World’s Most Powerful Drug Trafficker Is Mexican Kingpin, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman

The U.S. Treasury Department is calling Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman “the world’s most powerful drug trafficker” Tuesday. The fugitive Sinaloa cartel leader also got a lift from Mexican actress Kate Del Castillo, who stated that she believes in Guzman more than in the government.

It was the latest in an bizarre series of compliments for Guzman, who is also on this year’s Forbes list of the world’s richest people, with an estimated fortune of $1 billion.

The U.S. Embassy in Mexico City gave a statement saying 3 of Guzman’s alleged associates had been slammed with sanctions under the drug Kingpin Act, which prohibits people in the U.S. from conducting businesses with them and freezes their U.S. assets. The 2 Mexican men and a Colombian purportedly aided Guzman’s trafficking operations.

Adam J. Szubin, who is the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control’s director, was quoted as saying the move “marks the fourth time in the past year that OFAC has targeted and exposed the support structures of the organization led by Chapo Guzman, the world’s most powerful drug trafficker.”

Guzman, who was able to escape from a Mexican prison in 2001 in a laundry truck and has a $7 million bounty on his head, has recognized for a long time as Mexico’s most powerful drug capo. Authorities state that his Sinaloa cartel has recently been expanding abroad, building international operations in Central and South America and the Pacific.

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