El Chapo's drug tunnels, explained
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Published 2019-01-29
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Throughout his career as a drug trafficker, tunnels have been the common theme in El Chapo’s story. When he gained control of a major drug trafficking corridor in the late 1980s, Joaquin Guzman Loera — then known as “el Rapido”— was the first to create super tunnels for transporting drugs across the border.
At the time, a crackdown by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) meant Colombian cocaine was in decline and the Mexican narcotrafficker saw an opportunity. By using tunnels to facilitate fast transport, El Chapo leveraged his role as a trafficker to claim new responsibilities as a cultivator and distributor of drugs.
Over the next twenty years, he learned how to use his drug tunnels in ways nobody had ever imagined and his success became dependent on his subterranean inclinations. Although his masterful use of tunnels led him to a maximum security jail cell at Altiplano prison, it would be tunnels that also led him back out again.
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When you get bored in prison “ ight ima head out”
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Everybody gangsta until El Chapo comes out of your toilet
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"That run on solar power" Mans saving the enviroment
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Everyone gangster until you’re taking a bath and el chapo comes from under you
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El Chapo has taken Minecraft to another level.
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america build a wall mexico build a tunnel
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even though he has done terrible things, you have to admit that his ideas are genius
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Imagine what his genius brain could’ve been used for if he wasn’t born into a drugwar
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Police: blinks El Chapo: ADIOS
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This man was reading them Minecraft handbooks
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Druglord.
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Imagine if this guy put his mind into doing something positive. He is smart
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At least the tunnel is solar powered!
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At least they use renewable energy 🤦♂️🤷♂️😭
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I like how he was just sitting on this bed and he fr said “aight imma head out”
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When they lit up that weed prolly had the whole village high asf
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He’s good at escaping but not hiding
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Media: "He's the tunnel king!" The people who actually dug the tunnel and broke him out: :(
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So this got recommended to everybody again, after his wife got arrested.
