Washington Post: ‘El Chapo,’ Wanted Drug Lord, Grows Stronger In Mexico’s Sierra Madre

SANTIAGO DE LOS CABALLEROS, Mexico ? He was the barefoot son of a peasant who became one of the richest moguls in the world, a billionaire entrepreneur with a third-grade education. He controls a vast drug distribution empire that spans six continents, but he still carries his own AK-47. He is generous and feared, a mass murderer and a folk hero. He is a ghost who has become a legend.

In the fifth year of a terrible war in Mexico that has exhausted the military, consumed the presidency of Felipe Calderon and left more than 43,000 dead in drug violence, Joaquin ?El Chapo? Guzman, the founder of the Sinaloa cartel, reigns supreme.

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