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Gutierrez, Nicolás “Nico,” 164, 176–78, 181, 183, 185, 188, 193–94, 197–207, 209, 211, 217, 217, 225–26, 228, 240–41, 248, 253–54, 259, 263, 273–74, 276, 281, 284, 288
Guzmán, Arturo (Chapo’s brother), 22
Guzmán, Edgar (Chapo’s son), 3–4, 98, 121, 231
Guzmán, Tocallo (Chapo’s son), 154
Guzmán Loera, Joaquín Archivaldo “El Chapo,” 1
agencies targeting, 76–77, 89–90, 95
arrest of 1993, 21–22
background of, 286
ball cap of, 233
bathtub tunnels and, 157, 201, 209–18, 221–27, 232–33, 238, 249–50, 252, 294, 311
birthday at La Tuna, 94
BlackBerry chain and, 65–72, 82–83, 90–92, 96–102, 107, 118–28, 137–43, 172, 301
business style and, 110, 113–14, 153–55
Cabo San Lucas raid and, 68–72
Canada and, 110–12, 127
capture mission in Culiacán, 193–207, 219–23, 240–54, 261–62, 268
capture mission in Mazatlán, 253–254, 263, 269, 271–84, 281–89, 291–93
capture mission planned, 95–96, 116, 141–42, 147–49, 151–53, 151–58, 158–68, 171–92
capture of 2016, 301–5
CIA and, 128–29
Cifuentes and, 127–30
Colt Super gun, 251–52
daughter Grisel and, 134
Diego flips inner circle member, 68
drug empire of, 22–24, 105, 110, 112–13
Duck Dynasty and, 148–59
escape of 2001, 24–26, 142–43
escape of 2015, 297–300
escape of, in Los Mochis, 302–3
extradited to US, 304–10
fame of, 5, 9–11, 29–30, 82, 92
FBI and, 127–29
film and, 116, 132–34, 300
Forbes and, 42
Gallardo and, 22, 79
go bag and, 238
imprisonments and, 24, 292–93, 304–5
indictments in US, 99, 307, 308–9
leaks to, 155–56, 165–67, 185
lieutenants and, 23, 114, 122, 163
misspellings and, 272–73
money laundering and, 47, 50–57
NADDIS file on, 29
names of, 1–2, 5–6, 206, 209, 213, 240
narcocorridos and, 1, 5–7
pattern of life and, 125–26, 137–39, 158, 160, 229
photo of, 92
Rolling Stone and, 301
sons and, 3–4, 99, 135, 148, 231
Torres takedown and, 59, 62, 65–66, 101
tunnels and, 143–45
US Attorney’s Offices and, 108–9
violence and, 107, 118–19, 181, 292–93
wife Griselda and, 134, 232
women and, 115–17
Guzmán López, Grisel (Chapo’s daughter), 134, 232
Guzmán López, Joaquin “Güero” (Chapo’s son), 134–35, 148–50, 154, 232, 305
Guzmán López, Ovidio “Ratón” (Chapo’s son), 134–35, 148–50, 154, 232, 240, 253, 305
Guzmán Salazar, Iván Archivaldo “Chapito” (Chapo’s son), 98–99, 102, 135, 254, 256, 258, 305
Guzmán Salazar, Jesús Alfredo (Chapo’s son), 59, 98–99, 135, 255–56, 258, 305
Hells Angels, 111
heroin, 23
Herrera Esperanza, Jesus “Hondo,” 111–12, 235–36
Hogan, Brandt, 11, 264, 266, 282
Holder, Eric, 294–95
Hollywood, 133
Homeland Security Investigations, US Department of (HSI), 66, 151–52, 212
El Paso Field Office, 89–90, 96, 99, 108–10, 122–23, 127, 135–36, 143, 194, 195, 201, 202, 205, 228, 236, 237–38, 240, 247, 253, 254, 257
San Diego Tunnel Task Force, 144
US attorneys and, 108–9
Honduras, 181
Hoo Ramírez, Carlos Manuel “Condor,” 119–23, 125–26, 130, 136–38, 156, 163, 221, 223, 230–31, 236, 238, 240, 249, 252–53, 257–58, 269, 271–73, 287–88, 300, 306, 321
Hoyos, Los. See tunnels
HSBC, 40
Humo, El, 75
India, 23
Inge (ingeniero), 117–19
intelligence community, 119, 131
Interpol, 299
Inzunza Inzunza, Gonzalo “Macho Prieto,” 145–48, 175
Iranian gangs, 111
Iusacell, 126
Jaguares de Culiacán, Los (band), 2
Jalisco ranch, 10, 21
James Bond tunnel, 143–44
Jardines del Humaya cemetery, 121
Jenkins, Fred, 17–19
Jenkins, Tom, 19
Jesús María zone, 155
Johnson, Leroy “El Roy,” 157–60, 164, 177–79, 183, 187–88, 193–94, 197–201, 211, 217, 219, 230, 240– 41, 243, 248, 253–54, 258–59, 262–63, 271–73, 280, 284
Jones, Nick, 32–33
Juárez, 158
Kansas Highway Patrol, 13, 16–20
Kansas State Troopers, 12, 16
Kansas State University, 13
Kava, 144–45, 148, 154, 217, 223, 258–59, 277, 298
Kennedy, Robert F., 294
Knights Templar Cartel. See Caballeros Templarios
Kommander, El, 321
La Cienéga airstrip, 154
Laden, Osama bin, 308
La Paz air base, 70, 166, 167, 177–86, 319
La Tuna, Mexico, 6, 94, 132, 306
Leonhart, Michele, 21, 151–52, 293–95
Lic-F. See López Núñez, Dámaso
Lic (licenciado), 100, 319–20
Lic Oro, 101, 116
Lincoln County, Kansas, 13–14
Lizzy (madam), 116
Location One, 226–27
Location Two, 221–25, 227, 251
Location Three, 206, 219–24, 230, 237–39, 251, 257
Location Four, 219
Location Five “El 5,” “La Piscina,” 206, 209–10, 213, 217–18, 222, 228–29, 232–33, 235
Loera de Guzmán, Consuelo (Chapo’s mother), 306
López Núñez, Dámaso “El Licenciado,” “Lic-F,” 24, 142–44, 155, 165–67, 185–86, 199, 205, 236, 250, 252–53, 257–59, 262–63, 306n
López Osorio, Edgar Manuel “Picudo,” “El 70,” 70, 83, 107, 142, 154, 225, 227–30, 236–37, 240–53, 306, 311
López Pérez, Griselda (Chapo’s second wife), 134, 231–33
Los Alegres del Barranco (band), 155
Los Angeles, 50, 105
Los Angeles Times, 10
Los Mochis, Sinaloa, 107, 155, 172, 194, 199, 301–3, 314
Lucia (cook), 201, 287
Luciano, Lucky, 22
Luis, “Lucho” (Chapo’s cousin), 181
Lynch, Loretta, 307
Macho Prieto. See Inzunza Inzunza, Gonzalo
Maestro (pilot), 153
Malverde, Jesús, 121
marijuana, 23, 31–32, 98, 102, 145, 235
marines. See Secretaría de Marina-Armada de México
Marsh, Warne, 205
Mayo, El. See Zambada García, Ismael
Mazatlán, 113, 155, 193, 227–28, 249–54, 263, 269, 271–84, 311, 313–14
McAllister, Thomas, 76–77, 152, 164–65, 290, 293–94
McKenzie, Kenny, 53–56
McMahon, Jim, 11
Medellín, Colombia, 42, 121, 127
Mercantile Bank, 40
Mérida soccer team, 5
Mesa Police Department, 4, 27, 31
Metallica (band), 5, 13
methamphetamine, 5, 23, 38, 155, 222, 225, 239, 243
Metropolitan Correction Center (MCC, Manhattan), 308–10
Mexican Army. See Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional
Mexican Attorney General’s Office (PGR, La Procuraduría General de la República), 78, 259, 292, 300, 323
Mexico, violence in, 65, 78, 86
Mexico City, 10, 30, 39–41, 59, 145
application for position in, 66–68
> earthquakes, 114
money from Canada and, 43–56
move to, 75–77, 79–81
return to, after Chapo’s capture, 290–91
Mexico City International Airport, 77–78
Mexico-Guatemala border, 23
Miller, Neil, 122–23, 126, 135, 152, 194, 202, 228, 254, 268, 290
Miramar, Hotel, 269, 271, 275–84, 287–88, 294, 311
mirrors, 72, 93, 97, 100, 102, 109, 122, 126, 152, 254, 320
money brokerage and laundering, 31, 38–57, 60, 75, 99, 255
Montreal, 112
Moreno, Nazario “El Más Loco,” 186
Motor (SEMAR officer), 229
Nana (code for Chapo), 240, 320
narcocorridos, 2–3, 5–7, 25, 27–29, 71, 311–12, 320–21
narco juniors, 3, 5, 6, 31–32, 99, 321
narco subs, 23
Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Information System (NADDIS), 29
Naris (courier), 116–16, 139–40, 156–57, 178, 189, 203, 205–7, 209, 221–24, 227, 230–32, 235, 251, 268
National Action Party, 299
National Football League (NFL), 31
National Human Rights Commission, 305
Navarro, Pedro “Bugsy,” 30–35, 37–38, 51
Negro, El. See Aponte Gómez, Manuel Alejandro
Netherlands, 110
New York City, 31, 50, 105
“Niño de La Tuna, El” (narcocorrido), 5, 29, 73, 237, 277
Nogales, Mexico, 38, 98, 143–45
Nueva Generación, La (New Generation) 30–32, 37–38
Obama, Barack, 151, 294, 307
Office devices, 96–100, 129, 138
Office-1, 96, 98, 109, 126, 135, 240
Office-2, 109
Office-3, 96, 109, 236
Office-4, 109, 126–27
Office-5, 90, 92–94, 96, 97, 100–101, 106–7, 109, 110, 139
Office-6, 109, 115, 140
Office-10, 126
Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force “La Nueva Generación” investigation, 30
Osawatomie State Hospital, 14
Oscar (accountant), 154
Osorio Chong, Miguel Ángel, 307
Otiz, Gerardo, 321
Palma, Héctor Luis “El Güero,” 190
Panama, 105, 153
Panama City, 37–47
Panchito. See Cifuentes Villa, Hildebrando Alexánder
Patagonia, 299
pattern of life, defined, 125n, 321
Pattonville, Kansas, 11–13, 17
Pattonville’s Firehouse Pub, 17–19
Payton, Walter, 11
Peña Nieto, Enrique, 304, 306, 308
Penn, Sean, 300, 301
Pepe (Colombia operator), 97
Perez, Marco, 145–47
Peru, 58, 77
PF. See Federal Police
PGP-encrypted smartphones, 111
PGR. See Mexican Attorney General’s Office
Philippines, 110
Phoenix, 2–3, 110
Phoenix Field Division, 247
Phoenix Police Department, 28
Phoenix Task Force, 2, 98, 118, 310
Pichis or Pichiguila. See Duck Dynasty
Picudo. See López Osorio, Edgar Manuel
Pinguino, 154
Pinto (Culiacán worker), 154
plazas, 10, 22
pool house, defined, 32
Posadas Ocampo, Cardinal Juan Jésus, Archbishop of Guadalajara, 9–11
Potrillo, El (informant), 85–86
Primera División soccer team, 5
Proceso magazine, 247
Puente Grande (Federal Social Readaption Center No. 2), Chapo escape of 2001 from, 24–25, 83, 96, 142, 143, 298
Puerto Peñasco takedown (2013), 145–48, 247
Quantico, 19, 60, 67
Querétaro soccer team, 5
Raul (Panama operator), 153
RBC bank, 40
“Regreso del Chapo, El” (narcocorrido), 25
Reina del Sur, La (telenovela), 116, 300
Reyes Aragones, Raul “La Furia,” 161–64, 166, 172–77, 182, 191, 229, 289, 300
Reyna Marquez, Antonio “Garra,” 182, 190–91, 196–98, 200, 203, 209–12, 214, 220, 254, 258–59, 262–63, 288
Robles, Ricardo, 51–53, 57, 62
Rolling Stone, 300–301
roving wire intercept, 202
Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), 110
Salazar Hernández, María Alejandrina (Chapo’s first wife), 98
Salcido Uzeta, Manuel “Cochiloco,” 190
Salinas de Gortari, Carlos, 10
Saludos a Generente, 134
Sánchez López, Lucero “La Diputada,” 299
San Diego, 33–34, 105, 143–44
San Diego Field Division, 33
San Diego Police Department, 33–34
San Diego Tunnel Task Force, 144
San Luis Potosí ambush, 66
Second-Tier, 100, 109–10, 114–16, 119, 122–23, 126–27, 129–30, 136–40, 202, 228, 238
Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional (SEDENA, Mexican Army), 130–32, 141, 155–56, 227, 322, 324, 387
Secretaría de Marina-Armada de México (SEMAR, Mexican marines), 141, 152, 159, 161–67, 171–91, 193, 196–200, 202, 204, 207, 210–17, 220–25, 229–32, 235–63, 271–85, 287–89, 291, 300, 301–2, 323
SEDENA. See Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional
SEMAR. See Secretaría de Marina-Armada de México
Señor, El, 90–91, 101, 102, 137, 156, 318
September 11, 2001, attacks, 89, 91
“Se Quedaron a Tres Pasos” (narcocorrido), 71
Sergio (adviser), 155–56, 199–200
sicarios, 86, 307
Sierra Madre, 26, 30, 118, 119, 299, 301, 323
Sinaloa, 2, 3, 23, 71, 83, 118, 121, 127, 300, 313–14
Sinaloa Attorney General’s Office, 24, 142–43
Sinaloa Cartel, 5, 9–11, 22–24, 26, 29, 42, 62, 75, 76, 101, 105, 143–46
Sinaloa State Police, 30
Sixto (pilot), 90, 91–93, 97
Snake (DEA agent), 19
Spain, 40
Special Operations Division (SOD), 119, 220, 291, 293
St. Louis, 31
straw purchases, 99
Suegro, El (father-in-law), 101, 102
Super Bowl, 11
Super Troopers (film), 28
Tandy, Karen, 21
Tapia, Roberto, 5, 321
Team America, Operation, 51, 67, 92, 101
Telcel, 100, 126
telecommunication service providers, 120, 126
Tigres del Norte, Los (band) 320
Tigre (SEMAR lieutenant), 262–63, 268, 273–80, 285, 287–88
Tijuana, 2, 72–74, 98, 144, 154
Tijuana Cartel, 9–10
Tocallo, 98, 102, 117–19, 149, 154
Tocayo (namesake), 98
Top-Tier, 125–26, 130, 136–37, 143, 152, 157, 160, 162–63, 177, 185, 189–90, 194–95, 199–201, 228, 237–38, 250, 254, 259, 262–63, 268–69, 271–72, 278
Toro, El. See Diaz, Julio
Toronto, 112
Torres-Leon, Jasmine Elena, 59
Torres-Ramos, Carlos, 58–62, 65, 101
Trafficker Directed Funds (TDF), 52, 60
traps, 31–32, 54
Trump, Donald, 308
Tucson, 110
tunnels, 143–45, 154, 156–57, 258
Turbo (Chapo lieutenant), 113, 139, 153
Tweety (Bugsy’s right-hand man), 34–35, 38
UPS, 31
Usacell (mirror), 126
US attorneys, 108, 118, 290–91
US Customs and Border Protection, 144
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 144–45
US Marine Corps, 19
US Marshals Service, 157
US-Mexico border, 23, 143
US-Mexico Transboundary Agreement, 69
Vago, 106–7
Vancouver, Canada, 50, 11
1–12, 236
Venezuela, 23, 92, 97
Vero (nanny), 287
Villa, Pancho, 25
Walmart, 74, 139–40
Washington State, 110
WhatsApp, 102
Winnipeg, 112
wire intercepts, 32, 119
World Trade Center bombing (1993), 308
Yousef, Ramzi, 308
Zambada García, Ismael “El Mayo,” 105, 117, 146, 183–85, 187, 189–90, 197
Zapata, Jaime, 66–68, 87
Zetas Cartel, 65–66, 75, 142, 240, 323–24
Zona Rosa neighborhood, 85, 87
Zorro (SEMAR lieutenant), 223, 225, 229, 239–40, 251, 271
Photos Section
Chapo Guzmán after his first arrest in June 1993.
AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes
Boarding the DEA Learjet en route to Mexico City in June 2010, carrying the $1.2 million in cash inside FedEx boxes.
Image courtesy of the author
Diego sitting with Mercedes Chavez-Villalobos and her associates at La Rosita restaurant in Panama, June 2009. I took this photo surreptitiously during the undercover operation.
Image courtesy of the author
With the seized 2,513 kilograms of cocaine in Guayaquil, Ecuador, in November 2010.
Image courtesy of the author
Chapo in his signature black baseball cap, toting an AR-15 outside a Mexican ranch several years after his first prison escape in 2001.
Source unknown
The photo found in a BlackBerry seized at Chapo’s mansion in Cabo San Lucas after his escape from Mexican and DEA authorities in February 2012.
Image courtesy of the author
The card—headed by his initials, J.G.L.—that Chapo sent with flowers to his numerous girlfriends in Culiacán on El Día del Amor y la Amistad (Valentine’s Day).
Image courtesy of the author
The Chicago Crime Commission names El Chapo Public Enemy Number One, replacing Al Capone, in February 2013.
AP Photo/M. Spencer Green
A diagram I created to show the communication structure of Chapo’s mirror devices.
Image courtesy of the author
Video of Chapo interrogating a man tied to a post under a palapa.
Source unknown
An overhead shot of Duck Dynasty showing further construction: multiple palapas, a house, and a swimming pool.
Imagery © 2017, Digital Globe; map data © 2017 Google, INEGI
Packages of cocaine stored in the tunnel at Safe House 3 along with fake plastic bananas used for shipping the drugs.