Notorious drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman
who was arrested on February 22, 2014 told
authorities that he is just a farmer who makes 20,000 pesos ($1,500 U.S.
dollars) per year, according to a transcript of statements he gave the day after
he was arrested.
“I’m a farmer,” the 56-year-old told investigators when asked
his profession.
Guzman's Sinaloa cartel is Mexico's dominant drug trafficking
organization. It supplies an estimated 80% of the heroin, cocaine, marijuana
and methamphetamine (street value: $3 billion) that enters the Chicago region
each year.
Guzman’s bodyguard and secretary for the last few years told
a very different story after the two were captured in the seaside area of
Mazatlan on Feb. 22, Tim Johnson of McClatchy reports.
Carlos Manuel Hoo Ramirez, a former army commando known as El
Condor, told authorities that he and Guzman had been using tunnels and drainage
ditches to move between five safe houses in the city of Culiacan, the capital
of Sinaloa state, over the past three years.
Ramirez also reportedly said that Guzman always had two
planes on standby to fly him anywhere and switched his Blackberry cellphones
every week.
Guzman reportedly used top-of-the-line gadgetry to avoid
surveillance for more than a decade. His net worth is widely assumed to be $1
billion.
Nevertheless, El Chapo told authorities that he doesn't
"belong to any cartel or have any cartel,” that he doesn't own a phone or
email, and that he planted corn, sorghum and safflower.
He got $1 billion dollars from planting corn, sorghum and
safflower? Everybody should go farming lol.
REUTERS REPORTS
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