Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera, Mexican Drug Lord and Forbes’ Billionaire

nt_chapoJoaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera, the alleged head of Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa cartel has been on the run since escaping from prison in 2001. Life on the lam has clearly been good to the diminutive “Shorty,” who has, according to Forbes, amassed a fortune of an estimated $1 billion; placing him at position number 701 of the richest people in the world. [CNN]

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C.S. Magor is the editor-in-chief and a reporter at large for We Interrupt and Uberreview. He currently resides in the Japanese countryside approximately two hours from Tokyo - where he has spent the better part of a decade testing his hypothesis that Japan is neither as quirky nor as interesting as others would have you believe.
4 Comments on this post.
  • Van
    19 March 2009 at 10:31 pm
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    Hi Chris,

    cool story

  • Van
    19 March 2009 at 5:31 pm
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    Hi Chris,

    cool story

  • C. S. Magor
    20 March 2009 at 2:39 am
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    Thanks van!

  • C. S. Magor
    19 March 2009 at 9:39 pm
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    Thanks van!

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