MEXICAN AUTHORITIES HAVE CAPTURED EL CHAPO, LEADER OF
DRUG CARTELS WHO ESCAPED
MAXIMUM-SECURITY PRISONS NOT ONCE, BUT TWICE.
THE LAST TIME HE ESCAPED WAS IN JULY, 2015, BUT THANKFULLY THE
MILITARY IN MEXICO WAS ABLE TO FIND WHERE HE WAS AND THEY
CONDUCTED A RAID AROUND 6:30 AM
EASTERN TIME AND CAPTURED EL CHAPO.
AS MANY AS FIVE
INDIVIDUALS IN THE BUILDING WERE SHOT AND KILLED DURING THIS
RATE, AND IT IS UNCLEAR IF HE IS GOING TO BE PUT IN ANOTHER
MAXIMUM-SECURITY PRISON AND THEN PROCEED TO ESCAPE AS HE HAS DONE
TWICE ALREADY.
THE AUTHORITIES IN MEXICO ARE TRYING TO MAKE A POINT ABOUT
HOW THEY ARE NOT AS CORRUPT AS EVERYONE THINKS THEY ARE.
THE MARINES SPECIFICALLY IN MEXICO ARE SUPPOSED TO BE LESS
CORRUPTIBLE THAN OTHER
ORGANIZATIONS IN THE COUNTRY.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT THIS IS GOING TO DO IN TERMS OF HURTING
THE CARTELS IN MEXICO.
SPECIFICALLY THE CARTEL THAT HE FOUNDED IN 1980.
I CAN'T IMAGINE THE PRESIDENT ñ HE TWEETED THAT THEY CAUGHT EL
CHAPO - SERIOUSLY, YOU SERIOUSLY GOT HIM?
I WOULD HAVE BEEN TERRIFIED IF I WERE HIM TO TWEAK THAT AND THEN
FIVE MINUTES LATER HE DISAPPEARS DOWN A TUNNEL.
THEY DID NOT KILL HIM?
THEY DID NOT KILL HIM, WHICH I FIND VERY INTERESTING.
THE FIRST TIME HE WAS IN PRISON, WHICH I THINK WAS 1993,
HE WAS IMPRISONED FOR EIGHT YEARS AND THEN ESCAPED.
APPARENTLY DURING THOSE EIGHT YEARS HE WAS TREATED LIKE A KING
IN THE MAXIMUM-SECURITY PRISON, BECAUSE HE IS SO POWERFUL AND
HAS SO MUCH MONEY.
HE ESCAPED, THE FIRST TIME, THROUGH A LAUNDRY CART.
THE FIRST TIME HE DID IT, ñ THE SECOND TIME HE DID IT, HE WENT
THROUGH A HOLE IN HIS SHOWER,
VERY CASUALLY, AND TRAVELED ON A VEHICLE.
IT WAS A MOTORCYCLE RAID INTO A MILE-LONG TUNNEL, YOU
CANNOT WRITE THESE THINGS.
EACH OF THE WAYS HE ESCAPED WAS WRITTEN INTO A MOVIE.
HE GETS INSPIRED BY THE THEATRICAL ñ
THE THEATRICS THAT HE AND THAT LEAVING WITH.
IT HAS TO BE A MOVIE WHERE SOMEBODY ESCAPES WITH THE
LAUNDRY BASKET.
OBVIOUSLY THE ONE WHERE HE
ESCAPED THROUGH THE WALL IS OBVIOUSLY SHAWSHANK
REDEMPTION.
SHE IS A TERRIBLE PERSON, HE IS KILLED A LOT OF PEOPLE.
HE HAS A WEIRD SUPPORT IN HIS HOMETOWN, HE IS LIKE AN
ANTIHERO.
I THINK FEAR AND THE MONEY THAT HE HAS IS VERY INFLUENTIAL.
CAPTURING HIM WAS IMPORTANT, BECAUSE HE IS A BAD PERSON
AND SHOULD BE BROUGHT TO JUSTICE.
WHETHER OR NOT HE WILL BE BROUGHT TO JUSTICE IS
UNCLEAR TO ME.
WILL THIS SOLVE THE CARTEL SITUATION IN MEXICO?
NOT EVEN CLOSE.
IT IS LIKE THE SITUATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST, WE GO AFTER
MILITANT LEADERS, TAKE THEM OUT WITH A DRONE STRIKE, AND
THE WAR CONTINUES.
IS A FUNDAMENTAL ISSUE OF WHAT IS FUELING THESE CARTELS, SO WE
NEED TO FOCUS ON THAT AS WELL AS
BRING SOMEONE LIKE EL CHAPO TO JUSTICE.
I WONDER IF PEOPLE WILL THINK THAT HE HAS BEEN ARRESTED
AGAIN, PROBLEM SOLVED AND IT IS ALL OVER.
I DOUBT ANYONE COULD BE SAYING THAT, BUT YOU WOULD THINK
THAT WOULD BE THE RESPONSE.
NO LONGER DOES DONALD TRUMP HAVE AS WHERE PEOPLE ARE CARRYING
DRUGS LIGHTNING SPEED ACROSS THE
BORDER.
I FEEL LIKE THE RESPONSE WILL BE, LET'S NOT SAY ANYTHING
BECAUSE THIS DOES NOT HELP US NO MATTER WHICH WAY IT GOES.
THERE IS A THEORY THAT IF YOU EL CHAPO THE HEAD OFF OF
THE SNAKE, THE BODY DIES.
I THINK IT IS MORE OF A MORAL VICTORY, OR YOU FEEL LIKE YOU
HAVE ACTUALLY MADE SOME PROGRESS, WHEN YOU ARE
FIGHTING THESE ENDEMIC, ENTRENCHED CARTELS.
BUT IT IS A SYSTEMATIC PROBLEM.
TAKE THE POWER AWAY FROM THE CARTELS, THEY ARE THE NUMBER ONE
SOURCE OF HEROINE AND COCAINE IN THIS COUNTRY, AND ALSO
MARIJUANA, BUT THAT IS CHANGING BECAUSE MORE AND MORE STATES
ARE LEGALIZING MARIJUANA FOR MEDICINAL AND RECREATIONAL USE.
WHENEVER WE TALK ABOUT LEGALIZING DRUGS PEOPLE GET
TURNED OFF BY IT BECAUSE THEY THINK THAT WE ARE ADVOCATING
THE USE OF THOSE DRUGS, BUT IT IS ACTUALLY ABOUT LEGALIZING
IT AND HONING AND FOCUSING ON AN EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM.
KIND OF LIKE WHAT WE DID WITH TOBACCO COMPANIES TO
EDUCATE PEOPLE ABOUT THESE DRUGS.
BY THE WAY, LEGALIZING HEROIN DOES NOT MEAN THAT PEOPLE WHO
DID NOT DO HEROIN BEFORE WILL SUDDENLY BE INTERESTED IN IT.
WHEN WE MADE ALCOHOL IS LEGAL IN THIS COUNTRY, WE WAITED UNTIL
WE GOT RID OF ALL ORGANIZED
CRIME FOR WE LEGALIZED IT AGAIN, RIGHT?
YOU MAKE SOMETHING ILLEGAL, YOU CREATE.
IF YOU DON'T LEARN FROM HISTORY, YOU REPEAT IT ON AN
EXPONENTIAL LEVELS.
YOU CAN'T KEEP DRUGS OUT OF PRESENCE, YOU ARE NOT GOING
TO KEEP DRUGS OUT OF A COUNTRY.
THEY DON'T REALLY WANT TO.
IT'S ABOUT MAKING MONEY.
IT HAS ALSO LED TO THE CORRUPTION OF POLICE
CULTURE IN AMERICA.
THE CARTEL THAT DOES NOT WANT TO END THE WAR ON DRUGS IS
THE PRESENT CARTEL.