VIDEO: boom and fall of "El Chapo" Guzmán

Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán was convicted on Tuesday, February 12, after six days of deliberations. The jury members determined that the former Sinaloa cartel leader was responsible for the 10 counts of indictment against him.

For more than 30 years, Guzmán Loera has trafficked tons of drugs from Central America and Mexico, and then into the United States and Canada. He did it in every possible way: in fishing boats, boats, planes designed to escape radar, pbadenger cars, freight trains, submarines, tractors and tunnels.

At one point, very few people could have imagined that this 15-year-old man, who was dedicated to the preservation of marijuana fields, would become one of the greatest figures in the history of crime in the world.

At the present time, there is not a single person in Mexico who has not heard his name. When we talk about drug traffickers and violence, the image of Guzmán Loera is one of the first that comes to mind.

For the writer Alejandro Almazán, co-author of the screenplay of the series "El Chapo" produced by Netflix, Guzmán has three key moments of his career. The first is where he began working with Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, leader of the late Guadalajara cartel and one of the leading cocaine drug traffickers in Mexico in the 1980s.

Amado Carrillo, Rafael Caro Quintero and Ismael Zambada García, May. "Hector" El Güero "Palma Salazar was, like the little sowers, drug traffickers and armed bandits, Joaquín Guzmán Loera, brothers Arellano Felix and brothers Beltrán Leyva ", writes Anabel Hernández in his book The lords of narco.

Several badysts agree that if other bosses such as Felix Gallardo, Rafael Caro Quintero and Ernesto Fonseca Carillo, "Don Neto" (all founders of the Guadalajara cartel) have not been arrested , probably they would have accounted for the history of drug trafficking in Mexico.

"But it was" El Chapo ".. And that's because only he and "El Mayo" Zambada survived while the others were falling, "said the writer.

The second episode was the death of the cardinal Juan Jesus Posadas Ocampo, murdered on May 24, 1993 at the airport of Guadalajara, because it would have been taken for Joaquín Guzmán.

"It is at this moment that the capo became "El Chapo" Guzmán. This is the moment that propelled him to glory, "said Almazán.

In time it would become "the narco who can do everythingeven to escape maximum security prisons. The leader of the drug would be perceived by society as a "Robin Hood", a kind of Pancho Villa, he's gangster and good at the same time ", explained Correa-Cabrera.

All this came to symbolize "El Chapo" in certain regions of Mexico, mainly in the most revered ones "Narcoculture"For many young people who grew up near the land where the founder of the Sinaloa cartel was born, the capo became an inspiration, a model.

This figure created by a hegemonic discourse, greatly strengthened by the media, it took shape until becoming the Mexican version of Pablo Escobar ",our Pablo Escobar. "

But there is also another parallel representation in this one with that of the hitman "Robin Hood". In the USA, key country in the history of drug trafficking, the figure created around the capo was totally different.

"Guzmán Loera was the evil, the ignorant, the brutes, the bandits who did not even know how to use a mobile phone, "said Guadalupe Correa.

However, for specialists, this is just a blanket that tries to hide the truth and sell the North American country as the most democratic and purest nation in the world.

"For the medicine to enter and be distributed in your country, there must be corruption. The reality is that in the United States, there are also police authorities and other types of local actors, "said Correa.

"DEA is the world's largest cartel", sentenced Alejandro Almazán.

According to the reporter, the anti-drug agency uses methods unethical to not lose control of its territory. "The DEA has formed alliances with drug dealers allowing them to put all the drugs in the country, in exchange for its control."

After the drunkenness caused by the image of bandit-hero that the media had sold to the people, the experts began to realize the reality.

"We all ate this bread, but then we realized that he was just another son of a bitch," Almazán explained. "This is not Robin Hood, let alone a good person"

For the badyst, the cappo is an important person in the history of the country because he came to make his entry into life, but for the worse.

"We owe a lot of the shit that is splashing now," he said.

The life of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán marked by persecutions, detentions and escapes. (Video: special)

The third key moment in the capodelite career was his spectacular escape from prisons, but it is also from these events that one can begin to talk about the fall of the drug trafficker.

On January 8, 2016, the Mexican Navy caught him for the third time, apparently permanently. A year later he was extradited to the United States and, according to Alejandro Almazán, it's because the state decided that "El Chapo" was no longer used.

Guadalupe-Correa, meanwhile, said that the lawsuit against the boss who ended Tuesday in a court in Brooklyn, New York, represents a symbolic point of view the fall of all these "good" drug traffickers who have moved away from the "gringos". "It represents the end of the traditional mythical figure ".

The real bosses of narco

Almazán is of the opinion that the true bosses of the narco are businessmen, bankers and politicians. "The mafia around the world is the one with the power, It has always been like this"

"Ciudad Juárez, Guadalajara, Mazatlan, Tijuana … Our cities are built with narco dollars"he explained.

"If we count all the cities where all the money that produces the drug is transferred, we would understand why this business will never cease to exist"He concluded.