biases first. Something I don't seen coming any time soon as long as politians all over the place only think in names in fugure hats.

As the article mentioned, removing Chapo won't do any good, the worst case ould be the zetas taking over his supply network and logistics, something that doesn#t thrill me a lot.

How you actually disruopt his operations, hard guess. At the minimum it would involve some serious leg work and analyzing. Continous analyzing and leg work. Again somethiing I don't see western law enforcement fit to do right now. and as long as intelligence is running their asses of in pursuite of some afghan hill billis that won't change anytime soon.

My 2 cents.

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