Sinaloa Cartel Boss El Chapo Reveals What He's Thinking as He Makes Infamous Prison Escape Through a Narco Tunnel

Sinaloa Cartel boss Joaquin Archivaldo Guzman Loera, also known as "El Chapo," has opened up about his sensational escape from the Altiplano maximum security prison in Mexico state through a narco tunnel.

According to Infobae, author and criminologist Monica Ramirez Cano has recently tweeted about his brief conversation with the Sinaloa Cartel boss, who discussed his escape from Altiplano prison.

In one of his many talks with the Mexican drug kingpin when he was still imprisoned in Mexico, Cano asked El Chapo what had been his best escape, to which he answered: "This last one," referring to his breakout from Altiplano prison.

"I was very stressed all the time. But I have always behaved well. I have behaved well, miss," El Chapo reportedly said in a kind tone that seemed to distinguish his dealings with women.

Throughout his bloody career, El Chapo broke out of two Mexican prisons to continue his reign as head of the Sinaloa cartel. Cano also asked El Chapo if he considered escaping twice as "behaving well." The Mexican drug lord said "no," but admitted that he "didn't want to be extradited."

When she asked the Sinaloa Cartel boss what he was thinking inside the narco tunnel as he escaped, El Chapo noted: "Of course, don't get caught!"

The author of the "Las Puertas del Infierno" or "The Gates of Hell," also a psychologist, tried to learn about what's inside the heads of the most famous criminals in Mexico in the past years, and she had the opportunity to work closely with El Chapo as she made his criminal profile.

Aside from El Chapo, other drug traffickers she had interviewed were Los Zetas cartel leader Miguel Angel Treviño Morales, alias "Z-40"; Los Caballeros Templarios cartel head Servando Gomez Martínez, alias "La Tuta"; and dozens of serial killers.

How El Chapo of Sinaloa Cartel Escaped Using a Narco Tunnel

El Chapo was captured for the first time in 1993 in Guatemala. He was then extradited to Mexico and sentenced to 20 years for drug trafficking and murder.

The Sinaloa Cartel boss spent eight years in the Puente Grande maximum security prison in Jalisco state until he made his first escape by hiding in a laundry cart in 2001 with the help of prison officials he had corrupted. El Chapo became a fugitive for 13 years but was arrested again in 2014 in Sinaloa state and transferred to the Altiplano prison.

The following year, he escaped again through a hole under his cell's shower and then went down to a ladder before hopping on the back of a waiting modified motorcycle mounted on rails and speeding through a mile-long narco tunnel to freedom.

However, El Chapo was captured for a third time in 2016 and extradited to the United States the following year. He was sentenced to spend the rest of his days in the ADX Florence "supermax" prison in Colorado after being sentenced to life imprisonment in 2019 on multiple drug-related charges.

Engineer of Sinaloa Cartel Narco Tunnels

The Sinaloa Cartel built the first cross-border narco tunnel in 1989. Since then, the drug cartel has refined the art of underground construction and used these narco tunnels more effectively than any criminal group in history.

Officials have reportedly discovered 181 illicit passageways under the U.S.-Mexico border until 2014. They said most of them have been short and like narrow "gopher holes," just enough for a person to crawl through.

Federal agents noted that the Sinaloa Cartel also specializes in what they called "super tunnels." Authorities said a single "super tunnel" takes several months and over a million dollars to build as it has electric lights, elevators, and ventilation ducts, with disguised entry and exit shafts.

They said these passageways could also reach as deep as seventy feet and were usually tall enough for an adult to walk or ride through. This was the method that El Chapo left to the Sinaloa Cartel for drug trafficking to evade law enforcement.

Mexican and U.S. authorities have identified Jose Sanchez Villalobos as the mastermind behind the design of the Sinaloa Cartel narco tunnels. Sanchez was reportedly the builder of the narco tunnels linking Tijuana on the Mexican side and San Diego on the U.S. side.

He was released from prison in the U.S. last year after serving a 10-year term for a drug distribution conspiracy. Sanchez, also one of the Sinaloa Cartel's high-level managers, pleaded guilty in December 2020 to planning, financing, and supervising the construction of several cross-border tunnels from 2010 to 2012.

He also pleaded guilty to overseeing the cartel's operation as smuggling conduits. He was reportedly responsible for transporting drugs in Mexico's states of Baja California and Jalisco and managing marijuana transport from southern Mexico to northern Mexico.

Sanchez was also reported to have overseen two narco tunnels built in the San Diego area to transport drugs. He was also said to have been responsible for deciding who could use the said tunnels for a fee.

Sanchez was arrested in Mexico in 2012 and spent about eight years in custody there. He then spent the rest of his sentence in San Diego after being extradited to the U.S. to face charges.

"El Chapo" is known for his ingenious ways of transporting drugs, including creating and using narco tunnels for his drug empire. He had also used the narco tunnels to evade capture and law enforcement officials for three decades. The Mexican drug kingpin has earned the reputation of being the "Lord of the Tunnels" for his preference to use the underground.

He was compared to early Juarez Cartel boss Amado Carillo Fuentes, who was dubbed as "Lord of the Skies." Carillo Fuentes was known to transport drugs by using planes.

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Written by: Mary Webber

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