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" It&amp;#039;s hard to imagine that any drug lord could ever surpass the power and notoriety of Columbian drug lord Pablo &amp;quot;El Doctor&amp;quot; Escobar, but if there&amp;#039;s one, it would be Mexican drug kingpin Joaqu\u00ECn &amp;quot;El Chapo&amp;quot; Guzm\u00E0n, who was arrested in a joint operation by U.S. and Mexican authorities in Mexico on Saturday.  El Chapo might not be the subject of an Oliver Stone biopic or a Gabriel Garc\u00EDa M\u00E1rquez book or even inspiration for a Nas alias, but what Shorty Guzman lacks in cultural cachet, he makes up for in the reach of his empire and the scope of his influence.  So if you&amp;#039;re starting a career in film, narrative non-fiction, or rap, here are some reasons why you should consider dedicating your next project to El Chapo instead of Escobar. Influence: El Chapo&amp;#039;s Sinaloa cartel controls 25 percent of the illegal drugs entering the United States, raking in an estimated $3 billion a year. Last year, the Chicago Crime Commission named the kingpin &amp;quot;Public Enemy No. 1,&amp;quot; the first such designation since Al Capone.  Savvy: Late last year, Guillermo Vald\u00E9s, the former head of Mexico&amp;#039;s National Security and Investigation Center, compared the complexity of El Chapo&amp;#039;s business operation to that of UPS and Amazon. Notoriety: By many accounts, El Chapo became the de facto &amp;quot;World&amp;#039;s Most Wanted Man&amp;quot; after the death of Osama Bin Laden in 2011. There was a $7 million bounty on his head and there were even reports that in 2012 the Pentagon wanted to send Navy SEALs after El Chapo in a Bin Laden-like mission. Pathos: Part of Escobar&amp;#039;s draw is that he was known for being a man of the people. El Chapo, also known for his charisma, commanded the loyalty of everyone from farmers to politicians to a 300-person security detail, who never turned on him during his 13 years on the run. In the end, El Chapo was brought down by a wiretap on a cell phone.  By Decree: In 2011, the DEA said themselves that El Chapo&amp;#039;s power as a drug lord had surpassed that of Pablo Escobar. Was this simply some agency chest-puffing? Here was their rationale: &amp;quot;Pablo&amp;#039;s business in Colombia was based on the exportation of cocaine. With Chapo, he not only has the importation of cocaine, but marijuana, heroin, and methamphetamine, and he is exporting them not only to the U.S. but to Asia and Europe.&amp;quot; Reach: At the time of his arrest, El Chapo&amp;#039;s empire was believed to stretch just not to the U.S., Asia, and Europe, but Australia as well. Not just money, but power: Escobar was said to have as much as $3 billion compared to El Chapo&amp;#039;s $1 billion. But in 2011, Forbes ranked El Chapo #55 on their list of the World&amp;#039;s 70 Most Powerful People, ahead of several heads of state. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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