Is there anything more thrilling for the everyman than a glimpse into the life of a notorious druglord? With the popularity of shows like Narcos, it seems not. Now, Narcos director Chris Brancato is already itching to delve into the life of yet another druglord. This time, El Chapo real name Joaquin Guzman. The new programme, to be called Cartel, is being developed by cable TV channel, History.
To get you in the know ahead of this hot new series, read the incredible life of druglord El Chapo.
1957: El ChapoMexico"s most notorious druglord is born into a poor family in a rural area of La Tuna in Sinaloa, Mexico. He got a taste for narcotics from a young age his father was rumoured to have been an opium farmer on the sly, his day job being a cattle farmer. At home, he is often beaten by his father, protects his sisters from being beaten and receives emotional support from his mother. His mother has been described as "the only one who can change one of his decisions with a word." During his adolescence, Guzman earns himself the nickname El Chapo, Mexican slang for "shorty." (He was five foot six inches, and was stocky in build.)1960s: El Chapo starts marijuana farmEl Chapo drops out of school and starts his own marijuana plantation with four distant cousins, and earns enough from it to support his family financially. Eventually his father kicks him out of the house, so he goes to live with his grandfather. Following that, he leaves his hometown in search of greater opportunities organised crime. MORE CULTURE 1970s: El Chapo"s drug mule yearsEl Chapo is the mule from Sierra to major Mexican cities and the border. He develops a rep for being a ruthless man that won"t hesitate to kill over a late drug shipment.1980s: El Chapo takes over Sinaloa cartel"s Pacific operationsEl Chapo is introduced to the Sinaloa cartel"s leader, Miguel ngel Flix Gallardo (El Padrino), the godfather of the modern Mexican drug trade. He takes over operations for the Pacific coast. When El Chapo"s boss is eventually arrested for the 1985 murder of an American Drug Enforcement Agency agent, he becomes the new number one man of the Mexican drug world.Early 1990s: El Chapo builds his cartelEl Chapo builds his cartel while providing services for the poor, earning fierce loyalty. "You are financing everything: Baptisms. Infrastructure," a former Mexican ambassador said. "You are Santa Claus. And everybody likes Santa Claus."1992: El Chapo starts a war in TijuanaEl Chapo begins to expand into Tijuana, encroaching on the Arellano Felix brothers of the Tijuana cartel and setting off a deadly gang war. Guzmn"s cartel trafficks cocaine, heroin, marijuana, and meth. Eventually, the cartel is operating over five continents and grew to be the biggest drug operation in the world.
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June 1993: El Chapo"s first arrest... and escape El Chapo flees across Mexico to Guatemala, where he"s arrested and sentenced to 20 years for murder and trafficking. It is said he brought in cocaine and women behind bars through bribes and intimidation, turning the prison into a five-star hotel.El Chapo escapes from a maximum-security prison in a laundry cart. The escape costs him as much as $2.5 million, and results in the detention of 73 prison officials.Early 2000s: US government huntChapo becomes the primary drug target of the US government, who offers a $5 million reward for information. Chapo muscles into Tijuana and Gulf cartel territory, and open warfare breaks out.2004: El Chapo slips awayThe escalating violence renews attention from the US and Mexican authorities, which leads to at least two almost-captures of El Chapo. The Mexican army receives a tip-off that he is throwing a party. Despite being one of the most wanted men in the world, Guzmn reportedly threw a party "complete with cases of whiskey and a band, in a remote Mexican village to watch his 18-year-old girlfriend, Emma Coronel, win a local beauty contest," according to The Journal. It is also possible this was the date of their wedding. Helicopters arrive at a ranch that they suspect is owned by Chapo. "Every time he gets away, they tell us, "He got out the back door,"" said one American official. "U.S. officials have started to joke that there is no word for "surround" in Spanish."May 2008: revenge killings after El Chapo"s son is assassinatedEl Chapo"s son Edgar is killed in a parking lot shootout. The murder inspires a rash of revenge killings, and beheadings become a common sight throughout Sinaloa.200: El Chapo makes Forbes list Cartel members begin to use unlicensed drug-rehab centres as safe houses in Ciudad Juarez. In September, men stormed a rehab clinic in the city and murdered 17 patients one of several similar attacks rumoured to be the work of the Sinaloa cartel. Forbes lists him as one of the most powerful people in the world and owning a net worth of $1 billion.February 2014: El Chapo arrested. Again.After 13 years on the run, El Chapo is arrested in Mazatlan. "I killed two or three thousand," Chapo told law enforcement. "I"m a drug trafficker. I don"t kidnap or steal or extort or anything like that."July 2015: El Chapo escapes. Again.El Chapo escapes from a maximum-security prison through a tunnel under a shower. Chapo slips through an opening in his cells shower section, makes his way down a 30-foot ladder and travels through a tunnel network connecting his cell to a house that was still under construction about a mile away. The escape is estimated to have cost Guzmn $50 million in construction and bribes to prison officials. Chapo is now the target of a nationwide manhunt causing huge embarrassment for the government.
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January 2016: El Chapo captured after Sean Penn interviewChapo is captured in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, after months on the run in a dramatic episode involving a Mexican soap opera actress and US film star Sean Penn, who met with the drug boss in hiding. When Chapo was captured, the Mexican president posted the news on twitter. "Mission Accomplished," the President wrote. "We have him."
Reese Witherspoon was tired of Oscar winners competing to play the girlfriend
Take one look at Reese Witherspoon"s Instagram and it will give you all sorts of July 4th goals for next year"s celebrations.
The Oscar winner shared an adorable photo of her son Tennessee, 3, smiling hard as he rocked a pair of star-shaped, America-themed sunglasses (with blue lenses, natch) while sitting next to his mom, who sported a floral, striped number paired with red, blue, and silver beaded necklacesand a red lip.
"Good "ol #RedWhiteAndBlue! (Post-nap festivities ) Hope you had a relaxing holiday, folks!! #FourthOfJuly," Witherspoon captioned the shot. Little Tennessee sprang back to life for some Fourth of July fun after getting in one serious nap earlier in the day, which Witherspoon couldn"t help but capture for the "gram as well. In the shot, the shirtless blonde tot sleeps on his grandmother"s arm in red-and-blue swim trunks, as she smiles at his side in aviator shades and an American flag scarf tied around her neck.
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"Pre-BBQ nap with grandma. Hope y"all are enjoying the holiday! #July4th," the Draper James founder wrote. Prior to Tennessee"s nap, Witherspoon kicked off her Independence Day posting spree with a Boomerang shot that showed her waving a patriotic pinwheel and flashing a big smile in a red and white checkered shirt. "Happiest 4th of July, folks! #regram @draperjames," she wrote alongside it.
Secrets To Winning The Lottery: How To Pick MEGA MILLIONS Numbers
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Friday nights Mega Millions drawing gives lottery players a shot at the 10th largest jackpot in U.S. history.
Because no one has won a Mega Millions jackpot since March 8, the prize has steadily grown to an estimated $415 million. That makes it the largest jackpot since a $430 million Powerball prize won by a New Jersey family May 7.
The record prize was a $1.6 billion Powerball jackpot won in January by players in three states.
Winning numbers in the Mega Millions game will be drawn at 11 p.m. Eastern time. The odds of picking the correct numbers on five white b***s and one yellow ball are one in 259 million.
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WIMBLEDON (CNN) - When Roger Federer saved three match points against Marin Cilic in the Wimbledon quarterfinals Wednesday, you couldn"t help but wonder if destiny was on the seven-time champion"s side.
It didn"t take long to get the answer, and if you were one of the millions of Federer fans around the world, that answer wasn"t very appetizing.
Federer confronted a similarly towering, big-serving rival in the semifinals in Milos Raonic, and this time exited in five sets to quash the 34-year-old"s hopes -- not to mention those of his faithful, adoring supporters -- of becoming the first man to claim eight Wimbledon titles.
Whereas 2014 U.S. Open champion Cilic will feel he should have ousted Federer, the latter leaves SW19 thinking he should have prevailed against the sixth-seeded Raonic.
"This one clearly hurts because I felt I could have had it," he told reporters. "So close. It was really so, so close.
"There were opportunities there."
As is sometimes the case when Federer loses, he went from the court to the interview room almost immediately, not wanting to linger, even if he was at his second home.
"Yeah, so opportunities were all around the fourth set. I think I pushed him on a few service games to get the break. But somehow I couldn"t get it done."
Instead Raonic triumphed 6-3 6-7 (3-7) 4-6 7-5 6-3 to become the second Canadian to reach a grand slam singles final after Eugenie Bouchard did it here at Wimbledon two years ago.
Coming up short in his previous two grand slam semifinals -- once to Federer at SW19 in 2014 and to Andy Murray at the Australian Open this year as injury surfaced -- his time has arrived at the age of 25.
"Obviously what happened here two years ago, I was very disappointed with," Raonic told reporters. "Today I sort of persevered. I was sort of plugging away. I was struggling through many parts of the match. He gave me a little opening towards the end of the fourth. I made the most of it.
"The attitude kept me in the match. I think that"s what made the biggest difference. I was quite vocal, but I was always positive. I was always looking for a solution."
On Sunday, Raonic meets British second seed Murray, his conqueror in the final of the grass-court warmup at London"s Queen"s Club last month.
The 2013 champion brushed aside 2010 finalist Tomas Berdych 6-3 6-3 6-3 in Friday"s second semi.
Murray, unlike Raonic, is a veteran of grand slam finals but is desperate to try to better an unflattering 2-8 mark.
Those assembled on Centre Court witnessed history Friday: It was the first time Federer lost a Wimbledon semifinal in 11 attempts. It was probably the first time, too, that Federer called the trainer for two different issues.
At the end of the fourth set his right thigh needed attention, and then at 1-2 in the fifth he slipped -- a further anomaly -- almost rolling his left ankle and appearing to tweak his left knee.
Both incidents may have played a considerable part in the outcome.
Was the thigh bothering Federer in the last game of the fourth set, when he inexplicably dropped serve from 40-0, hitting consecutive double faults from 40-15? Federer, who also double faulted on break point in the first set, didn"t produce one double fault against Cilic.
When he returned to the court in the fourth game of the fifth following the slip, the first point he faced was a break chance for Raonic. Although he saved it, Federer was broken later in the game following a riveting exchange near the net that culminated with Raonic"s forehand passing shot.
Down 3-1, Federer never recovered and Raonic registered a second straight win over the 17-time grand slam winner.
"I had missed my chances by then already, enough," he said. "Maybe I could have stuck around better if I would have saved break points. Very disappointing half an hour there for me, getting broken at 6?5, getting broken again at 2?1, having the slip.
"Who knows what happens there. But it was a very disappointing end to the match for me."
Indeed. Federer led on Raonic"s booming serve four straight times in the fourth, including 15-40 at 2-2 and 0-30 at 5-5, unable to gain what would have been the terminal break. Overall, he went 1-for-9 on break points.
Despite Raonic mixing things up by serving to Federer"s body, his overall serving numbers -- 23 aces and 11 double faults -- suggest this wasn"t his greatest delivery day.
Carlos Moya, one of Raonic"s grand slam-winning coaches -- three-time Wimbledon champion John McEnroe, who came on board last month, is the other -- pointed to the conclusion of the fourth as the turning point.
"Roger, I would say he kind of opened the door for Milos to have the chance to come back -- and at this stage of the tournament you pay for that," Moya told a group of reporters. "That"s what I think because Milos was struggling a little bit on Roger"s serve and as soon as he had the chance there and he converted, in the fifth set he had a slight advantage (after) coming from behind and probably that game was key."
Entering Wimbledon, Federer perhaps would have been happy enough to make the semifinals given he skipped the French Open and other chunks of the campaign due to back and knee injuries.
But his good fortune against Cilic and the absence of nemesis Novak Djokovic in the second week -- he was upset by Sam Querrey in the third round -- might have got Federer thinking about landing an 18th major and first since beating Murray in the Wimbledon final four years ago. From Murray"s perspective, he"ll be relieved that Djokovic isn"t standing across the net Sunday.
Federer must now focus on new targets -- or pre-existing ones that had nothing to do with Wimbledon.
"It"s not my only reason why I play tennis, just to be clear, otherwise I"ll go in a freeze box now and come out before Wimbledon next year," he said. "I know Wimbledon is important, but it"s not everything, everything. There are a lot of things that I"d like to achieve besides winning Wimbledon."
One, presumably, is winning a first Olympic singles gold medal in Rio next month, having settled for silver against Murray at London 2012.
This year at Wimbledon, though, Murray or Raonic will be doing the winning on the day it matters most.
MSN: Fox News Obama Birth Certificate Boycott Report
Ivanka Trump for vice president isn"t such a bad idea after all, as she"s very familiar with working with her dad, Donald Trump, and she"s already captured the hearts of Americans, so why not? Oh, wait... she doesn"t have any political experience and since the same goes for her dad, that wouldn"t be the best pairing in one aspect, but a really great pairing as far as someone you could trust!
Ivanka a surprise asset
Ivanka Trump was a surprise asset and a welcomed side effect to Trump"s campaign. Anyone who adores their dad the way she does says a lot for both her personality and her father"s, who happens to beDonald Trump. So how did this Ivanka Trump for vice president thing get started?
Senator gives birth to idea
According to MSN News, it was SenatorBob Corker who suggested that Ivanka might be the best pick for Donald Trump, after Corker conveyed that he didn"t want to be considered any longer for Trump"s vice president. He said by far Ivanka is the best person for the job, listing all the qualities that the voters have already gotten acquainted with when it comes to Trump"s eldest daughter.
Ivanka"s brother gives thumbs up
Donald Trump"s son Eric showed absolutely no jealousy when speaking with Fox and Friends on Thursday morning about the idea of his sister on his dad"s ticket. Not only did Eric Trump agree, but he raved about his sister"s beauty and brains while on the curvy couch with the Fox and Friends trio.
Makes age limit by about six weeks
Ivanka turns 35 at the end of October, which means she makes the age deadline by about seven or eight days, Eric said to the co-hosts. You must be at least 35 to bevice president of the U.S. and Ivanka will fit that bill! Thenshe can helpher dad make the nation great again, or so the slogan goes.
Corker was just as eager to sell his thoughts on Trump"s daughter saying that Ivanka running with her dad probably "wouldn"t pass muster," but he said when it comes down to it, "Idon"t know that I"ve met a more composed, brilliant, beautiful-in-every-way person."
Stranger things have happened
It wasn"t even a year ago when most folks, included someTrump supporters,didn"t give him much chance for the real-estate mogul to make it to the White House. Yet here he stands today after beating out over a dozen serious Republican candidates. Trump has a very good chance to make it into the White House even if the polls say different.
He has started a movement and many who believe in the direction Trump is going are going to vote for him. But at the same time, many will exercise the privacy of that vote and won"t tell their friends and family because Trump is so controversial. People tend to either love him or hate him and when a supporter and an anti-Trump critic get together to discuss politics, it often does get heated.
While it"s probably not going to happen, Ivanka joining her dad as his vice president running matewould certainly soften the often harsh appearing campaign. She might really up the ante in the vote department for her dad.
Claim: Drug lord Joaquin Guzmn escaped from a Mexican prison for the third time.
Origin:On 31 January 2016, a fake news site published an article reporting that drug notorious lord Joaquin Guzmn (commonly known as "El Chapo"), who had just been re-arrested by Mexican authorities seven months after he escaped from a maximum security prison, had broken out of prison for a third time:
Early this morning, drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmn, head of the Sinaloa Cartel, escaped from the Altiplano maximum security prison once again.
This is now the third time Guzmn has escaped from a Mexican prison and brings into question Mexico"s ability to keep corruption out of its penal system.
In 1993, Guzmn was captured in Guatemala, extradited and sentenced to 20 years in prison in Mexico for murder and drug trafficking. In 2001, after bribing Mexican prison guards, he was able to escape from a federal maximum-security prison in 2001. On February 22nd, 2014, Guzmn was found inside his fourth-floor condominium in Mazatln, Sinaloa, and was captured without any gunshots being fired. Guzmn escaped from prison again on July 11th, 2015 by exiting through a tunnel that led to a nearby construction site. He was recaptured by Mexican marines following a shootout at Guzman"s hideout in Mexico on January 8th, 2016.
Although Guzmn has indeed escaped from custody in Mexico more than once, there was no truth to this story about his having broken out of the Altiplano maximum security prison once again.
An identical article was republished in July 2016 by the same fake news site, this time using trademarks illegally appropriated from a legitimate news organization (ABC News) in order to lure readers into clicking through to the underlying malware site and generate advertising revenue.
