Whoever hasn’t heard of El Chapo needs to go listen to Rick Ross.  There is plenty of references about the world’s most wanted drug lord in rap music. On Saturday whole bunch of soldiers marched into the Mazatlán, Mexico, a beach resort known as a hangout for drug traffickers as for its seafood and surf.
He has been hiding for 13 years since his last prison break. Back when he escaped in a laundry cart. With an army of guards and lethally enforced loyalty, he reigned over a worldwide, multibillion-dollar drug empire that supplied much of the cocaine and marijuana to the United States despite a widespread, years long manhunt by American and Mexican forces. The bounty on his head rose to $7 million.

He was taken into custody without firing a single shot. Mexico’s attorney general, Jesús Murillo Karam, said a later forensic exam made it “100 percent” certain the man was Mr. Guzmán; the tests were done to avoid the kind of embarrassment Mexican officials faced in June 2012 when they announced the arrest of Mr. Guzmán’s son, only to later discover it was not him.

The worrying part is if the drug trafficking will continue to run smoothly without him or not? It is possible that the empire will find a new leader and carry on the transition but who knows. The government also fears that killing the biggest drug lord might also unleash more violence and crime.

There was a lot more seized with his arrest: 97 large guns, 36 handguns, 2 grenade launchers, a rocket launcher, and 43 vehicles, several of them armored. That is the length he went to protect himself from the law. Mr. Murillo Karam said Mr. Guzmán had seven houses, with reinforced steel doors and connected by tunnels that allowed him time to escape just ahead of the police.

The D.E.A. who assisted Mexican agents in an upper-class neighborhood of Culiacán, Mexico, the Sinaloa State capital, arrested several security people for Mr. Guzmán and discovered the tunnels, with openings to them in the showers of several homes. The US security official said: “We’ve been actively tracking him for five weeks. Because of that pressure he fled in the last couple of days to Mazatlan. He had a small contingent with him.”

He has been listed as one of the most powerful men in the world who made a fortune off his drug empire. Back in 2012, Colombian police seized 116 properties worth $15 million they said were bought for Guzmán. As Kanye would say “That Sh*t Cray!”