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El Chapo

Crime

Brooklyn Bound

The fight to extradite El Chapo.

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Previously: The Longform Guide to El Chapo

Dwyer Murphy Guernica Jun 2016 20min Permalink

Crime Media Movies & TV

The Go-Between

Kate del Castillo, the actress who brought Sean Penn to Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, tells her side of the story.

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Previously: The Longform Guide to El Chapo

Robert Draper New Yorker Mar 2016 25min Permalink

Crime World

El Chapo Speaks

A secret meeting, and short Q&A, with the drug lord while he was still on the lam.

Sean Penn Rolling Stone Jan 2016 45min Permalink

Crime

Devils, Deals and the DEA

How agents took down Mexico’s most vicious drug cartel and, in the process, gave El Chapo the opportunity to create an empire.

David Epstein The Atlantic, ProPublica Dec 2015 45min Permalink

Crime

Underworld

“Super tunnels” are a speciality of the Sinaloa drug cartel – and its leader, El Chapo.

Monte Reel New Yorker Aug 2015 20min Permalink

Crime World

The Hunt for El Chapo

How the world’s most notorious drug lord was captured.

Previously: Patrick Radden Keefe on the Longform Podcast.

Patrick Radden Keefe New Yorker May 2014 40min Permalink

Crime

The Sinaloa Cartel’s 90-Year-Old Drug Mule

How Leo Sharp got busted.

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Previously: The Longform Guide to Cocaine.

Sam Dolnick New York Times Magazine Jun 2014 25min Permalink